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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has re-elected John Boehner to be speaker in the new Republican-led Congress, despite opposition by tea party lawmakers that underscored party divisions. The Ohio Rep...

Tuesday morning brought the region's first snow storm, with the National Weather Service issuing a winter storm warning for parts of Virginia and Maryland. The Associated Press rounded up the res...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans assumed full control of Congress on Tuesday for the first time in eight years in a day of pomp, circumstance and raw politics beneath the Capitol Dome. "We wil...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, once a top Republican prospect for national office, faced sentencing Tuesday for selling the influence of his office to the CEO of a diet...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Monday it was reviewing its annual $440 million aid package to the Palestinians because of their effort to join the International Criminal Court t...

BOSTON (AP) — Some of the prospective jurors who could decide Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's fate got their first look Monday at the young man accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, and they seemed t...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The only son of former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry is seeking his late father's seat on the D.C. Council.Thirty-four-year-old Christopher Barry picked up nomin...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Imagine a world in which your garage door opens automatically as you pull into the driveway. The living room lights and heater turn on — perhaps the oven starts warming up...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama this week will test whether he still has the sway to keep Washington focused on his own priorities, even as a new Republican-run Congress descends on the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans remain in charge of the House, but it won't be the same Republicans leading many committees. Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is poised to run the chamber for the...