Parties and Movements

(Reuters) - In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's cash-hungry capital city, local political battles are waged much as they are across the United States: with big personalities and bare-knuckled verbal brawls. But unlike most cities, Harrisburg's financial...

Jamie Dimon has withstood a proposal to split his jobs at chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co. At the bank's annual meeting Tuesday, shareholders gave the chairman and CEO a wider vote of confidence than last year at this time. Just 32....

WASHINGTON — As the Internal Revenue Service's last two directors struggled to provide answers Tuesday about the agency's improper scrutiny of conservative groups, a lawyer for another key IRS official said she would invoke the 5th Amendment...

Anne Arundel County lawmakers spent nearly $42,000 of state money on dining and driving during the 2013 General Assembly session. The county's 10 Republican state senators and delegates claimed nearly $25,000 in reimbursements from Maryland for meals...

Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan is poised to continue his unfettered rise through the ranks of Lehigh Valley politics, easily sidestepping Glenn Reibman's hopes for another shot to be Northampton County executive. Political observers forecasted a...

The Lehigh County conservative fiscal movement got a boost Tuesday as Republican voters nominated Scott Ott for county executive. Ott easily cleared the primary hurdle, grabbing 56 percent of the unofficial votes to Browning's 44 percent with 88 percent...

The public agency that owns U.S. Cellular Field agreed Tuesday to pay the legal expenses of its ex-chairman, former Gov. Jim Thompson, in a federal lawsuit brought against him last month by the agency's former executive director. The Illinois Sports...

The just completed federal criminal trial of Robert Braddock, a fundraiser for former Speaker of the House Christopher Donovan's unsuccessful 2012 congressional campaign, revealed corruption at the highest levels of the General Assembly. Law enforcement...

WASHINGTON — When Sen. Orrin G. Hatch took his seat on the dais for the Senate Judiciary Committee's debates on the immigration reform bill, the 79-year-old was not just one of 18 senators. He was the most sought-after vote. A towering but genteel...

WASHINGTON — During the 2010 campaign, Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat from Sherman Oaks, joked, "Every time I try to encourage the White House to do more to help us elect Democrats to the House of Representatives, I send them a picture of Darrell...

What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...

A JPMorgan Chase & Co. shareholder proposal to split the bank's chairman and chief executive roles -- now both held by Jamie Dimon -- failed to win a majority's support Tuesday. The proposal to split Dimon's jobs at the nation's largest bank won only...