After months of struggling to stay alive on government loans, Chrysler finally succumbed to bankruptcy Thursday, pinning its future on a top-to-bottom reorganization and plans to build cleaner cars through an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat.

Secretary of State Trey Grayson has formed an exploratory committee for a possible run in 2010 for the U.S. Senate seat now held by fellow Republican Jim Bunning , adding a new wrinkle to the closely-watched race and fueling speculation about Bunninga s future.

The Obama administration has relied on a Bush-era public health strategy aimed at coordinating its response across an array of government agencies in the week since the first reports of a swine flu outbreak emerged, officials say, as it attempts to balance safety concerns with a desire to prevent a...

President Obama told Democratic leaders that a full inquiry would steal energy from his agenda.

Politico - Ali Al-Marri, a Qatari man held without charge by the Bush administration for seven years on suspicions that he was an Al Qaeda sleeper agent, pled guilty Thursday to one felony count of providing material support to a terrorist organization.

The case of the missing law clerks is this spring's most-watched mystery at the Supreme Court.

Politico - Republicans are pushing the hot-button issue of what will be done about Guantanamo’s prisoners—so much so that Democrats signaled Thursday that they will likely drop language sought by the Pentagon to authorize the use of war funds to relocate the inmates.

AP - A congressionally backed panel said Friday that religious freedoms were deteriorating in Russia, Turkey and four other nations that were added to a watch list of countries where people's rights to worship as they please or not to worship at all are at risk.

AP - The Rev. Al Sharpton said he feels a weight has lifted, now that his longrunning battles with the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission are finally resolved.

CQPolitics.com - After losing Arlen Specter to the Democrats, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell moved quickly to gauge the level of discontent of one of his caucus' few remaining moderates.