Topic - White House

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  EDITORIAL: Obama's free abortion pills

  Someone should tell President Obama there's no such thing as a free abortion pill. The White House is trying to douse a political wildfire sparked by an Obamacare mandate forcing religiously affiliated institutions to provide a full range of contraception measures for employees - including pills that induce abortions.

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  Obama backtracks on contraception mandate

  Reacting to an election-year firestorm, the White House on Friday shifted course on its health care contraception mandate, announcing that religious employers will not have to cover free birth control for their employees and that the responsibility would instead fall to private insurers.

• Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

  Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:

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  KNIGHT: Paper-thin cover for liberal agenda

  Although I get a lot of news online, I love to read real newspapers. You can linger forever on a particular page without getting eye strain, or you can physically flip it with gusto to show your contempt for what some editor thought should be holding your interest.

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  Obama: Birth control policy meets everyone's needs

  President Obama declared Friday he's found a solution that will protect religious liberty but also ensure that women have access to free birth control, as he rushed to defuse an election-year political uproar that threatened to overtake his administration.

• AP sources: Obama revamping birth control policy

  Senior administration officials tell The Associated Press that President Barack Obama on Friday will announce that religious employers will not have to cover birth control for their employees after all. He will demand instead that insurance companies will be the ones ultimately responsible for providing free contraception.

• AP Source: Obama to change birth control rule

  President Barack Obama will announce a plan to accommodate religious employers outraged by a rule that would require them to cover birth control for women free of charge, according to a person familiar with the decision.

• Obama watches 'Homeland' so Washington tunes in

  Want to know what's going on behind doors in Washington?

• First lady's trips boost health _ and her husband

  In just the past few days, she's danced with cheering school kids, chatted with troops, swapped ideas with busy parents and engaged in a friendly cooking competition with stars from "Top Chef."

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  Foreign donations at risk in super PAC landscape

  Money pouring into the presidential election from super political action committees and nonprofit campaign groups appears so far to be strictly American in origin, donated by U.S. companies, unions and millionaires. But it's easier than ever to conceal the source of money and the identities of contributors, making conditions ripe for illegal donations from foreigners, overseas companies or governments attempting to help a favored candidate for the White House.

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  Obama signs Giffords' final bill into law

  President Obama has signed into law a final bill authored by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was wounded in an Arizona shooting rampage a year ago.

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  Republicans accuse White House of Solyndra stonewall

  House Republicans accused the White House on Thursday of stonewalling a congressional probe into the failed $535 million loan guarantee to bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra LLC, and threatened to issue subpoenas later this month to secure interviews with "key administration staff."

• Embassy Row

  Rarely does a diplomat speak so bluntly, but with that one word in a Twitter post, the U.S. ambassador to Russia set off a buzz in the blogosphere this week, as he slapped down a critic who accused him of trying to topple the government in the Kremlin.

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  Coffee-table book adds artists' stories to presidential portraits

  JFK fidgeted, but Richard Nixon sat perfectly still. No, not in the historic televised presidential debate, but in sitting for their respective portraits.

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  10 states can drop No Child law, submit new plans

  Ten states were given an exit from the mandates of the No Child Left Behind law Thursday, as the Obama administration followed through on its promise to overhaul federal education policy without Congress.

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