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By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
The House voted Wednesday to eliminate $450 million for the development of a second engine for the Joint Strike Fighter program that the...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
A U.S. immigration agent who was killed Tuesday in a part of central Mexico increasingly under the influence of drug traffickers has been...
By Brian Bennett, Tribune Washington Bureau
The quick pace of protests and two regime changes in the Middle East over the last month has stretched the U.S. intelligence community as it...
Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. — Thousands of teachers, prison guards and students descended on the Wisconsin Capitol on Wednesday to try to...
By Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times
Despite the political and economic risks, congressional Republicans are forging ahead with proposals for severe budget cuts this year,...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
A U.S. federal agent was shot dead Tuesday and a second wounded when they were intercepted by gunmen as they drove from Mexico City into a...
By Julie Mianecki, Los Angeles Times
President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to former President George H.W. Bush and 14 others, including poet Maya...
By Paul West, Washington Bureau
President Obama's latest spending blueprint is more political road map than problem solver, another in a string of pragmatic moves aimed...
By Noam N. Levey, Tribune Washington Bureau
Even as he proposes cuts to rein in spending in 2012, President Obama is calling for strategic increases in areas like cancer research and...
By Tom Hamburger and Matea Gold, Washington Bureau
Hoping to win a lucrative agreement with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, three data security contractors for federal defense and...
Associated Press
Tucson — The leader of an anti-illegal-immigrant group was convicted Monday in a home invasion robbery that left a 9-year-old...
By Andrew Zajac, Washington Bureau
A disproportionate number of medical devices recalled because of possible links to serious health problems or deaths — including...
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times
President Obama formally unveiled his 2012 budget Monday. The plan now must go through Congress, a route made more perilous by maneuvering...
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times
For struggling California, President Obama's proposed budget will provide less money for a state government awash in its own red ink, less...
By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
The Republican-led House passed a short-term extension of expiring provisions of the Patriot Act on Monday, temporarily bypassing opposition...
By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times
Douglas County, a swath of subdivisions just south of here that is one of the nation's wealthiest, is something of a public school paradise.
From Reuters
A man-versus-machine showdown on popular U.S. quiz show "Jeopardy!" ended in a tie on the first day of a three-day challenge, when an IBM...
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
House Speaker John A. Boehner said Sunday he thought the Obama administration handled "a very difficult situation" in Egypt about as well as...