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One day last winter Margarite posed naked before her bathroom mirror, held up her cellphone and took a picture. Then she sent the full-length frontal

Total national health spending grew by 4 percent in 2009, the slowest rate of increase in 50 years. Read the full story from The New

Vin Weber, a former Republican representative and now a prominent Washington lobbyist, talked about the new Republican majority in the House. Read the full story

The newly elected House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday promised a new era of transparency while vowing to push forward the conservative agenda that swept

The $14.4-billion program has been hurt by delays and cost overruns, and a view that amphibious assaults have grown less effective. Read the full story

House Republican leaders are scaling back a goal to cut $100 billion from domestic spending, aides say, because the fiscal year will be nearly half

This is President Obama’s second attempt to name someone to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Read the full story from The New

Rights group opposes restricting the transfer of Guantanamo detainees. President is urged to consider vetoing legislation. Read the full story from The New York Times.

The president’s outreach to the chamber is part of a strategy for the second part of his term of emphasizing business-friendly policies. Read the full

President Obama on Wednesday was scheduled to meet with William Daley, the former commerce secretary in the Clinton administration who has emerged as the leading