WHITE HOUSE

Two senior House Republicans expressed confidence in the head of the U.S. Secret Service Sunday despite the Colombia prostitution scandal while a Senate committee chairman planned hearings into the matter.

The United States believes a Chinese firm sold North Korea components for a missile transporter showcased in a recent military parade and will press Beijing to tighten enforcement of a U.N. ban on such military sales, a U.S. official said on Saturday.

Francois Hollande is France's Socialist candidate for the 2012 French presidential campaign.

President Obama is urging Congress to prevent a planned interest rate increase on federal student loans, weighing in on the latest budget showdown.

Last week, Mitt Romney got in trouble for talking about riding horses. This week, President Barack Obama is in trouble because he used to eat dog meat.

The American Petroleum Institute, the leading oil industry trade group, renewed its call Thursday for President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, now that a route change has been proposed.

The Secret Service concluded Thursday that conservative rocker Ted Nugent wasn't threatening President Barack Obama when he said at the NRA convention he would either be dead or in jail if Obama wins re-election.

The White House announced Thursday that President Barack Obama will award Patricia Pat Summitt the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

With Rick Santorum abandoning his GOP bid on April 10, Mitt Romney has become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Recent polls show that Romney and President Obama are neck in neck in the eyes of the nation. But does Romney have a secret weapon? It's becoming more apparent that Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney is becoming an effective political weapon.

In an effort to expand its campaign of covert drone strikes in Yemen, the Central Intelligence Agency has asked for the authority to target suspected terrorists without needing to establish their identity first.

In a move that evokes the grueling partisan battles of last summer as the United States teetered on the brink of default, the White House is warning Republicans of a government shutdown if they reject the debt-reduction deal they made with Democrats.

A University of Alabama football player suffered a concussion during a late-night altercation.

President Barack Obama will renominate Republican Kristine Svinicki to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, defying opposition from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a White House official told Reuters on Thursday.

The House, on Wednesday, passed a bill ordering the issuance of a permit for the construction of the Keystone XL Pipleline from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast.

Senator Daniel Akaka's retirement jeopardizes the fight to grant Native Hawaiians federal recognition

Election 2012? Democrats are already cheering for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Charles Colson's condition has worsened after undergoing brain surgery two weeks ago. Jim Liske, chief executive officer of Prison Fellowship Ministries, issued a statement on Wednesday noting that Colson will soon be home with the Lord. News of Colson's deteriorating health came after signs of improvement.

A U.S. Army spokesman has said that an investigator is in Colombia investigating the troops' involvement in a scandal surrounding the Secret Service and prostitutes from the Pley Club prior to President Barack Obama's visit last week.

Republicans in the U.S. Senate are filing a friend-of-the-court brief in a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of U.S. President Barack Obama's controversial recess appointments.

Tucked in the low-rent district of Cartagena, Colombia, lies the Pley Club. A tacky neon sign sits atop a windowless, dingy building, inviting gentlemen into the club, which reportedly doubles as a brothel. Here at the Pley Club, President Obama's secret service agents picked up between 20 and 21 Colombian prostitutes. The event would lead to a heated scandal that has appalled both Secret Service heads as well as the President in Chief himself.

Concerning the rhetoric coming from the White House recently, much of the punditry has found itself shocked and alarmed.