TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese mobile phone firm has halted an advertisement depicting a monkey as a political candidate after bloggers said the commercial was a racial slur against U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

AP - The Senate on Thursday put off voting on controversial electronic surveillance legislation, in spite of what appeared to be overwhelming support for the bill.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York will hire more minority- and women-owned debt underwriters, lawyers and risk managers and ease regulatory barriers that are "openly discriminating" against foreign reinsurers, Democratic Gov. David Paterson told reporters on Thursday.

A divided Supreme Court ruled for the first time Thursday that the Constitution protects an individual right to own guns, in ...

A mortgage aid plan is on track for passage in the Senate as soon as today. The massive foreclosure rescue bill cleared a key ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two weeks after his wife ended her White House bid, former Democratic President Bill Clinton offered a faint voice of support for Barack Obama -- through a spokesman.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading conservative evangelical on Tuesday said Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had distorted the Bible and espouses a "fruitcake" approach to the U.S. Constitution.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Tuesday welcomed steps by Vietnam toward permitting greater religious freedom after meeting with the communist government's prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung.

A congressional subcommittee voted Tuesday to subpoena an adviser to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about the Bush ...

New York City officials told Congress on Tuesday they are tightening requirements on tower construction cranes after a spate ...

The Army's march to overhaul its tarnished contracting system has been slowed by an unlikely foe: the White House.

Lawyers for the White House and Congress are headed to court Monday in a dispute over whether top aides to President Bush must ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House called for the Zimbabwe government and "its thugs" to stop violence after the leading opposition candidate pulled out of a June 27 presidential vote on Sunday because of killings and concern the ballot would not be fair.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama proposed on Sunday new steps to tackle energy market speculation that has been blamed for runaway oil costs.

Despite the flurry of bills being debated on Capitol Hill, Congress cannot control the global price of oil nor offer real help ...