BARACK OBAMA

Volkswagen has pressed U.S. regulators to change a proposal to double auto fuel efficiency, arguing the plan puts it at a competitive disadvantage and unfairly de-emphasizes clean diesel engines.

The White House issued a statement on Thursday after Benetton's 'Unhate' ad campaign featured a digitally altered picture of Obama kissing two of his perceived enemies.

An advertising campaign that depicts President Barack Obama kissing two male world leaders on the mouth drew a critical response from the White House on Thursday.

The suspect, who has been arrested for last Friday night's White House shooting,is suspected to be linked to Occupy Rally.

Occupy Las Vegas takes pride in being the Occupy Movement's most friendly gathering - We don't want to chase tourists away.

As he wraps up his Asia-Pacific tour, President Barack Obama will showcase a $21.7 billion deal Boeing has struck with Indonesia's largest domestic airline, Lion Air, the White House said.

President Barack Obama scolded tobacco companies for trying to block health warning labels on cigarettes, a product the world leader himself only recently quit using.

A bipartisan and bicameral group of 45 Senators and 102 Representatives have banded together to encourage the budget deficit super committee to go big.

With Herman Cain's fall, Newt Gingrich is up to bat as the latest conservative alternative to Mitt Romney. Where does the former speaker of the House stand on the issues?

President Barack Obama said Thursday the U.S. military will expand its role in the Asia-Pacific region despite budget cuts, declaring America was here to stay as a Pacific power which would help shape the region's future.

Italian clothing firm, Benetton, has withdrawn its latest ad campaign featuring an image of Pope Benedict XVI kissing an eminent Egyptian Imam on the lips, due to the Vatican's hot protests.

Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, a 21-year-old man from Idaho, was arrested Wednesday after he was suspected for firing a shot from a semiautomatic rifle at the White House on Friday evening.

The new ad campaign is part of Benetton's Unhate Foundation.

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, 47 percent of Americans said they support repealing the law, versus 42 percent who favor upholding it.

No clear cut deal appears on the horizon, as the budget deficit super committee's Nov. 23 deadline draws near. The group of 12 lawmakers has, by some accounts, resorted to the old accounting tricks used to paint deceptively rosy pictures in past debates.

Given the increasing presence of women in high levels of politics around the world, I am wondering what the “standard protocol” for such greetings should be?

The Secret Service said Wednesday that a bullet had been found that struck a White House window from a shot authorities believe was fired five days ago, and they continue to seek a man wanted in connection with the incident. The bullet was stopped by ballistic glass.

Even before the Washington Police could track down Oscar Ramiro Ortega, the suspect in last week's firing in Northwest Washington, they are presented with one more security-related case. And this time the case is extremely high profile as it involves the White House.

President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he was deeply concerned about the continued euro zone crisis, blaming it on a lack of political will, and that market turmoil would continue until Europe has a concrete plan to deal with its debt woes.

Newt Gingrich is the latest of the anti-Romneys: the constantly churning field of candidates who, for a few days or weeks, are trumpeted as the definitive conservative challenger to Mitt Romney before falling back into the abyss. But can he maintain his lead where others didn't?

The European Central Bank stepped in to stem an accelerating selloff of euro zone government bonds on Wednesday, traders said, after the United States called for more decisive action to halt the spreading sovereign debt crisis.