BARACK OBAMA

Photos of the Colombian escort caught up in a scandal that has caused three Secret Service agents to lose their jobs hit the Web Thursday. According to the New York Daily News, the woman, a 24-year-old single mother is known as Dania.

Two of the Secret Service agents being ousted over a prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, were identified Thursday.

The American Petroleum Institute, the leading oil industry trade group, renewed its call Thursday for President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, now that a route change has been proposed.

The secret service agents currently embroiled in a Colombian prostitution scandal apparently did some advance planning before arriving. The presidential body guard booked a party space at the Hotel Caribe before heading out to hit up a few Colombian nightclubs, hotel sources told ABC News.

The Secret Service concluded Thursday that conservative rocker Ted Nugent wasn't threatening President Barack Obama when he said at the NRA convention he would either be dead or in jail if Obama wins re-election.

It is interesting now to see Republicans' newfound support of judicial review after the passage of health reform under a Democratic president, said U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Organizers announce that Microsoft will be the official innovation provider, working on ways to use Xbox and other technology at the GOP event.

Video of Ted Nugent saying he will either be dead or in jail if Obama gets re-elected has been taken down from the NRA's YouTube account as Nugent is set to meet with the Secret Service over his comments.

Top military officials told Congress that they are readying contingency plans for Syria but remain committed to pursuing diplomatic solutions over a military intervention.

The White House announced Thursday that President Barack Obama will award Patricia Pat Summitt the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday his proposal for a Republican version of the Democrats' DREAM Act for some immigrants would avoid criticism from conservatives opposed to amnesty.

The U.S. Secret Service has already let go three of the 11 agents caught up in a prostitution scandal that allegedly took place in Cartagena, Colombia, and the U.S. military continues its investigation into the matter. And while prostitution is legal in Colombia, American military personnel accused of picking up prostitutes ahead of President Obama's visit to Colombia may face prosecution under U.S. military law.

In a move that evokes the grueling partisan battles of last summer as the United States teetered on the brink of default, the White House is warning Republicans of a government shutdown if they reject the debt-reduction deal they made with Democrats.

The Secret Service is set to meet with rocker and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent today to determine whether Nugent intended to threaten President Obama when he said he would be either dead or in jail if Obama gets re-elected.

Bethel Bakery wanted to welcome Republican presidential hopeful to its Pennsylvania town with some locally-made cookies -- but that resulted in an embarassment for Romney, who said they didn't look homemade at all.

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.

Republicans in the House of Representatives on Wednesday advanced a proposal to repeal a major section of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial oversight law as part of a broader deficit reduction effort, a move Democrats derided as a misguided budget gimmick.

Three of the 11 Secret Service employees being investigated for allegations of sexual misconduct in Colombia are leaving, the agency said Wednesday evening.

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.

The proportion of Americans contributing to the nation's public presidential election campaign fund has decreased considerably since the programs hey-day in the 1970s.

Japan slashed its oil purchases from Iran in April, cutting imports from the Islamic Republic by nearly 80 percent.