
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Thursday jabbed at the "family values" of Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband, harkening back to former President Clinton's affair with a White House intern. Complete Story...

Republicans said Thursday that Democrats again will fall short of a veto-proof majority when the House approves a revised children's health proposal that President Bush opposes.
Remarks by President Bush at the State Department on Wednesday about Cuba, as transcribed by the White House.

Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House oversight committee, said Thursday that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has issued an order requiring his approval of any corruption investigations of himself or senior ministry officials.

Two chairmen of key committees in the House and Senate on Wednesday criticized the White House for editing testimony from a government expert about the health impacts of global warming and demanded documents involving the testimony he provided to Congress.

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Judge Leslie Southwick to the federal appeals court in New Orleans after minority Republicans overpowered objections by Democrats who said he wasn't sensitive enough to the history of race relations in the region.

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost as much as $2.4 trillion through the next decade, according to a new analysis Wednesday that the White House brushed off as "speculation."
The White House on Wednesday denied that it "watered down" congressional testimony that the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention delivered on the impact climate change is having on public health.
White House hopeful Barack Obama planned to launch a new radio ad Tuesday in South Carolina featuring the son of civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.

Fidel Castro is accusing President Bush of threatening the world with nuclear war and famine — an attack on Washington that comes as the White House is set to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism.

Republican front-runners Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney defended their conservative credentials in the face of pointed attacks from campaign rivals Sunday night in the most aggressive debate to date of the race for the White House.

The man who flustered White House hopeful John McCain last week by questioning his standing among fellow Vietnam prisoners of war was a contributor to rival Fred Thompson's campaign.
The White House scoffed at Myanmar's moves Saturday to ease restrictions imposed after violently cracking down on pro-democracy demonstrators.

Republican Sen. Sam Brownback abandoned his 2008 presidential bid Friday, his White House aspirations dashed by a lack of support and money.
A U.S. magistrate on Friday rejected arguments by the Bush administration and urged a federal judge to order the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails.

The White House on Friday defended Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey's refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding a form of torture, saying it is a difficult issue to discuss in public.

With crude oil prices crossing $90 a barrel, the White House said Friday that President Bush would like to see prices lower.

The White House said Thursday that President Bush was simply making "a rhetorical point" when he suggested that if Iran obtained nuclear weapons, it could lead to World War III.

The Democratic-controlled House failed to override President Bush's veto of a politically popular children's health bill, and the White House instantly called for compromise talks on a replacement.
A U.S. magistrate indicated Wednesday that a federal court may order the Bush administration to preserve copies of all White House e-mails, a move that a government lawyer argued strongly against.

Four years after her CIA cover was blown in a newspaper column, Valerie Plame is settling scores with the Bush administration, Republican lawmakers and the journalists involved in the White House leak scandal.

The Democratic Congress, a thorn in President Bush's side from the get-go on Iraq, now is contributing to diplomatic headaches for the White House in other parts of the world.

Lobbying for the job of the nation's top law enforcement officer, Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey pledges to strike a delicate balance between keeping the nation safe and protecting the civil liberties of Americans.
Here is a text of a White House statement recommending that President Bush veto legislation that would protect the confidentiality of reporters' sources in most federal court cases:
