WHITE HOUSE

Michelle Obama's gown upstaged the visiting Merkel's.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be honored on Tuesday at the White House with America's highest civilian award.

White House chief economist Austan Goolsbee is stepping down from his post and returning to teaching later this year, he said Monday; a setback for President Barack Obama as he tries to life the economy, Reuters reported.

Austan Goolsbee, the White House chief economist said on Monday that he would resign from his post and go back to teaching later this year.

British citizens in Yemen must leave the country on commercial fights as soon as possible to avoid being stuck up amid escalating violence in the Gulf state, Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned, a report in The Telegraph stated on Saturday.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has set a late summer timetable for his decision on whether he'll try again for the White House.

None of the official U.S. government official's email account has been hacked, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Thursday.

The FBI is investigating Google's claims that Chinese hackers were behind the recent hacking of several Gmail accounts.

The slowdown has begun. The economy has started to sputter and unemployment claims have tipped 400,000 for the last seven weeks. Manufacturing is cooling, the housing market is struggling and consumers are keeping a close eye on spending, meaning the U.S. economy might be on a slower path to full health than expected.

A new report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy calls for a broad rethinking of the war on drugs

In a shocking announcement, Google said Chinese hackers have hacked into hundreds of Gmail accounts of senior US and South Korean government officials, military personnel, and Chinese political activists and journalists through a carefully targeted and sustained phishing scam.

A cyber attack that originated from the Chinese city of Jinan that selectively targeted key government officials in the U.S. and its allies has focused uneasy limelight on China, even as the western governments are tinkering with their military rule books to call cyber attacks 'acts of war'.

Chinese hackers broke into the personal Gmail accounts of senior officials and military personnel of the U.S. government and it allies and stole sensitive data, setting the stage for an era of heightened cyber tension between the world's top military powers. The latest hack attack, which might bring Google and the Chinese administration into a fresh fist fight, was precisely planned and executed, raising doubts if the Chinese state had authorized it.

President Barack Obama's campaign on Wednesday set a goal of raising $60 million in June to benefit Obama's re-election and the Democratic National Committee, a source involved in the campaign said, Reuters reported.

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee may have declined a 2012 White House bid, but he hasn't completely ruled out being the running mate to the GOP nominee.

President Obama and The White House have agreed to let a single news photographer capture candid pictures during presidential speeches.

President Obama will meet with House Republicans at the White House today in an effort to make progress on raising the nation's debt limit.

While the military has begun paying attention and devoting more resources to the problem, military suicide it is still stigmatized.

Army general Martin Dempsey, a warrior-scholar who commanded troops in the Iraq war, was nominated as the top U.S. military officer by President Barack Obama on Monday.

The primary elections in Iowa are more than eight months away, but Ron Paul is in the state on his 2012 campaign trail, with a meet-and-greet scheduled for Tuesday marking the fourth time in the last month he visits.

President Obama laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery and gave a speech praising the sacrifices of American soldiers this morning.