WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Tuesday expanded the U.S. watchlist of countries suspected of not doing enough to combat human trafficking, putting more than four dozen nations on notice that they might face sanctions unless their records improve.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are lining up behind a pointed political attack line: President Barack Obama is nationalizing American industry and socializing medicine.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The re-election of Iran’s hardline president and a tough speech by Israel’s hawkish prime minister signaled an increasingly difficult road ahead for President Barack Obama’s hopes for ending Tehran’s nuclear threat and brokering peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration said Friday it is prepared to confront ships believed to be carrying contraband materials to North Korea but will not try to forcibly board them, in accordance with new U.N. sanctions.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent legislation to the White House Friday granting the federal government unprecedented authority to regulate and restrict cigarettes, the single largest cause of preventable death.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is taking a half-step toward taming U.S. executive pay. Some lawmakers prefer a fuller stride.

Nearly three months after American International Group bonuses provoked an angry reaction in Congress, the Obama administration is ready to issue broad new principles on how to compensate top financial sector executives.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration plans to use a combination of new technology and old-fashioned police work to crack down on the extensive drug trade along the U.S.-Mexican border.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration plans to use a combination of new technology and old-fashioned police work to crack down on the extensive drug trade along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Text of President Barack Obama’s speech at Cairo University in Egypt.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama named a Republican congressman Tuesday to be the next secretary of the Army, bringing another member of the opposition into his administration.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Expanding his drive to open government, President Barack Obama is ordering two studies of whether the government is classifying too much information and using too many different ways to keep it from public view.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The battle is on between conservative and liberal interest groups to define little-known federal judge Sonia Sotomayor before senators — away from the capital on a weeklong break — return to weigh in on the fate of the woman who would be the Supreme Court’s first Hispanic.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama granted the Pentagon new power to rein in wasteful defense spending Friday, a change he said was long overdue.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is backing President Barack Obama’s efforts to ramp up the war in Afghanistan, granting his request for $91.3 billion for military and diplomatic operations there and in Iraq.