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07/19/11 BILOXI -- A Mississippi State University architecture professor who helped in the coastal rebuilding effort after Hurricane Katrina is being honored today at the White House.
07/19/11 The Gang of Six, led by an anarchist comedian from Oklahoma, was applauded by the White House for throwing a pie in the face of the elderly. Bill Clinton doesn't need to parse the 14th Amendment.
07/19/11 Former Bush White House deputy press secretary Scott Stanzel (R) is mulling whether to challenge Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) in a race next year, the Seattle Times reports. He said he won't decide until after he gets married in September.
07/19/11 BOSTON -- Without a clear Democratic front-runner emerging in the race to unseat U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, liberals at home and away are wooing White House consumer adviser Elizabeth Warren to enter the race.
07/18/11 The first item on the menu at Dick's Hot Dog Stand hasn't changed since the year Warren G. Harding moved into the White House and Rudolph Valentino's "The Sheik" was the top silent movie.
07/18/11 White House press secretary Jay Carney said the Republican embrace of "cut, cap and balance" was "classic Washington posturing." Read more...
07/18/11 WASHINGTON, July 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- At a White House meeting today with President Obama and US business leaders to address education reform, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) pledged to contribute $10 million toward education over the next five years, with at least one-third of the funds going toward drop-out prevention in the lowest performing schools in the United States. This commitment continues ...
07/18/11 Monday's MLB news briefs: President Barack Obama will open the White House to the team in honor of its 2010 defeat of the Texas Rangers in Game 5 of the World Series last fall. It's the first World Series title for the Giants in more than 50 years.
07/18/11 Mayor Mitch Landrieu, in partnership with the White House Busi ness Council, the White House Office of Public Engagement and the Domestic Policy Council, will host an Urban Entrepreneurship Forum on Wednesday, July 20, 2011, at Xavier University in New Orleans to focus on providing tools to support job growth and foster economic success for local entrepreneurs.
07/18/11 President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the White House announced Sunday.
07/18/11 Southwest Florida will be represented Tuesday at the White House, where two Lee County officials and two local men will share success stories in...
07/18/11 FIGHTIN' FRIGHT Who's buying into White House scare tactics? Not Republicans, and not tea partyers either, says a new Pew Research Center poll gauging public reaction to President Obama's predictions that certain doom looms if the debt ceiling isn't raised by Aug. 2. Oh, the drama. Even Reuters points out ...
07/18/11 The Senate will block President Barack Obama's pick to lead a new U.S. consumer watchdog agency if the White House snubs structural changes, GOP lawmakers say.
07/18/11 Sunday's announced nomination of former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was a blow to liberals hoping for White House consumer protection adviser Elizabeth Warren to head the new regulatory body. But it doesn't look like the Harvard law professor and tenacious Wall Street critic is going to let that political capital go to waste ...
07/18/11 Ross Douthat on How Republicans Lost Ground Ross Douthat wonders how the Republican party, with control of only one chamber, could set the country's agenda for so long and then suddenly lose their control. "In the space of a few days," he writes in The New York Times , "a party that once looked capable of pressing the White House into a deal that would have left liberals fuming found itself ...
07/18/11 Unless the White House and Congress agree to raise the federal debt ceiling, the United States will start defaulting on loan payments and other obligations starting Aug. 2. Here's a sampling of editorial comment on the high-stakes debate and the consequences of inaction:
07/18/11 The good news is Austin Williams, a 15-year-old cancer patient, made it to Washington, D.C. He got his tour of the Smithsonian and the White House and made it in time for his visit with the Dalai Lama.
07/17/11 If the White House has a plan for how it will deal with a potential default on its bills, budget director Jacob Lew wasn't talking about it Sunday.
07/16/11 Three Booker T. Washington High School graduates are back in Memphis after an internship at the White House.
07/16/11 The initiative for resolving the debt limit crisis is shifting back from the White House toward Capitol Hill, where House and Senate leaders are preparing alternative legislative strategies to avoid default.
07/16/11 Sparta's Town and Country Days festival is underway. This is the fifth ... President Barack Obama has invited the Dalai Lama to the White House Saturday, ... | 
