Posted: 5:57 AM Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faces tough questions in her long-awaited congressional testimony concerning the assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi

Updated: 1:33 PM President Barack Obama's emphatic gay-rights advocacy in his inaugural address thrilled many activists. Yet almost immediately came the questions and exhortations as to what steps should be taken next.

Updated: 1:36 PM Gen. John Allen says he is pleased that he was exonerated in a Pentagon investigation into his email exchanges with a Florida socialite linked to the sex scandal that led David Petraeus to resign as CIA director.

Posted: 5:51 AM Joe Biden is thanking Democratic supporters in the afterglow of President Barack Obama's second inauguration, dropping plenty of hints that he may try to cement Obama's legacy with his own presidential campaign in 2016.

Posted: 5:49 AM The Obama administration says it won't oppose a House Republican proposal to increase the nation's $16.4 trillion borrowing authority for only three months

Posted: 5:47 AM Campaign finance reports filed Tuesday show Clinton's campaign made payments of $73,000 on Dec. 31 to a consulting firm run by former adviser and pollster Mark Penn.

Posted: 5:46 AM President Barack Obama is thanking White House aides and his re-election campaign staffers at the final celebration of his inauguration.

Posted: 1:51 PM On Wednesday, Hilary Clinton will testify before the committee about the terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans on Sept. 11, 2012.

Posted: 6:59 AM President Barack Obama devoted one word — "deficit" — to the issue that brought Washington to the brink of fiscal crises time and again during his first term.

Posted: 6:51 AM Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and Republican Rep. Ed Royce, two men stand at the forefront of Congress' changing guard on foreign policy.

Posted: 6:48 AM Four years ago, President Barack Obama and his staff spent the first day in the White House learning the basics

Posted: 6:46 AM Obama pledged in his inaugural speech to respond to what he called the threat of climate change, saying, "Failure to do so would betray our children and future generations."

Posted: 6:43 AM The nation's high school graduation rate is the highest since 1976, but more than a fifth of students are still failing to get their diploma in four years, the Education Department said in a study released Tuesday.

Posted: 6:38 AM As crowds descended and the inauguration unfolded, a few museum curators in Washington kept watch for symbols and messages that would make history.

Posted: 6:32 AM Crowded subway stations and a disabled train caused major headaches Monday for thousands of rail riders trying to get home from President Barack Obama's second inauguration.

Posted: 6:18 AM True, the crowd was roughly half that of Obama's momentous inauguration in 2009, and the sense of history, and pure excitement, far less potent.

Posted: 5:30 AM Gov. Bill Haslam has no public events scheduled this week as he prepares to deliver his annual State of the State address.

Posted: 1:35 PM Declaring "our journey is not complete," President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term before a crowd of hundreds of thousands Monday

Updated: 7:06 AM The district's homeland security director, Chris Geldart, said Sunday that officials now expect between 500,000 and 700,000 people to attend. That's fewer than the 600,000 to 800,000 people initially anticipated.

Updated: 7:05 AM Latinos are taking a more prominent role in President Barack Obama's second inauguration, from the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice swearing in the vice president to a star-studded concert celebrating Latino culture.

Posted: 7:03 AM For all the talk about fewer celebrities making it to Washington this time for the inauguration, you would have had a hard time not bumping into one — literally — at a packed downtown restaurant Sunday evening.

Posted: 7:02 AM President Barack Obama has rendered his opinion on what he called the most significant event of inaugural weekend: his wife's new haircut.

Posted: 6:44 AM President Barack Obama has prepared a second inaugural address that broadly lays out his vision for the country's future

Posted: 6:41 AM Democrats are looking to make new revenue part of the Senate's first budget in almost four years, which will be released soon after the start of President Barack Obama's second term.

Posted: 6:40 AM The Obama administration says it's confident stricter gun laws can be passed, but it's hedging its optimism by stressing just how politically difficult it will be.