Mark Silva

by Mark Silva At the State Department today, on this day when so many have spoken about the 4,000 American military men and women lost in Iraq, President Bush paused...

Vice President Dick Cheney, wife Lynne and daughter Liz step off Air Force Two upon arrival in Ankara, Turkey, today, wrapping up a nine-day tour of war zones and the...

by Mark Silva Vice President Dick Cheney today was asked about the 4,000 American military fataltities in the war in Iraq. "You regret every casualty, every loss,'' he said. "The...

by Mark Silva Talk about going back to square one. On the national front, Democrats are virtually evenly split over the candidacies of Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the...

by Mark Silva Gordon Fischer, former chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party and a co-chair of Sen. Barack Obama's campaign in Iowa, already has apologized today for a "tasteless'' blue-dress...

by Mark Silva The war in Iraq has faded from the forefront of the presidential campaign. But today, the war is on the minds of candidates promising to end it....

by Mark Silva Sen. Barack Obama decided to take a few days off for the Easter holiday weekend without saying where he was headed. The Associated Press says he has...

by Mark Silva and updated with Obama response Sen. Hillary Clinton, pushing for a big win in Pennsylvania's primary election, is attempting to wrap her "Day One'' readiness for the...

by Andrew Malcolm Last month we had the flap over whether members of the public could use the actual middle name of Barack Hussein Obama openly because the Arabic-sounding, maybe-he-really-is-a-Muslim...

by Mark Silva There are the best of times, and the worst of times, for Washington lobbyists. Their lobbying revenue for the past year is likely to approach $2.9 billion...