Tim Roemer

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took turns Wednesday leading an often humorous but sometimes emotional celebration of the decades-long service of the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh as the University of Notre Dame's...

THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: Discussion about the Boston Marathon bombings and the suspects will fill the Sunday morning talk shows. A look at the guest list, which has been very fluid this weekend: ABC's "This Week" features Mayor Thomas Menino, D-...

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 21 -27, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     -------------------- SERIES Smash It's opening night in this new...

by Christi Parsons Barack Obama is in DC today, planning a series of meetings focused mostly on national security. His senior working group on national security is set to discuss the post-Bush challenges in foreign policy and, later, the Democratic......

by Frank James The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism officially issued its report today. We've known for days that the report's takeaway message would reflect what's in the first paragraph of the...

(WGN-AM)- President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated retired Chicago investment banker Louis Susman to be ambassador to Britain, one of the plum appointments available to the president. Susman was a top fundraiser for Obama's presidential campaign and...

There's some pretty reliable reports now that the Obama campaign, like McCain, has started up the machinery of selecting a vice-presidential candidate. In some fashion, the search is apparently being headed by Jim Johnson, a party elder who oversaw......

Republican and Democratic members of Congress drew together in the fading light Tuesday evening on the steps of the Capitol pledging to work together and to support President Bush in fighting terrorism. "Our prayers and thoughts and words of...

T. Keith Glennan considered his options. The year was 1959, and a powerful Houston congressman had just offered NASA's first leader 1,000 acres of prime Texas real estate to construct a new space center. On the one hand, Albert Thomas controlled space...