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The suspect, who has been arrested for last Friday night's White House shooting,is suspected to be linked to Occupy Rally.

The vicious remark by a Republican student leader at the University of Texas, on Twitter, was met with scathing criticism on Wednesday. Hours after the police arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man for firing a rifle at the White House, Lauren Pierce tweeted that the idea of assassinating the U.S. President was tempting.

Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, the 21-year-old suspect in Friday's gunfire near White House was obsessed with American President Barak Obama, officials said.

Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, a 21-year-old man from Idaho, was arrested Wednesday after he was suspected for firing a shot from a semiautomatic rifle at the White House on Friday evening.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said it may take similar skills to navigate Washington politics as it does to make advances in physics research, a field in which he won a Nobel Prize in 1997.

The Secret Service said Wednesday that a bullet had been found that struck a White House window from a shot authorities believe was fired five days ago, and they continue to seek a man wanted in connection with the incident. The bullet was stopped by ballistic glass.

Even before the Washington Police could track down Oscar Ramiro Ortega, the suspect in last week's firing in Northwest Washington, they are presented with one more security-related case. And this time the case is extremely high profile as it involves the White House.

TransCanada agreed on Monday to reroute its Keystone XL oil pipeline around the Nebraska Sandhills in response to environmental concerns. The concession, which came on the heels of President Obama's decision to order a State Department re-review of the pipeline project, was a strategic move that divided the coalition of locals and environmentalists opposed the pipeline.

What to know about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments on the Affordable Care Act.

The Chinese state media has accused U.S. President Barack Obama of using Beijing to deflect attention from his country's economic woes. The accusation, made by the Xinhua news agency, comes after Obama hit out at Chinese currency policy.

Under normal circumstances, we could feel sorry for Herman Cain, who has never before held political office. If he were still just a businessman, it would all be horribly unfair. But Cain is more than that now, for the moment at least. He became a legitimate contender for the highest office -- President of the United States. With that comes the terrible trail, the one candidates must must be able to navigate like carefully stepping through a mine field with 1,000 pounds on their back if they hop...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas gave no indication Monday that they will heed their critics' calls and recuse themselves from the Affordable Care Act case.

The Obama Administration will announce the plan, part of its 'We Can't Wait' initiative, on Monday.

A former Guantanamo chief prosecutor and an outspoken critic of military commissions, Col. Morris Davis, is condemning President Barack Obama's national security policy, saying his presidency seems to him like a third Bush term.

Canada will try to sell more of its energy products to Asia after Washington delayed a decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline project, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.

The congressional super committee is at a difficult point in negotiations on deficit reduction, but lawmakers said on Sunday they had not given up on reaching an agreement by this month's deadline.

Saturday Night Live poked fun at the GOP presidential hopefuls last weekend in the show's opening sketch, with the issues facing Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Herman Cain at the center of the skit.

Asia-Pacific leaders will call on countries on Sunday to do what they can to bolster economic growth, rallying around the common threat from Europe's debt crisis despite divisions over trade and currency policies.

Do you know how many rooms are in the White House? Not much is known about the Washington D.C. mansion that has housed some of the most glorious leaders this world has ever seen. Here are 15 fun facts about the White House that you might not have known before today.

Newt Gingrich is said to have bought $1 million worth of jewelry to buy off his hesitant wife who did not want him to run for president, writes the Daily Mail. The revelations come in a new e-book, Election 2012: The Battle Begins, written by Real Clear Politics' Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon. No sources are named.

Romney has no real ideology or political philosophy behind him (hence, the endless flip-flops on various topics). Many of the Republican Party's right-wing do not like nor trust him.