White House News

MILWAUKEE - President Obama says rewarding greed, recklessness, special interests won't fix economy. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is awarding a posthumous Medal of Honor to an Air Force chief master sergeant who braved enemy fire to help three wounded comrades before suffering his own fatal wounds during combat in Laos in 1968. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama plans to meet at the White House next week with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (AHN'-derz FOHG RAHS'-moo-sihn). Full Story »

WASHINGTON - The White House is condemning attacks in Pakistan that left dozens dead. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - The United States expects to spend about $6 billion a year training and supporting Afghan troops and police after it begins pulling out its own combat troops in 2011, The Associated Press has learned. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Israeli and Palestinian leaders plan talks with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Jerusalem this month. The setting is a symbolic move to show the seriousness of peace negotiations. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Friday, warning the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long time" to reach an agreement. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Israel and the Palestinians have set a goal of reaching a final peace settlement within one year, a highly ambitious aim given past failures and future obstacles. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - South Korea's envoy to stalled North Korean nuclear talks is meeting with senior U.S. officials as China and the North reportedly are pushing for the disarmament negotiations to resume. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - A government official said Friday that a scientist has been detained in Miami after screeners found a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will hold a news conference at the White House on Sept. 10. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's special envoy for Mideast peace says the leaders of Israel and the Palestinians concluded a productive first round of peace negotiations. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says President Barack Obama is a "committed, mainstream Christian" — contrary to the claims of Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - The Taliban is confronting a serious "cash flow" problem after losing some half of its annual drug trade money to a farming blight and government eradication efforts, a Marine two-star general said Thursday. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will work hard to try to strike a long-lasting peace deal with Israel, but that Israel must agree to a full freeze on all its settlement activity in Palestinian territories. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (neh-ten-YAH'-hoo) says he wants to secure a lasting peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, calling it a "peace they deserve." Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Federal prisons are failing to notify crime victims and witnesses when inmates are allowed to travel by themselves for medical treatment, the Justice Department inspector general said Thursday. Full Story »