Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was remembered Saturday as a man who loved God, country and family at a funeral Mass capping two days of mourning for a jurist who left a long and sometimes provocative legacy on the nation.
Scalia's son Paul - a Catholic priest - led the service and mixed humor with reverence for the conservative icon and father of nine who died unexpectedly last weekend
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President Barack Obama has arrived at the Supreme Court to pay his respects to the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walked to the casket and stood silently for less than a minute. They both have bowed their heads and closed their eyes...
Beau Biden, who followed his father, Vice President Joe Biden, into politics and was twice elected attorney general of Delaware, died Saturday of brain cancer nearly two years after he was first diagnosed. Beau Biden was 46.
The younger Biden, who suffered from various health problems in recent years, was hospitalized this month at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for then-undisclosed
(Associated Press) - President Obama has signed a disaster declaration for Massachusetts and ordered federal aid to help the state recover from the blizzard that hit the region from Jan. 26-28.
Federal Emergency Management Agency officials issued the declaration Monday after Gov...
President Barack Obama says American politicians in an era of partisanship should try to carry themselves more the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Obama was speaking at the formal dedication of an institute named for Kennedy in Boston...
Optimistic Republicans assumed full control of Congress on Tuesday for the first time in eight years in a day of pomp, circumstance and raw politics beneath the Capitol Dome.
Before the new Congress was two hours old, a veto showdown with President Barack Obama was set as the White House announced he would reject legislation approving the long-stalled Keystone XL pipeline, which Republicans intend
A New York City Police Officer gunned down with his partner one week ago in Brooklyn, was laid to rest Saturday following a funeral service attended by thousands of law enforcement personnel from all over the country. Among those attending the funeral in the Glendale section of New York were Vice President Joe Biden and at least fifty officers from Police Departments in Southeastern Massachusetts
Vice President Joe Biden says the U.S. shouldn't think of unaccompanied children showing up at the border as someone else's children. He says "These are our kids."
President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are touting job training programs. Speaking at a community college in Pennsylvania, the President said more people need to be trained for better jobs. He unveiled plans to provide hundreds of millions of dollars for job training programs...