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The Senate Wednesday approved a bill to put new rules in place for intelligence agency eavesdropping on suspected terrorists.
The Senate approved and sent to the White House a bill overhauling controversial rules on secret government eavesdropping Wednesday
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Winning an NCAA title comes with a bonus: meeting the president.
A federal judge ruled Monday that a White House office that has records about millions of possibly missing e-mails does not have to make them public
The White House Office of Administration is not required to turn over records about a trove of possibly missing e-mails, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Democrats will try again Thursday to pass a bill extending unemployment benefits after it fell three votes short of a needed two-thirds majority on Wednesday.
The House on Wednesday began debate on a housing package that would let the government back loans for homeowners at risk of foreclosure - a move many Republicans have opposed and which the White House has threatened to veto.
The House on Wednesday will begin debate on a housing package that would let the government back loans for homeowners at risk of foreclosure - a move many Republicans have opposed and which the White House has threatened to veto.
The White House said Wednesday that President Bush has paid a price for the "Mission Accomplished" banner that was flown in triumph five years ago but later became a symbol of U.S. misjudgments and mistakes in the long and costly war in Iraq
Short-term exposure to smog, or ozone, is clearly linked to premature deaths that should be taken into account when measuring the health benefits of reducing air pollution
The Senate Wednesday approved a bill to put new rules in place for intelligence agency eavesdropping on suspected terrorists.
The Senate approved and sent to the White House a bill overhauling controversial rules on secret government eavesdropping Wednesday
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Winning an NCAA title comes with a bonus: meeting the president.
A federal judge ruled Monday that a White House office that has records about millions of possibly missing e-mails does not have to make them public
The White House Office of Administration is not required to turn over records about a trove of possibly missing e-mails, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Democrats will try again Thursday to pass a bill extending unemployment benefits after it fell three votes short of a needed two-thirds majority on Wednesday.
The House on Wednesday began debate on a housing package that would let the government back loans for homeowners at risk of foreclosure - a move many Republicans have opposed and which the White House has threatened to veto.
The House on Wednesday will begin debate on a housing package that would let the government back loans for homeowners at risk of foreclosure - a move many Republicans have opposed and which the White House has threatened to veto.
The White House said Wednesday that President Bush has paid a price for the "Mission Accomplished" banner that was flown in triumph five years ago but later became a symbol of U.S. misjudgments and mistakes in the long and costly war in Iraq
Short-term exposure to smog, or ozone, is clearly linked to premature deaths that should be taken into account when measuring the health benefits of reducing air pollution
Pope Benedict XVI moved Wednesday from a jubilant White House visit where he defended religion in the public square to a contemplative prayer service at a national Roman Catholic shrine
Months of planning have led to this moment -- Wednesday's official arrival ceremony for Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to the United States in his three years as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
President and Mrs. George W. Bush reported taxable income of $719, 274 for the tax year 2007 and paid $221,635 in federal income taxes, the White House said Friday.
The House Judiciary Committee on Monday filed a lawsuit against White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers aimed at forcing them to provide information about the firings of nine U.S. attorneys.
A senior White House official has resigned after he admitted copying large sections of an essay he wrote for a newspaper in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the White House confirmed Friday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday requested that a federal grand jury be appointed to investigate whether a top White House official and former official should be prosecuted for contempt of Congress.
House Democrats have defied the White House in a battle between civil liberties and national security. And GOP candidates are looking forward to making it an election issue
The House voted Thursday to hold White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House lawyer Harriet Miers in contempt in its probe of the 2006 firings of U.S. attorneys.
Candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama draw an Oscar-worthy crowd
Stocks advanced Thursday morning, extending the previous session's big rally on hopes for a bond insurer bailout and reports that the White House and Congressional leaders have struck a deal for a stimulus package.
A House Committee chairman charges that large numbers of crucial Iraq-related messages have vanished. The White House says not so. Who's right?
The White House has five business days to say whether its computer backup system is possibly storing millions of old e-mails that the Bush administration said were missing, a federal court ordered.
Christ was born in Bethlehem just five miles away from here, and now thousands of years later this historic city has become the birthplace of -- all things -- a new blog the White House hopes will help bring positive attention to President Bush's Mideast tour that begins Wednesday.
The Bush administration fiercely disputed an article that appeared in Wednesday's New York Times on the White House's role in the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, calling it "pernicious and troubling."
When disaster strikes, it can be catastrophic, but the President's official home has a relatively good record of preventing conflagrations
Firefighters quickly doused a two-alarm fire Wednesday in the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which houses the vice president's ceremonial offices and the majority of the White House staff.
The White House must release its visitor logs and cannot hide behind a shield of privilege, a federal judge ruled Monday. The Bush administration has resisted public disclosure while it fights a lawsuit over alleged political influence by conservative Christian leaders.
Illicit drug use by teens continued to gradually decline overall this year, but teen use of prescription painkillers remains popular, according to a study
Stocks gained Thursday morning, as investors weigh mixed retail sales and considered a White House plan to aid struggling homeowners.
Stocks gained Thursday morning, as investors sorted through some mixed retail sales and considered a White House plan to aid struggling homeowners.
Stocks slipped Monday afternoon as investors welcomed the White House's pledge to aid subprime mortgage holders, but continued to worry about how the housing and credit market crisis will hurt the economy in the long run.
Stocks slipped Monday afternoon as investors welcomed the White House's pledge to aid subprime mortgage holders, but continued to worry about how the housing and credit market crisis will hurt the economy in the long run.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected White House claims of executive privilege and demanded Thursday that key White House aides testify in the case of the controversial firings of U.S. attorneys.
The White House's Blue Room has gone green – with this year's Executive Mansion Christmas tree.
As members of the White House press corps, we often get a front row seat to history. But it's normally not a mosh pit. Today's event was a little different.
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted largely along party lines Thursday to tighten supervision of the government's electronic surveillance program despite a White House veto threat.
Pope Benedict XVI will make his first visit to the United States as pontiff next year, and plans to visit the White House, ground zero and speak at the United Nations
The White House report to U.S. lawmakers on progress in Iraq showed meager gains on benchmarks that Congress established for the Iraqi government.
Karl Rove was nearly overcome with emotion Friday as colleagues privately paid tribute to the political adviser as he leaves the White House, senior officials say.
The next attorney general must carry enough stature to push White House anti-terrorism policies, combined with the charm and credibility to win over congressional Democrats, a former Justice Department official said.
A House committee chairman led the criticism Wednesday about the Bush administration's claim that a White House office involved in a dispute over missing e-mails can keep records from the public.
The White House asked for more time to produce documents regarding the legality of the Bush administration's no-warrant surveillance program Monday, but the chairman of the Senate committee that demanded them said "time is up."
The White House demanded in 2004 that the Justice Department approve a secret national security program without allowing the ailing attorney general, "feeble, barely articulate, clearly stressed," to discuss the matter with top advisers, according to the FBI director's personal notes.
With its chief strategist leaving, the Administration must now manage the fallout of his flawed political vision
President Bush's chief strategist joins a lengthening line of senior officials heading for the exits
The White House press corps has some additions this weekend. They don't say much, but when they do speak, even the most jaded journalists can't help but listen -- and smile.
Though Congress is on vacation, majority Democrats are keeping alive various fights with the White House with one common thread: Congress' access to administration documents and testimony to which President Bush has claimed executive privilege.
J. Scott Jennings became the latest sacrificial lamb the White House has sent up to answer questions about the U.S. Attorneys firings
The top aide to White House political adviser Karl Rove refused to answer at least a dozen questions from a Senate committee Thursday about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year, asserting -- as expected -- a claim of executive privilege by President Bush.
The White House on Monday reiterated its claim of executive privilege in the firings of federal prosecutors, saying former aides would not comply with congressional subpoenas for their testimony.
The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to cite two White House aides -- one current, one former -- for contempt of Congress, another step toward a constitutional showdown between the Democratic-controlled Congress and the Bush administration.
President Bush on Wednesday ordered a high-level review of U.S. rules intended to keep out harmful imports in response to growing concerns about the safety of products from China and other countries.
So let's cut to the chase on the new National Intelligence Estimate: Does it show America is safer today than it was on September 10, 2001 -- or not?
The Senate's top Democrat challenged Republicans Monday to help push President Bush to change course in Iraq, hours after the president's spokesman denied a report about White House debate over a troop pullback.
President Bush on Thursday refused to comply with subpoenas sent by House and Senate committees requesting documents about the firing of several U.S. attorneys last year.
The Supreme Court Monday upheld the legality of an internal White House office that forcefully pushes federal aid for religious charities, a case with an unusual nexus of constitutional, financial and political implications.
E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee, the House Oversight Committee said Monday
E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House aides with Republican Party accounts, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee reported Monday.
Subpoenas are being issued to two former White House officials, the first to be subpoenaed in the fired U.S. attorneys investigation.
The Justice Department's former White House liaison denied Wednesday that she played a major role in the firings of U.S. attorneys last year and blamed Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty for misleading Congress
The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to cut in half the number of guest workers that would be allowed into the United States under a controversial immigration overhaul backed by the White House.
President Bush would veto the latest war spending bill -- one that would fund the war in stages dependent on the Iraqi government's progress -- the White House said Wednesday.
The White House has threatened to veto a bill passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday that expands hate-crime laws to include attacks based on sexual orientation or gender.
Millions of White House e-mails may be missing, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino acknowledged Friday.
The White House "screwed up" by not requiring e-mails from Republican Party and campaign accounts to be saved and is trying to recover any documents that may have been deleted, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
The White House is being accused of improperly trying to hide e-mails about government business by using unofficial e-mail accounts.
Illegal immigration is dividing the country, but efforts to tackle the problem may just bring it together. Well, sort of.
In October 1925, a 12 year-old boy in a small California town wrote in a school assignment that he "would like to study law and enter politics for an occupation so that I might be of some good to the people." The boy: Richard Milhous Nixon, some 43 years before being elected the nation's 37th president.
Kyle Sampson, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' former chief of staff, has agreed to testify under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, his lawyer said in a letter to the committee chairman Friday.
Key congressional committee chairmen sent letters Thursday formally rejecting a White House proposal specifying the conditions under which White House aides could be interviewed by Congress about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys.
A 16-day gap in e-mail records between the Justice Department and the White House concerning the firing of U.S. attorneys last year has attracted the attention of congressional investigators.
Whether for treaties, treason, political cover-up, extramarital sex, energy panels or U.S. attorneys, the legal claim of executive privilege has been invoked often in American politics over the past two centuries.
House Democrats voted Wednesday to give their leaders the authority to force White House officials to testify on the firings of U.S. attorneys.
The House Judiciary Committee will vote on whether to subpoena current and former White House officials over the firings of federal prosecutors, the panel's chairman said Friday.
A top White House aide from past administrations speculates that some of the facts in the CIA leak case may never come to light, even with the conclusion of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's perjury trial.
In a tradition dating back 117 years, the White House has taken delivery of its annual Christmas Tree, a Douglas fir from Pennsylvania. The tree will sit in the White House's Blue Room where its decoration will be orchestrated by First Lady Laura Bush.
The U.S. economy should experience slower growth than originally anticipated for the remainder of the year and in 2007, the White House said Tuesday.
The Big Three automakers finally get their day with President Bush Tuesday - and their meeting couldn't be more well timed.
Buckle your seatbelt and put your lobbyist on speed dial. The next two years promise a turbulent ride for much of corporate America.
Senate Republicans wrangling with the White House over proposed rules for the interrogation of suspected terrorists think there is a "50-50" chance of breaking the deadlock, said a Republican Senate staffer familiar with the negotiations.
A Secret Service officer arrested a former NBA player after gunshots were reported just blocks from the White House early Wednesday morning.
CNN's Larry King has interviewed every president since Richard Nixon. Tonight at 9 p.m. ET he conducts his second interview with President George W. Bush since his election in 2000.
Administration officials and Republican insiders said Friday that Treasury Secretary John Snow's resignation announcement is imminent - a matter of weeks or even days.
Administration officials and Republican insiders said Friday that Treasury Secretary John Snow's resignation announcement is imminent -- a matter of weeks or even days.
Around the White House, an abrupt change in the president's public schedule is known as an "audible," and generally, it's the last thing anyone wants to suggest to a boss so allergic to disruption that he makes everyone turn off their cell phones when he's in the room.
Newly released visitor logs show disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was signed in to the White House complex on two occasions since President Bush took office in 2001, including once when the president was out of town.
A disease pandemic could have more impact than a terrorist attack or a hurricane and might be comparable in scope to a war, a new White House report says.
Despite repeated White House objections to the release of documents related to Jack Abramoff's visits to the White House, the Secret Service has agreed to produce all logs detailing the disgraced lobbyist's meetings, according to a court filing released Monday.
President Bush announced his new White House press secretary on Wednesday: former Fox News host Tony Snow.
Sources close to the White House said Monday that Fox anchor Tony Snow is likely to accept the job as White House press secretary, succeeding Scott McClellan.
There are enough former Bush administration economic officials kicking around by now that you might think we'd be having some frank and interesting discussions about what the man in the White House hath wrought on the economic front.
A shake-up in U.S. President George W. Bush's administration widened Wednesday as White House press secretary Scott McClellan announced his resignation and a senior administration official said longtime Bush confidant Karl Rove will no longer oversee policy development.
The man who has been the White House's most visible face in often contentious press briefings for the past two years announced his resignation Wednesday.
A New Mexico man arrested for jumping the White House fence Sunday has been arrested for the same thing three times before, a Secret Service spokesman said.
A top Senate Republican called on President Bush on Sunday to tell Americans why the White House leaked intelligence to bolster the case for the Iraq war in 2003.
Reportedly, following the replacement of Andy Card as White House Chief of Staff by Joshua Bolten more changes of Administration personnel are expected. Also there are the sudden openings at the White House, namely the vacancy Bolten leaves at the Office of Management and Budget and the need to replace Claude Allen as domestic policy adviser. The problem the president and his staff have is finding replacements with "stature." That is the word used in the media, "stature."
As Senate Democrats moved Tuesday to force a procedural vote on a controversial immigration bill, the White House left the door open for support of a proposal that provides a legalization process for illegal immigrants.
Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan and Treasury Secretary John Snow could be next in a shake-up in the Bush administration, according to White House and GOP sources.
Amid calls to inject fresh blood into his White House staff, President Bush announced Tuesday that his chief of staff, Andrew Card, has resigned and will be replaced by budget director Josh Bolten.
It's a near-scientific law of political nature -- falling presidential poll numbers automatically trigger an involuntary collective shout: "Let's shake up the White House staff! Bring in fresh blood! New energy!"
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