President Barack Obama started a new firestorm with the media on Monday, when he asked to "clear out the press so we can take some questions" during a White House speech before members of the National Governors Association.
The quality of our food and ability to fly on an airplane without fear are at risk, among other things, under the automatic spending cuts.
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky will offer two separate responses to President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Education, infrastructure, manufacturing, and renewable energy will be the four major themes of the president's annual address.
The federal background checks for firearm sales witnessed a 10 percent decline in January to 2,495,440 following a huge surge in demand at the end of 2012, even as Washington mulls new gun-control legislation following mass shooting in public places across the nation last year.
LeBron James and the Miami Heat were welcomed to the White House by President Obama for becoming 2012 NBA Champions.
Lady Gaga may be the featured performer at one of U.S. President Barack Obama’s inaugural balls Tuesday night.
Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough is expected to be named the next White House chief of staff, replacing Jack Lew after his nomination to be treasury secretary, sources familiar with the matter tell Reuters.
Blowing up planets one by one is a terribly inefficient way of subduing the universe.
The National Rifle Association released a statement Thursday criticizing the White House Gun Control Task Force, but has yet to offer comment on a shooting at Taft Union High School in California.
White House Honey Ale given by Obama sells for $1,200 to benefit Minneapolis hospital.
In the grimmest of coincidences, the latest school shooting happened on the day of a meeting at the White House on gun violence prevention.
The White House's easy-to-abuse "We the People" online petitioning system has turned a First Amendment right into a crowd-sourced circus.
President Barack Obama gets caught in Spiderman's web in latest White House photo of the day.
Obama is reacting to mass shooting at Danbury school as details still need to unfold about the number of fatalities.
The federal government has an outdated and chaotic system for organizing secret national security information, the Public Interest Declassification Board reports.
Bo, President Obama and the First Family's pet dog, inspects the White House's Christmas decorations in this humorous video.
When Rick Green, Des Moines Register editor, blogged that a conversation with President Barack Obama was off-the-record, the White House gave in.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Thursday that the nation was faced with a dire cyber threat from foreign actors targeting computer control systems that operate chemical, electricity and water plants and those that guide transportation.
Mitt Romney wasted no time late Monday in responding to backfire from controversial statements he made that were caught on tape. The GOP presidential candidate described his comments "off the cuff" and "not elegantly stated," but still defended the main message of his remarks.
Myanmar opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in the United States on Monday. Her 17-day stateside schedule includes meetings with Hillary Clinton and several U.S. politicians, as well as awards ceremonies and speaking arrangements from New York to Indiana to California.
Today marks the one year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and citizens have come together once again, to be heard and to protest against the so-called one percent
