If snow keeps 230,000 government employees home for the better part of a week, will anyone notice? With at least another foot of snow headed for Washington, Philadelphia and New York, we're about to find out.

Democratic former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder is urging President Barack Obama to fire Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, another former Virginia governor.

Snow blew across the Midwest on Tuesday and headed for the hard-hit Mid-Atlantic region, where federal government offices have been closed since last week and utility workers struggled to restore power already knocked out by a weekend blizzard.

Navigational locks and gates in Chicago-area waterways crucial for shipping may be opened less frequently than usual under a $78.5 million campaign to prevent Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes, federal officials said Monday.

First lady Michelle Obama says President Barack Obama "has done a phenomenal job," but that people have a right to criticize him.

Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama has released the "holds" he had placed on every one of President Barack Obama's nominees, his office said Monday.

It looks like Sarah Palin has been caught red handed. During the National Tea Party Convention that took place over the weekend, former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin was invited and paid $100,000 to deliver a speech to the convention.

John Murtha and called his fellow Democrat a steadfast advocate for the people of Pennsylvania for nearly 40 years.

It has been suggested by Afghan villagers that the Taliban may be preparing for a major offensive against NATO targets.

Federal workers may have the day off in the snow-covered nation's capital, but President Barack Obama still has meetings to attend.

The state is to get $400 million in federal stimulus money to restore passenger train service among its major cities, part of a plan to build a national high-speed rail network.

Taliban militants are digging in ahead of a major NATO operation in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, in one of the biggest offensives in the eight-year-old war.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is predicting Democratic Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias will be outspent by his Republican foe.

Top Republicans in Congress were told the suspect in the failed Christmas airline bombing was in FBI custody hours after his arrest, and none asked if he would be transferred to military custody, President Barack Obama's assistant on homeland security and counter-terrorism said Sunday.

President Barack Obama and the first lady are ready for some football. The first couple will host a Super Bowl party Sunday for lawmakers, Cabinet members and service members who were injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their families.

Republican Gov. Charlie Crist was all about hugs Saturday a ' hugging his mother, scores of supporters, children and even an English bulldog named Scooter.

Top finance officials of the seven major industrial countries sought to calm jittery markets by pledging Saturday to keep providing government aid to sustain a fledgling economic rebound.

The head of the National Black Farmers Association is urging African-American farmers to strongly lobby lawmakers to get them to approve a $1.15 billion discrimination settlement.

Activists of the grassroots Tea Party phenomenon which exploded in reaction to Barack Obama's economic policies are gathering for their first national meeting.

Tom Tancredo wants voters to have to pass a civics and literacy test. Former congressman Tom Tancredo took heat Friday for remarks at the national Tea Party convention that critics viewed as calling for a return to Jim Crow laws.