When Brian Ballard signed the lease last year for an office on the second floor of the Homer Building, a downtown Washington edifice that’s home to a number of lobbying firms, he promised himself he would stay in the space for five years. [...]

Photo Storm damage in Nuku’alofa, Tonga’s capital, on Tuesday. Tropical Cyclone Gita was the strongest storm to hit the Pacific island nation in decades. Credit John [...]

And when you get home, Bull Connor will help you wash your truck with a hose. Dodge Trucks ran what it hoped would be a very inspiring ad during the National Traumatic Brain Injury Festival yesterday, featuring a brief excerpt from King’s [...]

Kim Dong-yub, a defense analyst at the Seoul-based Institute for Far Eastern Studies, said North Korea appeared to have built the Hwasong-15 by upgrading the second stage of the Hwasong-14, which carries the missile through space after [...]

Several months ago, Sen. Lamar Alexander phoned Education Secretary Betsy DeVos with a message: Back off. Alexander, the Republican chairman of the Senate HELP Committee, was furious that a top DeVos aide was circumventing a new law aimed [...]

That was a departure from the party’s carefully scripted transfers of power in recent decades and a possible signal that Mr. Xi intends to dominate Chinese politics beyond this next five-year term. Mr. Xi may also want more time to [...]

Chief of staff John Kelly told a rapt and silent White House briefing room about military soldiers having their bodies wrapped by heartbroken friends, double-packed in ice and flown across the Atlantic to meet grief-stricken families. He recalled [...]