Former Reps. Eric Massa and veteran Charles Rangel​ represent potential albatrosses for Democrats in​ the fall elections, and the party can only hope​ th...

As the Arkansas Senate race heats up, Sen. Blanche​ Lincoln wants to set the record straight on​ settling health care with a simple majority vote.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the House of​ Representatives moved on Wednesday to limit the​ ability of lawmakers to tuck pet projects into​ spendi...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday​ passed a $149 billion package of jobless aid and​ tax breaks, as Democrats continued efforts to​ lower th...

Facing dismal polls numbers in his home state,​ Nevada Sen. Harry Reid has devised a re-election​ strategy: welcome third party candidates who can​ split...

Five Wisconsin residents, including two who worked​ for community organizing group ACORN, were charged​ Monday with election fraud relating to the 2008​ ...

In a speech in Philadelphia Monday, the president​ will try to drum up support for his plan, while​ also urging uneasy lawmakers to cast a "final​ v...

The vote was Iraq's second national election​ since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. The big​ turnout and limited violence were seen as key to​ the pl...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama​ called Iraq's election an "important​ milestone" on Sunday despite deadly violence,​ praisi...