Mark Silva

President Bush delivered the ceremonial first pitch at the season opener of the Washington Nationals. Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images by Mark Silva More cheers than...

by Mark Silva Dick Cheney, home from a 10-day tour that ranged from Iraq and Afghanistan to Turkey and Saudi Arabia, "is not your regular road warrior.'' So writes Deb...

For McCain, the general election campaign already is underway. by Mark Silva Sen. John McCain's "Straight Talk Express'' will roll out for a nostalgia tour this week, a bus-storming tour...

by Mark Silva A debate over the long-term role of the government in a fast-changing economy will play out this year in the midst of an immediate housing crisis, and...

by Mark Silva Hillary Clinton says she's in the presidential race until the end of the party primaries, and until there is a resolution of the barred delegates from the...

by Mark Silva "Just relax,'' former President Bill Clinton says to people calling for his wife, the senator from New York, to quit the Democratic presidential contest. Clinton was marching...

by Mark Silva Former Sen. John Edwards, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2004 and a candidate for president in this year's early primaries, today declined to get in...

by Mark Silva Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Monday will propose a far-reaching streamlining of the federal regulation of U.S. financial markets – involving everything from mortgages and insurance to...

by Mark Silva That economic stimulus check will soon be in the mail. Or in your direct deposit. It cost the government some $40 million to mail the letters that...

President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley outside the West Wing today.Rice spoke about the paradox of racial issues in America but said: "I...