Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, returned to the White House Thursday for the unveiling of their portraits.
A North Carolina jury has finally reached a verdict in the John Edwards trial.
The former Louisiana governor, who championed a reform to the nation's campaign finance system, plans to form a nonprofit to tackle those issues.
President 44 will be hosting President 43 in a rare reunion at the White House Thursday for the unveiling of George W. Bush and Former First Lady Laura Bush's portraits.
About 6 million Poles died during World War II, more than half of them Jews.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has opened a new front in his critique of President Obama's foreign policy, assailing the president's lack of leadership on Syria and calling for the United States to arm the Syrian opposition.
Time to stop dropping the presumptive and the likely qualifiers: It is all but certain that after Texans finish voting in Tuesday's Republican presidential primary, Mitt Romney will have secured the 1,144 delegates he needs to win the nomination.
First Lady Michelle Obama is a huge Beyonce fan, as she said I love her to death after being asked on Good Morning America about the Bey concert she saw over the weekend.
Backed by a muscular interpretation of executive power, the Obama administration has made armed drones the centerpiece of its counter-terror arsenal, stepping up strikes in Pakistan and expanding the campaign into Yemen and Somalia.
To commemorate the day when America remembers those who gave their lives while serving in the U.S. armed forces, President Barack Obama will attend a Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia to honor the anonymously fallen.
Former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, whose name has surfaced as a potential successor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, said Sunday he does not want the job and has not been asked by Democratic President Barack Obama.
Walter Cronkite is best known for his role on CBS's Evening News. Often cited as the most trusted man in America, Cronkite reported on some of the world's most pressing news topics during the 1960s and 1970s. But as most American's have an untarnished image of the legendary reporter, a posthumous biography on Cronkite attempts to share details that just might shed a different light on his legacy.
The U.S. Treasury declined Friday to name China as a currency manipulator, a move that is likely to intensify an already hot debate in the U.S. presidential campaigning.
Pressing his party's advantage in anticipation of a year-end budget battle, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Democrats in the Senate would preserve an impending $55 billion reduction in military spending if Republicans refuse to budge on new revenue.
The number of Americans lining up for new jobless benefits fell slightly last week to 370,000, but remained above levels posted earlier this year, the Labor Department said Thursday. While matching economists' forecasts, the figure suggests improvement in the labor market is stalling.
The national debate on the Keystone XL pipeline enters the courtroom, as Nebraska landowners sue their state over how the pipeline project could be approved.
Obama told the graduating class of 2012 that a different world includes less deployments, stronger alliances and a greater role in global affairs where the United States of America is more respected and safer than they ever were before -- implying a stark contrast between the attitudes of George W. Bush's administration.
The Obama administration is increasingly under fire this month for its policy on the nation's coal sector.
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The U.S. sale of advanced F-16s fighter jets to Taiwan is looking more likely than ever of being formalized into law, after being approved by the U.S. House of Representatives.
The measure grants President Barack Obama the power to impose sanctions against any country or company that enters into a joint venture or offers technology to assist Iran's uranium or oil industries.
After its successful IPO on Friday, Facebook was looking forward to its second day of trading, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg won't be too pleased to learn that his company took a big tumble on the stock exchange on Monday. Facebook shares (listed as FB on the Nasdaq) fell from $38.27 to $34.03 apiece, a drop-off of about 11 percent.
