The debt ceiling wasn’t the only thing President Obama raised last week. An ins...

India, the US and Japan are holding their first trilateral meeting later in the day i...

The economic outlook for the Washington, D.C., metro area is improving, with most emp...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was seven years old and living in the South Bro...

Republican opponent Rick Perry may accuse President Obama of waging “a war on r...

One day after a congressional panel gave up on a deficit-reduction plan, Occupy Wall ...

Washingtonians have been named among the nation’s fittest residents as well as its ...

The District of Columbia became the sixth jurisdiction in the U.S. to legalize “...

Washington State football coach Paul Wulff was fired Tuesday after four years during ...

Redskins quarterback Rex Grossman created a stir this week when he said Washington wi...

Natalie Randolph was named the head coach at Calvin Coolidge Senior High School in Wa...

A top US official’s son who is working for a pro-democracy group in Egypt has b...

Say what you want about the nation’s capital, but the folks in Washington can r...

THE PRESIDENT:  Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished ...

As lawmakers held their first public hearing on legalizing same-sex marriage, a previ...

This Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll was conducted by telephone Oct. 6 ...

About 250,000 electric customers around Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia were without powe...

A billionaire history buff has stepped forward to donate a $7.5 million matching gift...

Protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement are meeting outside the Ca...

An Army officer recommended a general court-martial Thursday for a low-ranking intell...

Sherry Rehman held her first meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Wa...

Sculptures by an outspoken Chinese artist are going on display at Smithsonian museums...

The Obama administration announced Monday a 20-year ban on new mining claims on more ...

United States investigators are probing whether the Obama Administration divulged too...

A District of Columbia City Council member was charged Thursday with taking thousands...

Washington Governor Chris Gregoire announced her support for gay marriage legislation...

President Barack Obama flew into chilly Washington from balmy Hawaii today, straight ...

A Washington offshoot of Occupy Wall Street has won a green light to keep occupying u...

A Washington man is facing felony drug charges after he was busted smuggling pot disg...

Americans probably will not be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade anytime soon for troo...

Christian Ehrhoff scored the eventual game- winning goal during an explosive four-goa...