WHITE HOUSE

President Barack Obama, following through on a promise to beef up enforcement of trade agreements, on Tuesday will sign an executive order creating a new government team to make sure China and others play by the rules, the White House said.

Israel may be planning to launch an attack on Iran, without warning its most important ally the U.S., a U.S. intelligence official familiar with the bilateral discussions between the two nations told the Associated Press.

As fashion connoisseurs and red carpet followers turned their attention to the 84th Oscar Academy Awards, the First Lady of the U.S. made a glamorous entry at the White House dressed in a dazzling sequined cream gown.

A Canadian company's decision Monday to proceed with part of a U.S. pipeline might end up muffling one of the Republicans' loudest arguments in this election year: that President Barack Obama has pursued failed energy policies.

White House officials Monday welcomed TransCanada's plans to reapply for the Keystone XL pipeline and showed their support for the company's aims to build the southern portion of the controversial pipeline as a standalone project.

The United States has put too much focus on going to college and it has hurt the economy.

Iran state media is denying that Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been sentenced to death. Citing an anonymous source, Press TV said a local court is still investigating the case.

The Obama administration is preparing to bolster Yemen's abilities to take on the country's increasingly bold and assertive Al Qaeda franchise, the New York Times reported.

A huge majority of Americans said they supported lower tax rates for the wealthy and corporations in a new poll from The Hill. However, it is unclear if those respondents were aware of the current tax rates for those individuals and entities.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who had a finger-pointing confrontation with President Barack Obama last month, on Sunday endorsed Mitt Romney for president.

With gasoline prices already approaching a distinctly unseasonal $4 a gallon in a presidential-election year, the United States is considering tapping its Strategic Petroleum Reserve as one way to control the prices of crude oil and its derivatives. Herewith is a look at past SPR loans and sales.

White House hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battled over who was the most conservative Republican on Saturday -- while knocking President Barack Obama on account of accelerating gasoline prices -- as the high-octane race in Michigan moves toward a still-uncertain finish.

A report by the U.N. nuclear agency Friday revealed that Iran has sharply improved its controversial uranium enrichment drive, increasing Israel's fear that the Islamic Republic is pushing ahead with the atomic bomb plans.

Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren both published op-eds in the Boston Globe Friday, contrasting each other's views on the Obama administration's federal mandate regarding health care coverage for contraception and a bill designed to circumvent it.

On Thursday night, comedian Bill Maher publicly announced his intention to donate $1 million to the super PAC supporting the reelection of President Barack Obama.

The U.S. government will spend an additional $51 million this year to ensure that Asian carp don't spread to the Great Lakes.

The White House was transformed into an intimate blues club on Tuesday night when a concert featuring some of the greatest living blues legends of past, present and future gathered for a concert. Stars such as Mick Jagger, B.B. King, Jeff Beck and more were jammed in the East Room of the White House on a night dubbed In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues.

The Obama administration is weighing the circumstances that could warrant tapping the nation's strategic oil reserve, aware that supply disruptions from Iran could harm the global economy, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Friday.

Super PACs are new in this election season, but the term is popping up everywhere in politics. That's because these deep-pocketed fan-clubs have become a major force the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Religious organizations, particularly the Catholic Church, argue universal healthcare access is a fundamental human right.

President Barack Obama apologized on Thursday for the burning of copies of the Koran on a U.S. base in Afghanistan as the White House sought to quell spiraling furor among Afghans while also staving off Republican criticism at home.