Loretta Lynch could become the first African-American female to serve as the top U.S. law-enforcement official.
An intruder is in custody after scaling the White House fence, the seventh such incident this year.
The Obama administration is conducting airstrikes and dropping supplies to help rescue Kobani from the Islamic State group.
It's Ron Klain's first day as the U.S. "Ebola czar." What can the 53-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer actually do to coordinate a response?
A report has claimed that investigators had more details about the Secret Service prostitute scandal, but did not want them to be revealed.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci stressed that the virus isn't easily spread.
Pierson took much of the flak over recent incidents that suggest the Secret Service failed at its job of protecting President Obama.
Cisco CEO John Chambers thinks so. On Wednesday he said 80 percent of tech companies that have gone public in 2014 have no earnings.
A man jumped the fence of the White House and made it through one of the main entrances of the building, the U.S. Secret Service said.
Kiev has reportedly been asking for advanced military technology from the U.S., which the Obama administration has so far refused to provide.
Despite Credit Suisse pleading guilty to felony charges, Obama wants to waive rules so it can keep running pension funds.
Barak Barfi, a spokesperson for the slain journalist's family, also accused the U.S government of making a "number of inaccurate statements."
The attacks reportedly targeted a major Sunni tribe called the Al-Jabour, which has sided with Iraqi forces against Islamic State.
Abu Hajar al-Sufi, believed to be a member of Baghdadi’s inner circle, is among those believed to have been killed in airstrikes in Mosul.
New York's governor is one of four potential 2016 White House contenders being investigated by prosecutors.
"Jim was taken from us in an action of violence that shocks the conscience of the entire world," President Obama said of James Foley's beheading.
The video ends with ISIS threatening to kill another man — believed to be U.S. journalist Steven Joel Sotloff.
The Obama administration is close to approving a plan that would allow the Pentagon to sell weapons directly to Kurdish forces.
Criticized for trying to juke the job stats, the White House delays its proposal to inflate the government's manufacturing job figures.
With Denver's crime rate dropping, Chris Christie criticizes legal weed. Rand Paul, his probable 2016 GOP rival, promotes pot-policy reform.
China has issued a complaint against the White House's statement that supports the Tiananmen Square massacre protesters from 1989.
The chief spokesman will be replaced by Josh Earnest, a special assistant to the president.