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Honda recalled more than 35,000 Civic hybrids in the United States to fix a problem with the electrical system that could cause the headlights to turn off or the engine to stall.

The state attorneys general investigating abuses in the mortgage servicing industry said Monday that as they hammer out details of a massive settlement with banks, their main objective remains fixing a system that has subjected consumers to confusion and financial strife.

It's put-up-or-shut-up time for Republicans. They managed to make it through the health-care debate without offering serious solutions of their own, and - perhaps more impressive - through the election by promising to tell us their solutions after they'd won. But the jig is up. They need a health...

Eric M. Westbury Sr., a financial executive accused in 2006 of defrauding the District of Columbia over funds earmarked for charter schools, has agreed to pay a $130,000 penalty to the federal government.

Wells Fargo said Monday that it plans to hire 500 tellers, managers and personal bankers in the Washington area during the next few months as part of its takeover of Wachovia.

It was a fitting eulogy for the economic orthodoxy that once governed the world, given by one of the men who helped develop it.

When it comes to coping with a government shutdown, the legislative and executive branches are certainly separate - but they may not be equal.

On five occasions over the past three weeks, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has tried to nail down his departure from the Pentagon by telling members of Congress in budget hearings and military cadets in speeches at West Point and the Air Force Academy that this would be his final appearance...

Bicycling advocates will arrive en masse in Washington on Tuesday for the annual National Bike Summit , three days of planning and lobbying that made news last year when Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood climbed onto a table to address the group.

A woman in a developing country running her own small business can face any number of obstacles: discrimination, limited access to funding, and little education on how to manage the balance sheet of her company or win more customers.

When the remains of a Vietnam War soldier buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery were identified in 1998 using DNA, Pentagon officials proudly said that the days of interring service members as "unknown" could well be over.

District Mayor Vincent C. Gray on Sunday acknowledged "missteps" and said he wants the city attorney general and the D.C. Council to investigate allegations that aides to his campaign paid mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown last summer to continue his attacks on then-Mayor Adrian M. Fenty in exchange...

New Hampshire's new Republican state House speaker is pretty clear about what he thinks of college kids and how they vote. They're "foolish," Speaker William O'Brien said in a recent speech to a tea party group.

Congressional leaders prodded the Obama administration on Sunday for a more aggressive U.S. response to Libya's increasingly brutal attacks on opposition groups - calling for a no-fly zone and other military measures - but White House officials cautioned against being drawn into a potentially...

The 2010 election was devastating for Democrats across the country, but the South was at the epicenter of the destruction.

Congressional leaders showed few signs of compromise in their ongoing budget battle Sunday, with Republican and Democratic leaders publicly accusing one another of not being serious about crafting a responsible federal spending plan quickly.

A graphic with a Feb. 14 Style article on this year's Grammy Awards ceremony, showing the boost in sales that can occur in the week after an artist or group wins Album of the Year, incorrectly labeled the sales total for U2's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" in the week after it won the award in...

This week's House Homeland Security Committee hearing on "radical Islam" is needed to highlight and investigate the threat posed by homegrown Muslim terrorists, Chairman Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) said Sunday.

Although much of K Street spends its time plying the halls of Congress on behalf of well-heeled clients, there is a growing dark side to Washington's lobbying and public relations industry: figuring out new ways to undermine and sabotage opponents.

SELMA, ALA. - Thousand of marchers marked the 46th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" voting rights confrontation in Selma.