WASHINGTON (AP) -- Just days after President Barack Obama endorsed a partial freeze on domestic spending, his Democratic allies in the Senate have rejected a plan attempting to do pretty much the same thing....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The son of a man killed when he opened fire at a Las Vegas courthouse has been taken into custody in Tennessee after threatening to blow up the federal building in Memphis, the U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic lawmakers must soon decide whether President Barack Obama is leading them toward statesmanlike courage or political folly with his take-no-prisoners reassertion of an ambitious social agenda....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday assailed last week's Supreme Court's decision removing limits on corporate campaign spending, calling it "dead wrong."...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama told Americans the bipartisan deficit commission he will appoint won't just be "one of those Washington gimmicks." Left unspoken in that assurance was the fact that the commission won't have any teeth....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- High-speed rail projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the big winners of $8 billion in grants to be announced Thursday by the White House - the start of what some Democrats tout as a national rail-building program that could rival the interstate highways begun in the Eisenhower era....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats are counting on their soon-to-expire 60-vote majority to raise the federal debt ceiling by $1.9 trillion so they don't have to take more politically painful votes on government borrowing until after the fall midterm elections....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is urging Congress to repeal the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, but Democratic allies and Republican opponents alike are criticizing his approach....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito didn't like hearing President Barack Obama publicly criticize the high court's ruling removing corporate campaign spending limits - and he didn't try to hide it....