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President Barack Obama is going to the heart of the U.S. auto industry to push an important election-year claim: his administration's unpopular auto industry bailout has turned into an economic good-news story.

A bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by World Trade Center dust fell short in the House on Thursday, raising the possibility that the bulk of compensation for the ill will come from a legal settlement hammered out in the federal courts.

President Barack Obama is signing legislation to fund his troop surge in Afghanistan.

A Charlottesville, Va., resident who stood with President Obama would likely not have been asked to participate in a Rose Garden speech on unemployment if the White House had known she was convicted of prescription drug fraud charges in April 2009, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday.

The federal court decision striking down key provisions of Arizona's immigration law could light a fire under lawmakers considering an alternative -- and some say radical -- approach to reining in illegal immigration. 

Supporters of Arizona's immigration law, who were dealt a blow this week when a federal judge blocked major parts of the law before it took effect Thursday, are still heartened by what's left of the legislation that may bolster the enforcement of federal immigration laws.

A criminal investigation into the leak of tens of thousands of secret Afghanistan war logs could go beyond the military, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday, and he did not rule out that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be a target.

The full Senate must now approve retired Lt. Gen. James Clapper to be the fourth director of national intelligence. 

With less than 100 days until the midterm elections, American voters would give the edge to Republicans by an 11 percentage-point margin if the Congressional election were today. Yet a majority doesn't think a Republican takeover of Congress would lead to positive change.

A federal judge may have yanked the teeth out of Arizona's new immigration law this week, but that hasn't stopped all the boycotts of the state that spread nationwide in protest of its passage.

Hundreds rallied against an abbreviated Arizona illegal immigration law that went into effect on Thursday, but the cause of three arrests is unknown. 

President Obama is clearly the biggest star not invited to Chelsea Clinton's wedding this weekend, but protocol experts say the bride's mother, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was under no obligation to invite her boss. 

Estimates of the number of graves potentially affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew to as many as 6,600 on Thursday, as the cemetery's former superintendent blamed his staff and a lack of resources for the scandal that forced his ouster.

A House ethics panel on Thursday unveiled 13 allegations of misconduct against longtime Rep. Charles Rangel, prompting the New York Democrat to declare he's done nothing wrong.

New jobless claims fell last week for the third time in four weeks but remain elevated. 

Arizona's court-altered illegal immigration law went into effect just after midnight Wednesday, hours after a federal judge blocked its most controversial provisions -- including on-the-spot police checks of suspected illegal immigrants.

Arizona Rep. Harry Mitchell's response to the decision Wednesday by a federal judge to knock down portions of the Arizona illegal immigration law isn't likely to appease his opponents in the race to defeat the sophomore Democrat who won the seat from Republican J.D. Hayworth in 2006.

A jury of Rep. Charles Rangel's congressional peers is ready to publicly discuss charges of ethical misdeeds. But the political discussions outside the room will be far more significant.

President Obama is no stranger to having unexpected guests "crash" his White House parties, but he'll have to do just that if he wants to attend Chelsea Clinton's wedding this weekend.

An anti-illegal immigration group is calling on the Obama administration to provide safe passage to illegal immigrants who are trying to leave the U.S. due to the weak economy and Arizona's strict new immigration law.