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Officials say top Democrats in the House are circulating health care proposals that would require individuals to purchase insurance if they can afford it and slap an unspecified financial penalty on those who refuse.
President Obama visited the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany Friday.
The White House dispatched first lady Michelle Obama to defend Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said administration officials are planning to use text messaging and social networking sites like Facebook to help engage the world.
President Barack Obama has nominated former Republican Rep. Jim Leach as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Attempting to improve relations between the U.S. and Muslim countries, Obama is traveling to several Muslim nations to meet with leaders.
President Barack Obama warned Thursday that if Congress doesn’t deliver health care legislation by the end of the year the opportunity will be lost, a plea to political supporters to pressure lawmakers to act.
On the 100th day since he signed his economic stimulus bill into law, President Barack Obama touted its successes. The president says the plan has saved or created 150,000 jobs.
He’s holding face-to-face meetings with finalists, officials say.
The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint over the $150,000-plus designer wardrobe the Republican Party bought to outfit vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing.
The President speaks to the press in the South Drive at the Oval Office(Video.)
Obama makes jabs at himself and others in humor-filled address at White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
Rep. Michele Bachmann is on a roll. Less than a week after suggesting a link between the swine flu outbreak and Democratic control of the U.S. government, the Minnesota Republican penetrated a heretofore unseen zone …
His once-prominent political career is buried and the turmoil of his marriage is playing out in public. Now, John Edwards is facing a federal inquiry.
The two-time Democratic presidential candidate acknowledged Sunday that investigators are assessing …
Condoleezza Rice, the former US secretary of state, has dismissed claims she approved the use of torture when she was US National Security adviser. The former secretary of state caused a storm when she said …
The Obama administration’s recently launched official Flickr photostream was just the beginning: On Friday, the tech-savvy administration announced the roll-out of ‘White House 2.0.’
“Today the White House is taking steps to expand how the administration …
On April 29, 2009, President Obama marked his 100th day in office by getting out of Washington and going right to the heartland of America, conducting a town hall meeting in Arnold, Missouri. That night, …
On day 100, president says he’s pleased with progress, but ‘not satisfied.’

