The congressman's large intestine was damaged during gallbladder surgery and the complications led him to be hospitalized, a Pennsylvania congressman and longtime friend said.

U.S. Rep. John Boozman is the ninth Republican to say he's going to make a go for two-term Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln's seat, but a recent survey shows the congressman isn't fighting for elbow room.

Obama administration launches plan to limit Chicago-area locks and gates from opening to prevent the giant carp from dominating the Great Lakes.

The Obama administration argued premiums Monday while House Republicans argued process as both sides girded for what looks like three weeks of posturing before televised bipartisan health care talks commence Feb. 25.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has 10 days by law to schedule an election to replace the 35-year lawmaker.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said those in Congress ?will miss the tenacity and passion that he brought to his job every day.?

The department said in a memo that it destroyed or deleted all of the copies of the assessment after an internal review found it violated intelligence gathering guidelines about "protest groups which posed no threat to homeland security."

The letter is penned by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA).  

New York Mayor Bloomberg raises doubts about federal government's readiness to pay for a trial of Sept. 11 suspects in Manhattan.

Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. John Murtha, the first veteran of the Vietnam war and one of the most powerful lawmakers in Congress, died Wednesday morning at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA, after complications from gallbladder surgery. Murtha was 77.

New York Gov. David Paterson's office made the rounds to major news outlets Monday to shoot down rumors the governor is planning to step down in the wake of a "bombshell" New York Times story about to be published that is so scandalous he can't politically survive it.

Republicans say they have no idea yet who will be invited to join President Obama later this month to discuss health care reform but they have plenty of ideas if Obama is sincere about wanting to work together. 

A North Carolina judge wants security officers to accompany an ex-John Edwards aide as he goes to retrieve a sex tape of his former boss.

A new Climate Service agency will operate with NOAA's National Weather Service and National Ocean Service, the Commerce Department announced Monday.

The United States and the European Union on Monday offered a condemnation against Iran's government for human rights violations, saying intimidation, detentions, show trials and executions of presidential election protesters defies international standards.

The first lady wants to change the way millions of Americans eat, exercise, look and feel.

President said he has not ruled out a New York federal court trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

It has become widely know that Scott Lee Cohen was accused of abusing his ex-wife and holding a knife to the throat of an ex-girlfriend.

A Democrat close to the situation says the meetings included discussions about whether he would resign or announce he will not run.

In an interview Sunday with CBS' Katie Couric, Obama said he wants Republicans "to put their ideas on the table."

Much attention has been given to President Obama's persistent use of "I" when giving speeches to sell his administration's agenda. Is he taking responsibility -- or, as his critics say, is he still in campaign mode? FoxNews.com is tracking the president's speeches all this month and will report back after each to see whether The "I's" Have It.

Millions more Americans are facing financial security as a result of stabilizing home prices, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Sunday, even though only about 66,000 people have benefited from permanent mortgage loan modifications aimed to prevent foreclosure, a figure that has resulted in a House panel investigation.

President Obama's homeland security adviser accused Republicans of using a "500-mile screwdriver" for their criticism of the administration's handling of the prosecution of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

The following is a transcript of an interview with former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin by FoxNews.com's Judd Berger at the National Tea Party Convention on Feb. 6. in Nashville.

Sarah Palin said President Obama needs to take a "do-over" on his choice for White House chief of staff, pressing Saturday for Rahm Emanuel's firing after he used the word "retarded" to lambast a group of Democrats in a strategy session last year.

Below is a transcript of Fox News Sunday's Feb. 7 interview with former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. 

Sarah Palin has President Obama in her sights, telling FoxNews.com she "would be willing" to challenge him in the 2012 presidential race.

Even after Moody's warned the U.S. could lose it's AAA rating for hiking its debt limit to $14.3 trillion, the treasury secretary says that's not going to happen.

The Pennsylvania Democratic Committee on Saturday endorsed Sen. Arlen Specter over Rep. Joe Sestak for the Senate nomination, despite Specter's recent conversion to the Democrats after 30 years as an elected Republican.

Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu has been elected mayor of New Orleans, replacing term-limited Ray Nagin and becoming the majority-black city's first white mayor since 1979

Sarah Palin is predicting a good year for conservative candidates for public office, saying the policies of President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress will be short-lived.

Sarah Palin goes after how the president wants to prosecute terrorists on "Fox News Sunday."

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was caught on video Friday pushing his stranded car in the monster snowstorm pummeling the Mid-Atlantic

When it comes to showing support for the Indianapolis Colts or the New Orleans Saints, who are meeting in Sunday's Super Bowl, some congressmen are putting their money where their mouth is.

Politics competed for attention with Carnival parades and Super Bowl party preparations Saturday as New Orleans voters made their choice to succeed Mayor Ray Nagin.

Five years after his death and 22 years after his presidency ended, President Reagan's leadership style and policies are still influencing the political debate in 2010.

President Obama on Saturday sought to assure despondent Democrats he would not abandon his commitment to overhauling health care and would work to counter GOP challenges to their congressional dominance.

In his first year as president, Barack Obama had 47 brief Q & A encounters with White House correspondents, compared with 147 for President George W. Bush and 252 for President Clinton,

Now that Republicans have picked up their 41st seat in the Senate, breaking up the Democrats' 60-vote supermajority, President Obama's legislative agenda is up in the air, including his nominees for federal agencies.

Todd Palin's personal e-mail address is included on messages sent by administration staff and top aides to then-Gov. Sarah Palin on topics ranging from use of the state plane to day-to-day governing issues and oil and gas legislation.

Defense secretary dismisses comments by the Iranian government that it's nearing a deal with the international community on its nuclear program.

The barb between Obama and Republicans came a day after the government reported an unexpected decline in the unemployment rate, from 10 percent to 9.7 percent. 

Still wonder exactly why Justice Samuel Alito shook his head and mouthed the words "not true" during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address? He objected to the president's saying the ruling reversed a century of law.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the U.S. has a low risk of a double-dip recession.

The U.S. Army is curtailing plans to cut what it spends on running its bases worldwide after concerns from soldiers and Congress that services for military families might suffer.

A Muslim group filed a federal civil rights complaint Friday after a Southern California mayor remarked that he was "growing a Christian community" in a state of the city address last week.

Senate Democrats are working hard behind the scenes to draw Republican support for their first official jobs bill -- a struggle forced upon Democrats by the GOP upset in Massachusetts this month that snatched away their filibuster-proof majority.

After this month's devastating earthquake, the U.S. law enforcement community in Haiti has played a crucial role in the relief efforts despite being severely understaffed.

Obama now signals the bill may die in Congress.

Many tea party activists and tea party-supported candidates are trying to use the movement to reshape the Republican Party from the inside.

In a bid to advance the tea party movement from holding rallies to holding office, the leaders of the anti-establishment groups announced a new political organization Friday that they say will ?endorse, support and elect? conservatives across the country.