NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will keep control of the biggest U.S. school system, state Senate Democratic leaders said on Friday, adding that the mayor accepted their plans to give parents more say. The state law letting the city's mayor directly run the schools expired last month while the state Senate was gridlocked in ...

President Barack Obama is likening overhaul of the nation's health care system to one of the government's greatest triumphs: the NASA program that landed astronauts on the moon 40 years ago. If Obama's initiative is to be anywhere near as successful, it will ...

Slow down, Senate Democrats told President Barack Obama on Thursday, dashing hopes of rushing his sweeping health care overhaul to a summertime vote and adding to the troubles the plan could face as the year wears on. "That's OK," the president replied gamely. "Just keep working." No one is suggesting that delay equals defeat. In fact, the Senate's ...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says House Democrats are struggling to reach consensus on overhauling health care, a divide that could delay House approval of a plan beyond lawmakers' scheduled vacation in August. House leaders have said they wanted to pass a plan before they leave ...