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After more than five months -- the longest wait for an attorney general nominee since the Reagan administration -- the Senate is poised to confirm Lynchtwi.

At least 1,832 people are dead after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake early Saturday near Kathmandu, Nepal's capital and largest city, authorities say.

President Barack Obama and his 2008 campaign rival, Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, are bitter rivals on almost every aspect of U.S. foreign policy. Yet they are allies on one particularly thorny subject -- the use of armed drones.

Read a first-person account from Kathmandu in the aftermath of Nepal's catastrophic earthquake.

The White House announced over the weekend it is sending three representatives to the Monday funeral for Freddie Gray, the Baltimore man who suffered fatal injuries to his spinal cord after being taken into a police van.

The day after the Benghazi terror attack, a staffer for Arizona Sen. John McCain emailed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's office to convey praise for her remarks to State Department employees after the attack.

The United States and Japan announced big changes Monday to the guidelines that will govern the defense relationship between the two countries.

The disastrous earthquake in Nepal was large, but geophysicists knew it was coming, writes scientist Colin Stark.

President Barack Obama had one motto Saturday night at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner: take no prisoners.

The Obama administration unveils a plan to spend millions of dollars to stem the tide of undocumented children streaming across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Suspended New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez has dropped a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Yankees' team doctor and New York Presbyterian Hospital, according to court paperwork filed Thursday.

Nathaniel Morris, who's reading President Obama's 2008 campaign memoir, says it highlights the promises that haven't been achieved

Dan Ronayne thinks that the new carbon emission standards could work against Democrats this year and in 2016

Paul Saffo says with the Fire Phone, Amazon shifts the focus of mobile device to satisfying our shopping urges.

Rep. Steve Israel says that even though House Republicans just changed leaders, the new names were elected on pledges of fealty to the tea party agenda

Debbie Plotnick says incidents like James Boyd's death might be avoided if more police were trained to deal with the mentally ill

Raymond Offenheiser says a new Oxfam study shows workers in every congressional district would benefit from a minimum wage hike. So why the partisan stalling?

George W. Bush left the White more than five years ago but that would be hard to tell if you have been listening to Hillary Clinton over the last month.

Gerry Goffin, a hit songwriter and former husband of Carole King, died early Thursday. He was 75.

Texas inmates have filed a lawsuit over soaring temperatures in state prisons that they say have killed at least 12 prisoners in the last three years.