Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives scrambled on Friday to allay lingering concerns about a broad healthcare overhaul and said a landmark vote planned for Saturday could slip a day or more. Read more »

A top U.S. official held rare talks with Myanmar's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on Wednesday as part of Washington's highest-level visit to the isolated army-ruled country in 14 years. Read more »

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington does not accept the legitimacy of Israeli settlement activity but believes that getting to talks is the quickest way to achieve a freeze. Read more »

The Obama White House on Friday said it believed grants and loans from the $787 billion economic stimulus plan approved early this year had saved or created 640,329 jobs so far. Read more »

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a sweeping healthcare overhaul on Thursday that would transform the insurance market, create a government-run insurance plan and levy new taxes on the rich. Read more »

South Carolina's Republican U.S. senators differ on whether Guantanamo Bay detainees should be sent to the state, but say they will work together to keep the accused terrorists out of federal courts. Read more »

Reports that South Carolina may get detainees when Guantanomo Bay is shut down has roiled the political debate in South Carolina's governor's race. Read more »

They were supposed to remember, but instead, elections workers left memory cards in voting machines in Atlanta. Read more »