A federal judge signed off on BP's settlement with businesses and people hard hit by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

It was clear from House Speaker John Boehner's weekly address on Saturday that the fiscal cliff negotiations with President Barack Obama weren't going anywhere soon.

A son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, is seriously considering running for Senate if John Kerry vacates the seat to become the next Secretary of State

Members of both parties gathered Thursday to bid farewell to the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, the second longest serving senator in U.S. history.

Testifying before Congress Wednesday, Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist criticized the state's current Gov. Rick Scott for signing an election law that put "ridiculous restrictions" on voting rights.

Vivid new details of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, were released Tuesday night by a federal committee trying to come to grips with the violence that led to the first murder of a U.S. ambassador since 1988 and the deaths of three other Americans.

Three State Department officials, including two who oversaw security decisions at the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, resigned in the wake of a review of security failures

Portraits of the victims lost at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school Friday. Six women who worked at Sandy Hook Elementary were killed, in addition to 20 students -- 12 girls and eight boys.

The nation will have a set of recommendations to address widespread gun violence within weeks, President Obama announced Wednesday.

President Barack Obama will announce his first concrete steps Wednesday in addressing the raging debate about gun policy.