WASHINGTON _ Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele on Friday became the first black person to head the Republican National Committee, according to news reports.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Diplomacy now trumps defense as the main instrument of American foreign policy. At least that is the intent that President Barack Obama …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Before a jubilant crowd of more than a million, Barack Hussein Obama claimed his place in history as America’s first black president, …

WASHINGTON (AP) _ More than 1 million people crammed onto the National Mall and along the Pennsylvania Avenue inauguration parade route Tuesday to witness the …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and forever changed the course of American history.  On Tuesday, President Barack Obama …

PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ President-elect Barack Obama, tracing the train route Abraham Lincoln took nearly a century and a half earlier, undertook the final leg of …

MIAMI BEACH – Former President William Jefferson Clinton recently got a standing ovation at the Miami Dream Dinner for the Martin Luther King Jr. National …

SEATTLE (AP) _ Hearst Corp. put Seattle’s oldest newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, up for sale Friday, Jan. 9, saying that if it can’t find a …

MILWAUKEE (AP) – Killings dropped by a third here last year, making Wisconsin’s largest city among the nation’s most successful in tackling its 2008 murder …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats who thought they could push away Roland Burris misjudged the racial fallout, underestimated public reaction and wound up on shaky …