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A radical Muslim cleric with suspected links to al-Qaida considered himself a confidant of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused in the Fort Hood shootings, The Washington Post reported Monday.
As they campaigned together across Virginia on Thursday and Friday, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele praised Robert F. McDonnell, the state's GOP gubernatorial candidate, as an innovative leader.
The Washington Post Co. increased its net income 69 percent in the third quarter, as the company cut costs to narrow losses at its newspapers and kept reaping profit from its cable TV and education divisions.
A former Marine who fought in Iraq and became a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan has resigned in a high-profile protest of the Afghan war.
Journalism is at risk and American society must act to preserve it, according to a report co-authored by The Washington Post's former executive editor.
The Washington Post is introducing a larger typeface and more graphics in its bid to make the print edition easier to read and navigate.
Republican Bob McDonnell holds a lead of 9 percentage points over his Democratic rival in Virginia's governor's race 27 days before the election, according to a Washington Post poll published Thursday.
The Washington Post and Bloomberg News are teaming up in a new partnership that will distribute their political and financial coverage to a broader audience.
The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post are breaking up their news service after 47 years, making it the latest casualty of the media upheaval driven by the array of alternative information and entertainment sources on the Internet.
During the mortgage boom the Federal Reserve refused to regulate leading banks’ businesses wholly focused on making loans at high interest rates, largely in the black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
The controversial communications chief for the National Endowment of the Arts resigned Thursday after drawing fire from Republican senators for recruiting artists to create works that promoted President Barack Obama's policies, The Washington Post reported.
The Washington Post delayed publishing a story about a general's Afghanistan report after the Obama administration expressed concerns that it could put U.S. troops at risk, the newspaper said Tuesday.
The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan has reported to President Barack Obama that without more troops the U.S. risks failure in a war it's been waging since September 2001.
The Washington Post says a marketing executive who helped organize a plan to offer discussions with government officials and the newspaper's journalists has resigned.
Here's your chance to help figure out who has been visiting the White House during the early months of the Obama administration.
The Obama administration says it will release information on most visitors to the White House, starting at the end of this year. Msnbc.com's Bill Dedman reports.
In its latest cost-cutting move, The Washington Post's owner is scrapping an experimental Web site that provided more news coverage about events happening around the neighborhoods of a Virginia suburb.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney believes his old boss, President George W. Bush, gradually turned away from his advice during their second term in the White House, showing a surprising independence as he started taking more flexible positions on a range of issues, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Two Washington Post journalists are apologizing and their satirical online video series has been canceled following criticism of a joke they told about Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., blocked the release of a favorable State Department report on Mexico's human rights record, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The Washington Post Co. turned a profit in the second quarter, reversing a year-earlier loss as growth in its education and cable TV divisions helped offset declines in newspaper, magazine and broadcast revenue. The company's shares surged.
The Washington Post's publisher apologized to readers Sunday for a plan to charge business leaders and lobbyists for intimate dinner discussions with government officials and the newspaper's journalists.
The Washington Post asked lobbyists and business leaders to pay $25,000 to attend a dinner discussion with government officials and journalists at the home of its publisher, and then canceled the event after the invitations became public.
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Friday lowered its corporate credit and senior unsecured issue-level ratings on Washington Post Co. to A from A+.
The union representing editorial and other employees at The Washington Post has overwhelmingly ratified a two-year contract that will let the newspaper protect a quarter of its workers from any layoffs, regardless of seniority.
Blacks hit hard by economy's punchJoblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions - 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population.
Climate change fears spark 'new nuclear age'Nuclear power - long considered environmentally hazardous - is emerging as perhaps the world's most unlikely weapon against climate change.
Tracking tech-savvy sex offenders gets trickierThe crackdown on child pornography and other sex offenses has created manpower shortages and technology challenges for probation officers, police and federal agents.
Lawyer: Hasan 'has no sensation' below chestThe Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood is paralyzed from the chest down and doctors believe his paralysis will be permanent, his lawyer said.
U.S., Mexico align against brutal narcotics tradeAfter decades of mistrust and sometimes betrayal, Mexican and U.S. authorities are increasingly setting aside their differences to unite against a common enemy.
Nerves fray at Fort Hood as deployment nearsFor some in a Fort Hood platoon that lost three in the on-base attack, anxiety is heightened ahead of an early January deployment to Afghanistan.
Hasan had intensified contact with clericArmy Maj. Nidal M. Hasan exchanged e-mails with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers, according to two sources.
The U.S.'s softer tact on Afghanistan's KarzaiObama's top diplomats and generals are abandoning for now their get-tough tactics with Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai and attempting to forge a far warmer relationship.
Angry Congress lashes out at ObamaGrowing discontent over the economy, recovery efforts turn into a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the administration.
On warming, peat is the 'elephant in the room'A vast and often smoldering layer of coal-black peat has made Indonesia the world's third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after
Afghan minister accused of receiving huge bribeOfficial took $30 million payoff from Chinese mining firm for development project, U.S. official says.
Report: Health bill would reduce senior careThe House plan to slash $500 billion from Medicare may also curb access to providers, nonpartisan agency says.
In China, U.S. strikes conciliatory toneAnalysis: The U.S. tone toward Beijing is now much more conciliatory, signaling a dramatic change in the power dynamic over the past decade
Centrist in health debate hears it from all sidesWhen the Senate begins floor debate on health-care reform, the outcome will likely rest on a handful of moderate Democrats, chief among them Arkansas' Blanche Lincoln.
Astrologer threatened over 'horror-scope'A prominent prognosticator faces death threats after forecasting that Sri Lanka's president would be booted from office or killed.
Boy, 9, gunned down in own apartmentOscar Fuentes was known to run outside at the sound of a bouncing basketball. Friendly? You bet. Annoying? At times. On Saturday, the 9-year-old was shot dead in his D.C. home.
For Pakistani president, goodbye to goodwillPresident Asif Ali Zardari, who entered office 14 months ago on a wave of post-dictatorship goodwill, now faces growing public anger and disillusionment over his remote presidency.
U.S., China trapped in mutual financial relianceThe U.S. and Chinese economies have become intertwined, locked in a kind of co-dependency that neither side thinks is particularly healthy, but which neither will move to break.
Report: Health bill would reduce senior careThe House plan to slash $500 billion from Medicare may also curb access to providers, nonpartisan agency says.
Chinese talk about racism ahead of Obama tripAs China gets ready to welcome the first African American U.S. president, Chinese are confronting their attitudes toward race, including some deeply held prejudices about black people.
The Chinese are 'changing us'On a visit to China, President Barack Obama will encounter not simply a rising global power but a nation that is transforming the way Americans live, from classrooms to offices to the farms of Wisconsin.
Scientist: China gave Pakistan nuke blueprintIn 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left China with enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs, according to accounts written by the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.
Afghan Taliban surpasses weakened al-QaidaAs violence rises in Afghanistan, the power balance between insurgent groups has shifted, with a weakened al-Qaida relying increasingly on the Taliban, U.S. officials say.
Britain eyes new generation of nuclear plantsThe British government unveiled plans Monday to launch one of the world's most ambitious expansions of nuclear-power capacity, calling for the construction of 10 plants.
Fort Hood suspect warned of threats in ranksMaj. Nidal M. Hasan gave hour-long lecture on Islam, suicide bombers and threats the military could encounter from Muslims conflicted about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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