Washington Bureau

President Barack Obama's millions of campaign supporters are receiving e-mails urging them to call members of Congress. Groups allied with the White House are running ads scorning the president's opponents....

President Barack Obama, responding to growing taxpayer and political outrage, reversed course Monday and ordered his administration to "pursue every legal avenue" to challenge $165 million in bonuses recently paid...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that President Barack Obama has intensified the nation's risk of terrorist attacks by jettisoning key elements of the Bush administration's aggressive approach. The...

The election of Barack Obama as president has been hailed as a crowning achievement of America's civil rights movement, the triumph of a black candidate in a nation with a...

Desiree Rogers once made millionaires of a lucky few everyday people. Now she plans to give Americans dinner invitations to the White House. Rogers, a svelte, stylish Chicago business executive...

Desiree Rogers once made millionaires of a lucky few everyday people. Now she plans to play Lady Luck again, with the prize this time being dinner invitations to the White...

Even before Michelle Obama landed on Vogue's March cover, White House social secretary Desiree Rogers earned a four-page spread in the February issue, wearing an Oscar de la Renta ensemble...

In an unusual defense of the U.S. economy, President Barack Obama declared Saturday that the Chinese and other foreign investors can have "absolute confidence" in Treasury bonds and other American...

No longer will there be "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Obama administration said Friday. Moreover, President Barack Obama no longer claims his role as commander in chief allows...

The next Air Force spy craft is likely to be a giant, unmanned dirigible that can remain aloft at high altitudes, keeping an unblinking watch on vehicles, planes and even...