WHITE HOUSE

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.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on Congress to pass a series of measures that would help limit what he called speculation that's driving up the price of oil and gasoline.

President Barack Obama will announce a plan on Tuesday to increase oversight and crack down on oil market manipulation, the White House said.

Senate Republicans on Monday afternoon blocked President Barack Obama's Buffett Rule legislation, which would have put a 30-percent minimum tax on millionaires.

A prominent Democratic donor has vowed to spend $100,000 on a campaign designed to pressure President Barack Obama into signing an executive order that would protect LGBT workers from workplace discrimination at the hands of federal contractors.

The meeting ended on a frosty note Sunday, with the leaders of Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua all vowing to boycott next year's meeting if Cuba remains banned.

Sarah Palin took a swipe at her Fox News boss Richard Ailes after he said the former vice presidential candidate had no chance to be President.

Discussions of Iran's nuclear program between the Islamic Republic on the one side and the so-called P-5 Plus 1 group -- Britain, China, France, Russia, and the U.S., plus Germany -- on the other side appear to have gone reasonably well in Istanbul on Saturday.

Hours after President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden published their 2011 tax returns, Mitt Romney announced he has requested an extension for his own filing.

One Direction, Simon Cowell's British boy band, is heating up. The band's popularity is skyrocketing as the boys gain more and more fans worldwide. But with fame often comes troubles and One Direction has already had a few, one of them involving fellow boy band The Wanted.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle paid an effective tax rate of about 20.5 percent in 2011, but would like to be paying more in order to make the U.S. tax system more fair.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden released their 2011 tax returns, a personal turn in the debate about tax policy.