WASHINGTON -- A friend of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot and killed early Wednesday morning by an FBI special agent in Orlando, Fla., after lunging with a knife and injuring the agent during an interview about the April ...
WASHINGTON -- With Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker set to be grilled by senators Thursday at her Commerce secretary confirmation hearing, Bill Daley feels her pain.
Daley, a son and brother of Chicago mayors, faced his own confirmation hearing...
WASHINGTON -- Committee approval of a sweeping Senate immigration overhaul has put pressure on the House, where Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, and top leaders have been pushing a bipartisan group of lawmakers to produce their own bill.
House ...
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Latin America is fond of carving itself up into an alphabet soup of regional trading blocs and political configurations. There's the CELAC, UNASUR, Mercosur, ALBA and the Andean Community, just to name a few.
But the 2-year-...
WASHINGTON -- Anthony Foxx avoided the controversy of other Capitol Hill hearings Wednesday, receiving a mostly warm reception from senators who considered his nomination to become transportation secretary.
Foxx probably will get easy ...
ST. LOUIS -- Drugs developed to treat Alzheimer's disease have failed to stop its progression in people experiencing mental decline. The challenge for scientists is to find out if the disease can be identified and treated before people show any ...