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The White House spokesman came to his daily on-camera briefing on Friday wearing a red-and-white Canadian hockey jersey — the result of not one, but two losing bets on the U.S.-Canadian rivalry at the recent Winter Olympics.

How Senate Republicans could trip up Democrats in the final stages of the legislation's passage

A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity.

President Barack Obama's intense juggling of domestic issues reflects all the realities he faces at once: a vast agenda, a smaller window for results this year and a need to keep promises to constituencies that will have a huge say in the fall congressional elections.

President Barack Obama is delaying his trip to Asia next week to focus on his big push on health care.

The majority leader of Utah's House of Representatives says that he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going ''hot-tubbing'' with her when she was minor a quarter century ago.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were hospitalized Thursday after they were involved in a car accident, according to Reid's office.

President Barack Obama is donating the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and survivors of Haiti's earthquake, among others.

The House voted unanimously Thursday to impeach a U.S. district judge from Louisiana, who lawmakers said avoided likely criminal charges related to alleged payoffs in part because the statute of limitations expired.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Thursday he has recused himself and appointed an independent counsel in his office's investigation of Governor David Paterson.