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Byline: AMY SCHATZ AND AMOL SHARMA U.S. federal regulators approved two mergers of wireless companies, along with a plan to open up vacant TV airwaves for broader free use in [...]

Byline: AMY SCHATZ LANDOVER, MD. -- After eight months of testing, a plan to employ unused TV channels to provide cheap, high-speed wireless Internet networks still faces determined opposition and [...]

Byline: AMOL SHARMA AND AMY SCHATZ The U.S.'s largest wireless carriers, AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, dominated the bidding at the government's recent auction of radio spectrum, putting them in [...]

AT&T Inc. of the United States is to purchase BellSouth Corp. also of the United States, assuming $22 billion in debt. The acquisition will make AT&T Corp. the largest telecommunications operator in the world, with a market capitalization of approximately $170 billion.

For the third time, UAL Corp. has failed to secure a government loan guarantee in its bankruptcy reorganization plan. UAl, which is the parent company of United Airlines, must raise $2 billion in order to leave bankruptcy-court protection.

Washington --- President Bush signed legislation Monday creating a Department of Homeland Security and launching the largest government reorganization since 1947. 'The continuing threat of terrorism, the threat of mass [...]

Washington --- For President Bush, homeland security has been the issue that keeps on giving. Bush's nonstop campaigning for the new Cabinet-level department not only helped defeat incumbent Senate Democrats [...]

Washington --- Former President Jimmy Carter returned to his old office in the White House on Monday, this time as a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Noting that Carter had spent [...]

Washington --- President Bush on Tuesday struck a deal in the Senate for his new Department of Homeland Security, wasting no time exerting control over a lame-duck Congress. Just a [...]

Washington --- President Bush began Veterans Day with an unannounced, early morning visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall a few blocks from the White House. Clad in [...]

Washington --- Congressional Democrats apparently will elect liberal California Rep. Nancy Pelosi on Thursday to succeed Richard Gephardt as the party's leader in the House. If elected in the secret [...]

Washington --- When a Democratic congressional staff member found a computer disk with White House political mastermind Karl Rove's midterm election plan in a Washington park six months ago, Democrats [...]

Washington --- Nowhere has the recession been felt so keenly this election season as in the nation's statehouses. Governors and state lawmakers are struggling with budget deficits and cutting services. [...]

Washington --- The Securities and Exchange Commission ordered an investigation into the selection of William H. Webster to head the new accounting oversight board after learning Thursday that Chairman Harvey [...]

Washington --- President Bush, arguing that the confirmation process for judicial nominations has become too 'poisoned and polarized,' Wednesday announced a plan to speed it up. The proposal would impose [...]

Washington --- The Securities and Exchange Commission's new board to oversee the accounting industry is hardly off to the most auspicious start. But one member, Charles Niemeier, chief accountant in [...]

Washington --- In little more than a week, political ads disappear, voters head to the polls and President Bush returns to the White House. Until then, White House officials are [...]

Washington --- In an about-face, the Bush administration said Wednesday it plans to explore the possibility of creating a national database to track individual guns. On Tuesday, White House officials [...]

Washington --- The sniper shootings in the Washington area have revived interest in creating a national database to track individual guns, but President Bush isn't ready to sign on, White [...]

Washington --- President Bush will spend nearly every day until the election on the campaign trail at fund-raisers and get-out-the-vote events for Republican candidates, White House officials said Thursday. Bush [...]

Washington --- Either Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) is considering a run at the presidency in 2004 or he really is interested that Bob Dvorsky of Coralville, Iowa, wins a state [...]

Nashville --- President Bush used a luncheon fund-raiser for U.S. Senate candidate Lamar Alexander to encourage the Senate to approve his Department of Homeland Security plan to include flexibility in [...]

Nashville --- President Bush never stops campaigning, even while overseeing a global war on terrorism and contemplating war on Iraq. On Monday, Bush raised $225,000 for a candidate in Iowa. [...]

Washington --- It doesn't attract as much attention or money as its Democratic counterpart. But WISH List, a political action committee devoted to helping female Republican candidates who support abortion [...]

Washington --- Michigan Democrat John Dingell had not faced a serious primary challenger since being elected to Congress in 1955. It is why Dingell's struggle this summer to beat fellow [...]

Washington --- Just hours before President Bush arrived at the United Nations to denounce Saddam Hussein, the White House released a 21-page report detailing examples of why action must be [...]