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Actor Martin Sheen has played a president on The West Wing and now he's standing up for one in a new video by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that accuses Republicans of trying to end Medicare and siding against President Obama because they want him to fail.

Every once in a while, the media gets a taste of off-the-cuff interactions between world leaders because a microphone is left on.

The United States and Turkey are formulating a plan to send non-lethal aid to Syria's embattled dissidents, a White House deputy national security adviser told reporters in Seoul on Sunday.

The American Petroleum Institute, the country's largest oil industry backed trade group, slammed the U.S. Senate as it readies to vote to eliminate tax breaks for oil companies.

With political pressures mounting, talk about the release of the strategic oil reserves has come back. Will the President decide to release the country's reserves in a last gasp effort to stem the gas price spike? And if he does, what kind of impact will it have on prices?

The Affordable Care Act arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this week will pit two of Washington's seasoned legal minds against each other in a bout akin to Ali vs. Frazier for the legal set. Here's a look at the lawyers who will lead the historic arguments on the constitutionality of the health care measure.

Scott Kluth has a love-hate relationship with his new Fisker Karma luxury electric sedan.

Here is a breakdown of the three days of oral arguments before the Supreme Court on the Affordable Care Act.

While the full bill won't be in effect until 2014, the health care overhaul has already benefited millions of Americans, according to the Obama administration.

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote Monday on whether or not to do away with tax breaks for the largest oil and natural gas companies.

Mitt Romney will have a massive problem after he receives headship of the Republican Party: Defeating President Barack Obama.

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday in favor of sending a bill to President Barack Obama which will ban insider trading by Congress members.

The Senate Thursday voted overwhelmingly to send President Barack Obama legislation imposing new curbs on insider trading by members of Congress, even though the measure was weaker than a version it passed in February.

Standing in front of a row of pipes, President Barack Obama pledged on Thursday to accelerate approval for part of the Keystone XL pipeline, seeking to deflect criticism that his rejection of the full project helped create a climate for high gasoline prices.

Walt Osterman is the author of Not Home Yet: A Tale Concerning Israel's Rebirth. He served in Vietnam and is a Bronze Star recipient. He lives in Wyoming.

President Barack Obama on Thursday will expedite the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline as part of a tour of the nation's energy hubs.

Putin, now Russia's president-elect, has said he would boycott the Group of Eight summit at Camp David and the NATO conference in Chicago this spring if U.S. missile defense plans weren't scrapped.

North Korea has warned it won't tolerate any criticism on its planned satellite launch. North Korea has threatened the critics of its nuclear weapons program that any denigration would be considered a declaration of war, New York Times reported.

Despite online assertions of conspiracy theorists, the president's National Defense Resource Preparedness Act has already been the law in one form or another for more than 60 years.

Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo are set to be nominated to lead the World Bank, sources with knowledge of emerging market efforts to find candidates said on Tuesday.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has comfortable win over Rick Santorum in Illinois.