A conservative group's bashing of several Obama administration lawyers as the al-Qaida Seven has struck a nerve in the U.S. legal community, prompting even some fellow Republicans to denounce the group's attack.

The body of former Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos was reburied on Thursday, three months to the day after it was dug up from its grave and stolen in an apparent extortion bid.

AP - Two former members of the famed Vienna Boys' Choir say they were sexually abused by their supervisors, a top Austrian newspaper reported Thursday, as allegations of misconduct against children in Austria spread beyond the Roman Catholic Church.

AP - The CEO of bailed-out auto finance giant GMAC Inc. will receive no cash salary for 2010 and will be compensated in restricted stock, under a deal approved by Obama administration pay czar Kenneth Feinberg, according to people familiar with the matter.

WASHINGTON — Long-awaited Senate legislation that would direct the broadest overhaul of financial regulation since the Great Depression will be introduced on Monday without any Republican support, despite weeks of bipartisan negotiations.

CQPolitics.com - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he is leaving it up to his caucus to decide whether to wrap a health care overhaul and a student loan bill into a single budget reconciliation package.

23 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.’s handling of recalls came under mounting criticism on the eve of the automaker’s U.S. congressional testimony, including charges that the company misled the public on the adequacy of its recalls.

In many ways, this is the most interesting, and most bizarre, of Iraq's political players. The Islamic bloc brings together Iraq's two leading Shiite

The top 15 special interest campaign contributors to California politics spent more than $1 billion in the last decade to shape state policy, according to

But the political climate has shifted since Pelosi's statement. Democrats find themselves on the defensive as Republicans lob accusations of fiscal