The federal government will pay about $9.5 million to acquire land so the Flight 93 National Memorial can be built by the 10th anniversary of the Sept.

U.S. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana says a health care overhaul will happen this year even if Republicans back out of bipartisan talks under growing public pressure and that the death of Sen.

Bloomberg - Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Threats by President Barack Obama and congressional leaders to push health-care legislation through the Senate without Republican support may be undercut by some Democrats whose support they need.

In a special election for a Congressional seat in a solidly Democratic part of San Francisco, health care has been a topic of choice for several candidates.

Japan’s opposition party returned to power on a pledge to a shift away from deregulation and market-led growth.

The end of economic decline and political stagnation will take real leadership, not just trading one group of politicians for another.

CQPolitics.com - Under heavy criticism from Democrats for the strong social conservatism detailed in a 1989 thesis, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell said voters on Nov. 3 will be swayed by his record as a public official and not for what he called an "academic exercise."

Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley said Monday he remains hopeful a limited health care reform measure can be negotiated, but that a small bipartisan group of senators working on the issue agrees a government-run public option won't be part of the package.

In a Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009 file photo, former Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson walks to federal court in Alexandria, Va.

AP - Virginia's Republican candidate for governor said Monday he no longer believes his argument in a graduate thesis written 20 years ago that discrimination against gays and other groups is acceptable for the benefit of straight, married couples.