The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four others who will be tried in U.S. criminal court will be moved from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to a federal detention facility in New York, the Justice Department said on Friday.

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four other men accused in the plot will be prosecuted in federal court in New York City, a federal law enforcement official said early on Friday.

As health care legislation moves to the Senate, there is a growing criticism that the measure doesn't fulfill President Obama’s promise to slow runaway health care costs, the New York Times reports.

Urged on by President Barack Obama, Democratic leaders in the U.S. House hustled Thursday to round up support for a sweeping health care overhaul headed to a close floor vote Saturday.

Republican party economic orthodoxy may be ready for a shift, says the New York Times' David Leonhart.

With bad home mortgages  on the back burner, the big threat to the economy is now believed to be troubled credit card, commercial real estate and commercial industrial debt.

As many as 350 dogs have been seized and about 30 people arrested in raids across five states that animal welfare groups are calling the largest simultaneous raid of dogfighting operations in the U.S.

The Senate has voted to give the government extensive new powers to decide how tobacco companies will make and market their products. Supporters say that could spare millions from smoking addiction and premature death.

There are two basic truths about the enormous deficits that the federal government will run in the coming years. The first is that President Obama’s agenda is responsible for only a sliver of the deficits. The second is that Mr. Obama does not have a realistic plan for eliminating the deficit.

People gawked and cameras clicked as the Obamas cut a wide figure through the French capital even while confined to a presidential motorcade.

Get ready folks: America is about to own a car company. As of Monday, we the taxpayers will own more than 70 percent of GM. Whether the company will be formally renamed Government Motors remains to be seen. But that’s what it will be.

Former President George W. Bush says what he misses most since leaving the White House is the inspiration he drew from his encounters with U.S. military personnel.

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Tuesday he is encouraged that the Obama administration accepts some U.S. responsibility for drug violence ravaging Mexico.