Muñoz, who spent years as an immigration reform advocate before joining the Obama administration, will play a prominent role in the White House's policy-making process.
Mitt Romney is poised for a big win at the New Hampshire 2012 primary. But if he takes the Republican nomination from Ron Paul, Paul's supporters won't be toeing the party line. Numerous voters and supporters are planning on writing in Paul's name on the ballot in November if he fails to secure the GOP nomination.
Jacob Lew, a former Citigroup executive, reportedly received a $900,000 bonus from the company after it took $45 billion in taxpayer bailout funds in 2008.
If the current Republican primary has taught us anything, having rich supporters with high incomes has become the difference between first and fifth place. Thank the Supreme Court. Its controversial Citizens United decision has prolonged the shelf life of candidates that once would have been long dead. Ask Newt Gingrich.
Dictator buddies President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela met to discuss serious matters on Monday, but they lightened up the conversation with jokes about having a “big atomic bomb” at their disposal.
Jodi Kantor's upcoming biography The Obamas has been criticized for not being entirely accurate by some, but one thing is certain about the book: It's certainly generating its share of headlines.
In a statement from the White House State Dining Room, President Obama praised Daley's contributions to his administration during his short time of service.
White House Chief of Staff William Daley is resigning effective at the end of this month, to be replaced by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Jacob Lew.
Snoop Dogg wants to convince the White House to legalize pot, and he's got a special strategy all worked out.
She has also been linked to Venezuela's own spy agency, the Bolivarian Intelligence Service.
Delonte West, a Dallas Mavericks player, will be the only one of his team to stay back when they make their highly-anticipated visit to the White House, to meet President Barack Obama. In his own words, West has been banned from going to the White House owing to a past that has criminal records.
Republican presidential candidates stepped up their attacks on rival Mitt Romney in a televised debate on Sunday morning -- a mere two days before primary-election voters in New Hampshire head to the polls -- and the front-runner mostly weathered the attacks.
Most of the Republican presidential candidates laid out their credentials as social conservatives in a debate on Saturday as the 2012 campaign prepares to move from New Hampshire to South Carolina. With another debate to be hosted by NBC's Meet the Press, they can do it all over again on Sunday.
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden is loading up on stars.
U.S. President Barack Obama kicked off an effort to encourage businesses to keep jobs at home instead of outsourcing them overseas, as he rolled out a new election-year theme on Saturday aimed at courting middle-class voters.
Congressional Republicans Friday asked the Justice Department to weigh in on the controversial recess appointments President Barack Obama made to install appointees to politically sensitive jobs overseeing consumer lending and the labor force.
Western powers this week readied a contingency plan to tap a record volume from emergency stockpiles to replace nearly all the Gulf oil that would be lost if Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz, industry sources and diplomats told Reuters.
U.S. Senator Marc Rubio from Florida sent a scathing letter urging President Obama to tackle the debt crisis and resist raising the debt ceiling. It's a tragic reality, he writes. But, on your watch, more and more people have come to believe that America is becoming a deadbeat nation inevitably heading toward a European-style debt crisis.
The FBI's outdated definition of rape excluded from federal crime reports cases involving a male victim, oral and anal penetration, and non-forcible sexual assault.
The increasingly ugly divorce between White House party crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi continues to grab headlines, despite audience fatigue with the publicity-seeking reality TV personalities.
Investigators are looking into whether or not the White House gave too much information to Hollywood director Katheryn Bigelow and her team working on a movie about the Osama bin Laden raid.
The U.S. Department of Defense and CIA are investigating claims that the Obama administration gave Oscar Award winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow more than a peek at classified information about the killing of Osama bin Laden.
