Jack Reed

by Janet Hook and Jim Puzzanghera The debate over the Senate's financial reform bill is setting up an unusual battle on Capitol Hill between two powerful groups: automobile dealers and the military. Car dealers, a well-organized small-business lobby...

CIA Director Leon Panetta will be the headliner guest on ABC's “This Week” this weekend. The program starts at 11 a.m. Sunday on WFTV-Ch. 9. Jake Tapper is the guest moderator. The panel will be George Will, author Robin Wright, David Sanger...

Gen. David Petraeus discusses the drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan on this weekend's edition of NBC's “Meet the Press.” Moderator David Gregory went to Afghanistan for the interview. The program airs at 9 a.m. Sunday on WESH-Ch. 2...

Also, John Cornyn, Bob Corker, Kevin McCarthy and Chris Van Hollen....

SATURDAY The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer Iran, Afghanistan: National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones (ret.); immigration: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. 3 p.m. CNN McLaughlin Group 6:30 p.m. KCET SUNDAY Today Giraffe born with...

(AP) - Tens of thousands of unsafe or decaying bridges carrying 100 million drivers a day must wait for repairs because states are spending stimulus money on spans that are already in good shape or on easier projects like repaving roads, an Associated...

Also, Roger Goodell, Sen. Jack Reed, King Abdullah II and John Brennan....

By William Gibson, Washington Bureau Florida Senator Bill Nelson and nine other coastal-state Democrats have warned fellow senators not to expand offshore oil drilling as part of legislation to diminish global warming. Their letter to negotiators who...

Gun-control advocates have been largely stymied in their efforts to get significant new firearms restrictions, but they still believe they can achieve one goal: closing a loophole that allows sales at gun shows without background checks on purchasers....

As recently as a month ago, it appeared that Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker would be running into a withering fusillade of rhetorical fire when they appeared on Capitol Hill to report on the progress of the "surge" in Iraq. Now that...

Barack Obama, riding a message of change, swept aside a Democratic dynasty and two centuries of history Wednesday to become the first African American to lead a major political party into the fall campaign for the White House. The vote was by acclamation...

by Mike Dorning Sen. Barack Obama will be joined on his planned trip this summer to Iraq and Afghanistan by two fellow senators who have been critical of the war in Iraq, one of them a moderate Republican Vietnam War......