WASHINGTON - It wasn't a concert with the latest boy band – or a movie premiere – or the release of a new Michael Jordan shoe. It was Hillary Rodham Clinton. And hundreds of people lined up Thursday to see her. Clinton arrived at the Trover Shop bookstore, two blocks from the U.S. ..

A father and son sit on a bench gazing at the White House with the Washington Monument towering behind them, a school teacher leads a group of anxious seventh graders up Pennsylvania Avenue for the kids' first look at the White House and a group of travelers from London stroll by in the ..

WASHINGTON – The Veterans Affairs Department gave a shot in the arm Wednesday to a proposed move of the veterans hospital in Denver to Fitzsimons, but obstacles still remain.Robert H. Roswell, under secretary of veterans affairs for health, chose his words carefully as he addressed the House ..

Calculus, cows, dogs, a punch in the nose and, of course, politics figure in the memories Washington politicians have of their fathers. Reporters asked members of the House and Senate to recall some of the most memorable experiences with their fathers, stories they shared with both joy and sorrow. ..

“Fútbol” is the word in Spanish, soccer the word in English, and that sport is sometimes the passport for South-American undergraduates to study at universities in United States.Although no one keeps track of how many South Americans are playing for U.S. college teams, there are players at a ..

WASHINGTON – Tom Beardall of Newton, Mass., took a walking tour of the city's U Street neighborhood Tuesday, blocks away from the museums and monuments that attract most visitors to the nation's capital.“I've been to Washington before, but I usually just hang out at the ..

WASHINGTON - Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., has sharply criticized plans to offer an additional child tax credit to lower-income families, which include among its strongest supporters freshman Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala.In an interview Monday, Bachus reiterated his opposition to what he called a ..

POTOMAC, Md. -- Troy Matteson may be making his PGA tour debut at this week's FBR Capital Open, but the 22-year-old civil engineer fresh out of Georgia Tech seemed to be right at home in 21st place after two rounds at the TPC of Avenel."You're dreams are realized," Matteson said after his ..

WASHINGTON - One reporter may have single-handedly changed the way journalism is policed and practiced, six experienced journalists agreed Wednesday as they discussed The New York Times and Jayson Blair scandal.But they disagreed on how The Times might have prevented Blair's falsifications and on ..

Marriage would not include gay and lesbian unions if a new constitutional amendment sponsored by Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., is approved. The amendment would effectively take marriage out of the states and local courts' hands. Less than six months into her first term, Musgrave has sponsored ..