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Hide Video U.S. Senator Carl Levin says he supports the Federal Reserve's proposed restrictions on credit card practices, but the rules don't go far enough.

Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, stands with some of his grandchildren, left, and friends, right, as he speaks to supporters at his campaign headquarters in Anchorage, Alaska on Monday Aug.

President Bush said Monday that U.S. troops going to Iraq soon will find a country dramatically different from the one that was "hopeless" before his troop buildup.

A father accused of abducting his 7-year-old daughter agreed Monday to be taken back to Massachusetts to face charges there following his weekend arrest in Maryland, where authorities believe he fled to start a ...

Oil prices plunged to a three-month low Monday, briefly tumbling below $120 a barrel in another huge sell-off after Tropical Storm Edouard seemed less likely to disrupt oil and natural gas output in the Gulf of ...

JetBlue planes at JFK airport. The managers of New York City's crowded airports say they will block a Bush administration plan to try to reduce flight delays around the country through an experimental auction ...

Senator Edward Kennedy will have a presence at the Democratic National Convention even if he can't make it to Denver.

Tiny foreign mussels assault drinking water sources in California and Nevada. A deadly fish virus spreads swiftly through the Great Lakes and beyond. Japanese shore crabs make a home for themselves in Long Island Sound, more than 6,000 miles away.

These are no exotic seafood delicacies. They're a menace to U.S. drinking water supplies, native plants and animals, and they cost billions to contain.

Yet Congress is moving to address the problem at the pace of a plain old garden snail.

With time for passing laws rapidly diminishing in this election year, two powerful Senate committee chairmen are at loggerheads over legislation to set the first federal clean-up standards for the large oceangoing ships on which aquatic invasive species hitch a ride to U.S. shores.

Atlanta lawyer Jim Martin insists that he's the best Democrat to defeat Republican Sen.

The government is putting millions of Medicare dollars at risk by authorizing fictitious sellers of wheelchairs, prosthetics and other medical supplies to submit reimbursement claims with only limited review, congressional investigators say.

The study by the Government Accountability Office obtained by The Associated Press sought to follow up on oversight gaps that have plagued the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services since at least 2005. Roughly $1 billion of the $10 billion in annual Medicare payments the government makes for medical equipment are later deemed improper.

The rhetoric is getting bitter on blogs, campaign signs and now on YouTube. A new campaign advertisement labels veteran state Rep.

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY : Sen.

Senators are great glad-handers, not just with their constituents but with each other.

Speculation is rife over who would be appointed to fill Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat should the Illinois Democrat be elected president, observers say.

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell accused Democrats of obstructing efforts to expand domestic oil production to try to offset high gas prices as the Senate Republican leader spent more time criticizing some colleagues ...

BATON ROUGE - Opening the door for more oil production while at the same time clearing obstacles that block development of alternative energy and vehicles that can utilize it would be major steps toward energy ...

It is a tradition at many kitchen tables to yell at the newspaper. At John McCain's kitchen table, it is becoming a tradition to yell at one paper in particular: The New York Times.

The latest dustup between the Republican presidential candidate and the 'All the News that's fit to Print' big-name newspaper centered on the editorial board's back-to-back criticisms of McCain, one dispatch accusing him of taking the low road and another contending that he was playing politics with race.

The second editorial, which appeared on the Times Web site, said McCain's ads conjured up loaded racial images and raised the specter of O.J. Simpson.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss - already facing heat for sharply questioning a whistleblower in a fatal sugar refinery accident outside Savannah - toughened his criticism by saying the employee is "on the hook" for the ...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama opposes offering reparations to the descendants of slaves, putting him at odds with some black groups and leaders.

The man with a serious chance to become the nation's first black president argues that government should instead combat the legacy of slavery by improving schools, health care and the economy for all.

'I have said in the past _ and I'll repeat again _ that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed,' the Illinois Democrat said recently.

The Senate voted Friday to ratify a compact to prevent the diversion of water from the Great Lakes, quickly approving legislation sought by the region's governors worried that thirsty places would covet one of ...