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Speaker of the House John Boehner sent President Obama a letter yesterday pressing Obama to seek Congressional approval for the intervention in Libya.

Candy Spelling widow of the late TV producer Aaron Spelling has sold the mansion to a 22-year-old British heiress Petra Ecclestone on Tuesday.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said on Tuesday that he is giving a second thought to mounting a presidential run, but refused to give a deadline by which he will make that decision.

House Speaker John Boehner has written the following letter to President Obama, asking him to explain the legality of his administration’s military activities in Libya.

U.S. House Speaker Republican John Boehner has asked President Barack Obama for a clear explanation of the legal standing supporting his administration’s continued military involvement in Libya.

In the first official visit of a sitting American president to the Caribbean commonwealth since John F. Kennedy in 1961, President Barack Obama landed in Puerto Rico Tuesday, saying he's committed to the success and self-determination of the U.S. island territory.

The House of Representatives granted Representative Anthony Weiner's formal request for a two-week leave of absence, as pressure mounted from the nation's highest office for the scandal plauged Democrat to resign, Monday.

We're certainly living in the new abnormal when Jeff Immelt, head of GE, is speaking like the President in a time of heightened political importance and awareness.

President Barack Obama is redoubling his efforts to curry favor with the financial industry, a bastion of support for his 2008 campaign whose members have criticized the president's rhetoric and support for increased regulation.

The United States Navy reportedly halted and turned back a North Korean vessel headed for Myanmar (the former Burma) a few weeks ago off the coast of China.

Hardly a few days after Syrian civilians started fleeing the nation to find a safe place in Turkey border, Syrian helicopter gunships fired machineguns to disperse pro-democracy protests, witnesses said, in the first reported use of air power to suppress unrest in Syria's increasingly bloody three-month-old uprising.

In an effort to compensate distraught families, the Canadian government has paid out over $1 million to Afghan civilians. Will the US follow suit?

Israeli police entered Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after Friday communal prayers-known in Arabic as Jumma -- to disperse a crowd of young Palestinian demonstrators.

Rep. Anthony Weiner is trying to get back to work and said he won't resign.

A staffer for Hilary Clinton and the White House both flatly rejected that the Secretary of State is seeking the presidency of the World Bank.

Hillary Clinton' aides have painstakingly refuted a media report that said she was eying the top job at the World Bank. If not running the World Bank, what will Hillary Clinton do after she steps down as Secretary of State? Would she be Obama's Vice-President? Or Defense Secretary? Or will she be gathering herself for yet another White House bid in 2016? Or indeed, a race as early as 2012?

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s White House campaign lay in shambles on Thursday as more than a dozen top officials and advisers deserted him en masse.

Hillary Clinton has denied reports that she is planning to quit her job next year to become president of the World Bank, a State Department spokesman said.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is seeking to become president of the World Bank, according to a report.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's top aides have resigned from his presidential campaign, according to reports.

The President wanted to be sure that he'd gotten his man before making the news of Osama bin Laden's death public.