U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor's warning of imminent famine in north ...

With Democrats now in the minority in both chambers of Congress, party leadership has been reflecting on where improvements ...

The average American retires at age 62, but in Congress, many lawmakers hang around well past their 70s.

Despite being one of the most powerful women in global politics, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s feminism has ...

One by one, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and her allies tackled objections from the bill’s chief opponents to carve out a ...

The bald eagle had been on the nation’s Great Seal since the Revolutionary War, but it was never codified in law as the ...

Are there links between the fire that gutted parts of parliament and a legislative impasse involving Speaker Koffa?

Polling shows 79% of Americans support age limits for politicians in Washington. That’s an overwhelming majority in today’s ...

In a dialogue aimed at integration, we’re not trying to decide who is right or wrong but to work together to solve our ...

The northeastern state of Manipur is still burning, after more than a year of ethnic clashes that critics have accused the ...

A no-holds-barred speech to pay tribute to former Prime Minister late Atal Bihar Vajpayee landed Bihar Deputy Chief Minister ...

South Korea's main opposition party has submitted a motion to impeach the country's acting leader over his reluctance to fill ...