An extraordinary bipartisan accord between House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is letting both parties exhale as they move toward…

The Supreme Court is considering whether the Americans With Disabilities Act requires police to take special precautions when trying to arrest armed and…

Responding to pressure from Congress and veterans groups, the Department of Veterans Affairs is relaxing a rule that makes it hard for some veterans in…

House Republicans quietly deepened recommended budget savings from the government's chief health care program for the poor by about $140 billion in recent…

A budding bipartisan deal to shelter physicians from Medicare cuts, championed by the House's two top leaders, is drawing powerful allies including the…

The Obama administration said Friday it's making progress trying to correct a tax-form error that affected 820,000 customers of…

A Florida Senate committee's action casts doubt on whether Floridians will be able to buy whiskey in the same grocery store aisles as beer and wine.The…

Millions of runners are searching for a new challenge. They want something with more danger and fun than a traditional marathon event. In the past year...

Bipartisan House leaders are working on a $213 billion plan to permanently change how doctors are paid for treating Medicare patients, a costly problem…

Federal law requires publicly funded medical researchers to promptly report the results of many experimental treatments. But few are doing so, a review shows, and patients may be hurt.