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The nation's largest food and beverage companies spent about $1.6 billion in 2006 marketing their products -- especially carbonated drinks -- to children, according to a Federal Trade Commission report.

Under a Democratic dare, Senate Republicans on Monday blocked a bill that would aid victims of torture, disability and disease, insisting the legislation would add to the deficit and demanding that Congress ...

Mon, Jul 28, 2008 The Environmental Protection Agency is telling its pollution enforcement officials not to talk with congressional investigators, reporters and even the agency's own inspector general, ...

For decades under liberal attorneys general and conservatives, the principle under law that quality not politics should govern hirings at Justice under the Honors Program stood inviolate.

Jim Lankford walks through his crop field that was damaged by the June flooding in Martinsville, Ind., Tuesday, July 23, 2008.

Some Democratic campaign buttons made for distribution in Idaho show an unlikely pair: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican Sen. Larry Craig.

But don't expect the staunch Republican to throw his support behind Obama or for the presidential candidate to ask Craig to change his mind and run for Senate again. Apparently the button manufacturer picked a picture of the wrong Idaho Larry.

The 3-inch button by Tigereye Design was intended to show Obama beside Larry LaRocco, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, the Lewiston Tribune reported.

The head of Kentucky's Libertarian Party said party leaders are not ready to take action against U.S. Senate hopeful Sonny Landham for a series of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim remarks.

Homeowners who do not itemize on their federal tax returns will get a new property tax deduction this year under legislation that gained final congressional approval in the U.S. Senate on Saturday.

Sen. Barack Obama is back home in Chicago. The Illinois senator returned the United States after being abroad for the past week.

The Senate on Saturday overwhelmingly passed a landmark housing bill that will offer up to $300 billion in loans for troubled homeowners and establish a government rescue plan for mortgage finance giants Fannie ...

The city that hoped for the best but learned the worst showed its respect Saturday for Army Staff Sgt.

Republicans on Saturday blocked the Senate from considering a bill next week that would nearly double federal aid to help the poor pay heating and air-conditioning bills.

DENVER - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, ridiculing Barack Obama for "the audacity of hopelessness" in his policies on Iraq, said today that the entire Middle East could have plunged into war had ...

In this Thursday, July, 24, 2008 file photo, U.S. Democratic presidential contender Sen.

Sen. Ken Salazar and congressmen Mark Udall and John Salazar have asked federal officials to withdraw parcels on western Colorado's Roan Plateau from an upcoming auction of oil and gas leases.

The man giving John Kerry his first Democratic primary fight since his election to the Senate more than 20 years ago proposed a series of debates Friday.

Two-thirds of U.S. Hispanic voters support Democrat Barack Obama for president over Republican John McCain and the partisan gap among the United States' fastest growing voter bloc is broader than at any point ...

Three ballistic missile crew members in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices this month, triggering an investigation by military and National Security Agency experts, the Air ...

A Republican senator who traveled to the Middle East with Barack Obama says both Obama and John McCain should quit talking about the troop surge in Iraq.

Polygamous sects that have spread throughout the United States and beyond are "a form of organized crime," largely unchecked by law enforcement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.