Word that Joe Ricketts had considered bankrolling advertisements invoking the incendiary race-infused statements of President Obama’s former pastor drew wide denunciation.
Representative Barney Frank is getting married in July, and says he would welcome the Obamas, but doesn't want the fuss that comes with having the president's protectors around.
President Obama and four African leaders will introduce the group of companies, the Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security, on Friday at a forum on food security and agriculture.
The House is preparing to vote again on an unresolved legal controversy: whether the military may imprison terrorism suspects captured on United States soil without trial.
Howard Schmidt, who was instrumental in developing the administration’s legislative proposal on cybersecurity, will be succeeded by Michael Daniel, the White House said Thursday.
Florida officials are investigating more than 180,000 suspected noncitizens in an effort to tighten voter registration ahead of the presidential election.
After hearing final arguments in John Edwards’s federal corruption case, jurors were to begin deciding whether he is guilty of six counts of campaign fraud and conspiracy.
The Senate’s votes to approve Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell bring the seven-member Federal Reserve Board of Governors to full strength for the first time since 2006.
The Obama administration will give American businesses far greater license to make investments in Myanmar, responding to the country’s political and economic opening over the last year.
The Republican bill differs from the Senate’s version in protections for many battered women, including lesbians, American Indians and illegal immigrants, Democrats say.
