Reuters: Politics

NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Shock waves from Bernard Madoff's alleged fraud spread globally on Monday, as charities, wealthy individuals and banks disclosed losses from the prominent Wall Street tr...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of slain President John F. Kennedy, is pursuing the Senate seat of Sen. Hillary Clinton, who has been nominated Secretary of State, civil rights ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama had no contact with scandal-hit Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his advisers did not have "inappropriate" discussions with the governor's staff...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats are drafting legislation to demand that the White House do more to reduce home foreclosures before Congress will agree to release additional money for...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush has become the talk of Iraq, hailed by marchers as a national hero but blasted by the government as a b...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday the military prison at Guantanamo Bay could not be responsibly closed until the U.S. war on terror is over and he defended the pract...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Monday chose a Nobel physics laureate to be his energy secretary and picked a former top federal environmental regulator to coordinate hi...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military operations, including the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, have cost $904 billion since 2001 and could top $1.7 trillion by 2018, even with big cuts in overseas troop...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tobacco firms can be sued under state law for deceptive advertising of "light" cigarettes, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a decision that could affect some 40 suit...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese business sentiment has suffered its sharpest crash in three decades, a Bank of Japan survey showed on Monday, and the central bank said no early turnaround was expected w...