John Moritz

About an hour before the crowds began to arrive in Washington’s Union Station for the morning rush hour, about 50 people stood in line in a muggy third-floor garage, waiting for a Megabus to take them to Charlotte, N.C.

The mystery of the missing government emails has spread to the EPA.

The FBI recovered 168 children and arrested 281 people on pimping charges during a nationwide sting coordinated through federal, state and local law enforcement agencies last week, the bureau announced Monday, part of a decade-long effort to combat child sex trafficking.

Republican lawmakers from states reliant on coal production and coal-powered energy challenged a top administration official Thursday, questioning the legality and effects of new standards to reduce carbon pollution through the nation’s power plants.

Senators challenged the nation’s top military leaders Wednesday over the recent chaos in Iraq, asking how Iraqi troops could be fleeing their posts after the United States spent billions training and equipping them.

In a move that’s sure to please train enthusiasts, the 2014 Christmas ornament from the White House Historical Association will be a two-piece locomotive and rail car to commemorate the fateful last voyage of President Warren G. Harding.

When President Barack Obama meets with congressional leaders Wednesday about the deteriorating situation in Iraq, he’ll hear plenty of agreement that something must be done _ but little consensus about what that should be.

Efforts from the White House to rally opposition to legislation in the House of Representatives offering one-year waivers from school lunch nutritional guidelines are not indicative of public opinion on federal regulation of school lunches, a new poll found.

Debate in Washington over a controversial school lunch waiver has spread into the Bluegrass State, where proponents say the innocuous proposal helps rural schools, and which critics argue threatens years of work combating one of the nation’s largest childhood obesity rates.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday vehemently defended the deal that freed Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in sharp and at times angry exchanges with Republican lawmakers during the first open hearing on the controversial swap of war prisoners.

The White House has dispatched senior officials to brief lawmakers in closed sessions at least three times in the 11 days since Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was released from Taliban captivity, but President Barack Obama’s efforts to assuage members of Congress -- even fellow Democrats -- seem to have changed few minds.

A bipartisan group of influential senators sent Attorney General Eric Holder a letter Tuesday urging him to launch a criminal investigation of data falsification to cover up long waiting times and other alleged problems at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals.

WASHINGTON The Obama administration suggested Monday that the deal to swap five Taliban detainees for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl could rekindle peace negotiations between the terrorist group and Afghan government.

The move was aimed as much at disgruntled Democrats as it was at Republicans angry over the terms of the deal that gained Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release Saturday after five years in captivity.