While Internet giants staged a massive online protest against proposed anti-piracy legislation, hundreds gathered in New York for an in-person show of opposition.
A group of Senate Democrats sent a letter to a big job-hunting website this week, asking the company to quit running help-wanted ads from companies that bar the unemployed from applying for jobs.
Flanked by parents whose children were killed in automobile accidents, congressional lawmakers Tuesday again launched a campaign for federal licensing standards for teenage drivers.
In between consoling those touched by Saturday's Arizona shooting and warning the nation against politicizing the tragedy, President Barack Obama delivered some good news in his address at a Tucson memorial event on Wednesday.
The wounded congresswoman's husband expresses hope she'll soon be up and walking, a friend says
Senate Democrats on Wednesday introduced legislation that would tighten rules on the use of the filibuster in the legislative chamber.
On September 11, 2001, when thousands of innocent men and women lost their lives, tens of thousands more came to their assistance.
The Scottish government was "never, at any point" lobbied by oil giant BP to release convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, according to a letter sent late Wednesday by Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry.
A Department of Justice official was noncommittal Tuesday in a letter responding to a Senate committee's request that the department open a criminal inquiry into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen will meet with other members of the Joint Chiefs on Monday to discuss President Obama's plan to repeal the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy for gay and lesbian service members, according to two U.S. military officials.
President Obama said Wednesday night he will work with Congress and the military to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bars gays and lesbians from openly serving in the armed forces.
A key U.S. Senate committee will hold a hearing on the military's controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays and lesbians, according to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat.
At 8:30 a.m., Kirsten Gillibrand looks like any other working mom in a minivan dropping off her baby boy at day care and her other son at school.
Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand reflects on how other moms cope with parenthood.
It took nearly a month, but Democrat Scott Murphy has won the battle for New York's 20th Congressional District.
With no winner yet in Tuesday's special election for New York's 20th Congressional District, both Democrats and Republicans are trying to project confidence -- and lower expectations.
Newly minted New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand remains a mystery to millions of her constituents and is facing a possibly titanic 2010 Democratic primary fight, according a new survey.
Since the election last November, five vacant Senate seats have been filled by appointments. Awkwardly.
The big news in New York politics is not that Caroline Kennedy, a deeply private person, preferred to be in private life.
Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand pays tribute to Hillary Clinton while accepting a U.S. Senate appointment.
New York Gov. David Paterson said Sunday that Caroline Kennedy received "no signal from me that she had to withdraw" from her campaign to fill Hillary Clinton's vacant U.S. Senate.
The political circus surrounding the selection of New York's next senator is over -- at least for the next two years.
New York Gov. David Paterson on Friday appointed relatively unknown U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate.
CNN's Mary Snow takes a look at the remaining contenders for the New York senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton.
New York Gov. David Paterson has chosen Democratic Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand to succeed Hillary Clinton as U.S. Senator from New York, multiple Democratic sources told CNN Friday.
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