WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama should seek tougher sanctions against Iran, which will be his biggest Middle East challenge, outgoing White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to lead the CIA, which has been widely criticized for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, Democratic officials said on Monday.

HCI Books will publish The White House Boys: An American Tragedy in January.

Will he, or won’t he dare? That was the question that consumed an otherwise social luncheon of Republican women at the White House last week.

(Washington) President-elect Barack Obama has made it official, naming Nancy Sutley to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Sutley is the first prominent member of the LGBT community to earn a senior role in the Democrat’s new administration. Speculation began circulating a week ago that she would be named …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats are drafting legislation to demand that the White House do more to reduce home foreclosures before Congress will agree to release additional money for the $700 billion bank bailout program.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats are drafting legislation to demand that the White House do more to reduce home foreclosures before Congress will agree to release additional money for the $700 billion bank bailout program.

KABUL (Reuters) - President George W. Bush told Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday the United States would stand by the war-torn country despite a transition of power at the White House.

KABUL (Reuters) - President George W. Bush told Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday the United States would stand by the war-torn country despite a transition of power at the White House.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House was studying on Saturday how best to rescue collapsing U.S. automakers, a day after picking up the pieces of a failed congressional bailout plan.