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Momentum is growing on Capitol Hill to provide additional and consistent support to primary caregivers of seriously injured service members from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

A seemingly harmless breast cancer bill is proving once again that in Congress, few things are as simple as they appear.

This past week brought the conclusion of the Chu-Chu race, one of the greatest matchups in recent congressional politics.
A special election was held Tuesday in a Los Angeles-area district to fill the former seat of Democratic Rep. Hilda Solis, who was appointed by President Obama to be secretary of labor.

For tax accountants, the $96,000 payment Republican Sen. John Ensign's parents made to the family of the woman with whom he was having an affair is a tantalizing puzzle.

A key member of a U.S. Senate panel is drafting legislation to plug a hole in government oversight that allows seafood merchants to routinely rip off customers by substituting cheap fish for more expensive fillets.

On tap for the coming week is a House vote that would both welcome God to a prominent place in the U.S. Capitol complex and correct an embarrassing flub of the nation's motto.

President Obama's first official overture to the gay and lesbian community, granting a handful of benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, did little to quiet gay-rights activists who want him to push for repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act.

The shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum this past week by an avowed hater of Jews came not long after the Anti-Defamation League reported that anti-Semitic incidents in the country were down for the fourth year in a row.

First, Patrick James lost his 10-year-old daughter in a van rollover crash. Now, he may lose the right to hold the vehicle maker liable.

It has taken years, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration appears on the verge of getting Congress' approval to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products as drugs.