Jay Carney

Newsweek, which has recently become a conduit for a series of controversies for its cover art choices, drew more attention with the debut of its latest issue, declaring President Obama to be "The First Gay President." The cover, featuring Obama...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Three of the 12 Secret Service agents involved in the Colombia prostitution scandal refused to cooperate with authorities and submit to a polygraph test, according to House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, R-New York....

Washington -- A Democratic strategist apologized Thursday for a comment questioning Ann Romney's qualifications to advise her husband on women's economic issues, while the Romney campaign sought to exploit the controversy to help fix a gender gap...

NEW YORK -- President Obama and the first family saw their income drop by almost $1 million in 2011 as sales from his best-selling books slowed. The Obama family, in tax returns released Friday by the White House, reported an adjusted gross income of...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzaion Thursday condemned photos of U.S. soldiers posing with bodies of suspected insurgents as he called for "an accelerated and full transition of security responsibilities to Afghan forces." Karzai, who...

WASHINGTON -- As officials warn of more Secret Service resignations as soon as Friday stemming from a prostitute scandal in Colombia, one of the former agents allegedly involved joked on Facebook that he checked out former vice presidential candidate...

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made $42.7 million over the past two years and paid $6.2 million in taxes, according to documents released Tuesday by his campaign. Romney and his wife, Ann, filed a joint 1040 reporting $21.7 million in 2010...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Investigators have now interviewed all 4 Marines identified in a video that shows them apparently urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. At least 2 of the men are being described as "uncooperative," by the...

HOMS, Syria -- Two Western journalists were killed Wednesday in the Syrian city of Homs amid heavy shelling from government forces, opposition activists said. The Sunday Times of London said one of the journalists reportedly killed was reporter Marie...

(CNN) -- Rick Santorum awoke to a new reality Wednesday after sweeping all three Republican presidential contests a day earlier, reshaping the contest that will decide who runs against President Barack Obama in November. Santorum won caucuses in...

Four straight days of shelling and bombing by Syrian government forces into the besieged city of Homs have left residents cowering, afraid to escape and fearing for their lives as bodies lie in the streets, unable to be recovered. That's how activists in...

Washington -- Freed hostages Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted arrived at a U.S. base in Sicily Thursday, a day after being rescued in a U.S. military raid in Somalia, a spokesman for the base said. The pair are now at Naval Air Station Sigonella, said...