WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pace of job losses slowed in many U.S. states in October, and the unemployment rate slipped in hard-hit Michigan, ...
D.C. gay marriage foes have suffered another setback in their effort to prevent a gay marriage law from being approved Opponents of gay ...
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 19: Chairman of the FreedomWorks and former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) (L) waits with his aide Adam Brandon (R) in a holding room for his turn to testify at a hearing before the House Oversight and ...
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: Treasury Secretary Timonthy Geithner hosts a small business forum in the Cash Room at the Treasury Department November 18, 2009 in Washington, DC. More than 100 small business leaders and politicians were invited by the White House to ...
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 19: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) (L), Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) (2nd-L), Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT)(2nd-R) and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) (R) receive applause from health care advocacy workers as they arrive at a news conference on Capitol ...
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 19: Deputy Education Secretary Anthony Wilder Miller testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee November 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on "Tracking the Money: How Recovery Act Recipients Account for their Use ...
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 19: A tourist watches as members of the group Faith in Action stage a nativity scene in front of the U.S. Supreme Court November 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. Faith and Action organized the nativity scene in front of ...
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 19: Retired Army Gen. John Keane (L) testifies while flanked by Frances Fragos Townsend (C) and Mitchell Silber (R) during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on November 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. ...
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announces that Senate Democrats unveiled their healthcare proposal while caucusing at the U.S. Capitol November 18, 2009 in Washington DC. The U.S. Senate could hold their first test vote on the package ...
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testifies during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill November 18, 2009 in Washington, DC. The hearing was to examine the "Oversight of the Department of Justice." (Photo by Alex ...
DC ends neighborhood checkpoint program, won't appeal court ruling finding it unconstitutional The District of Columbia has decided not to appeal a court ruling that found its police checkpoints in a high-crime neighborhood were unconstitutional. In a court filing Monday, D.C. Attorney ...
Rescuers in rain-soaked DC evacuate shops over fears nearby buildings could collapse Rescuers have evacuated several shops in southeast Washington, D.C., over concerns that nearby buildings under construction might collapse because the ground is soaked from recent rain. D.C. fire department spokesman ...
