President Obama calls on Congress to pass a clean extension of the transportation bill to keep America moving and avoid costing nearly one million workers their jobs. This post was submitted by The White House / IM.

The Labor Department’s monthly report is the worst showing in a year and offers stark evidence that hiring has stalled. About 14 million people were officially unemployed in August, and many of those who do have jobs saw their weekly hours trimmed. Jobs seekers wait in line at a job fair in San Mateo, Calif. [...]

CNN’s Dan Rivers gets inside Moammar Gadhafi’s intelligence headquarters and finds thousands of dossiers intact. This post was submitted by CNN.

SAN FRANCISCO — In the New York City elementary school where Sara Shenkan-Rich used to work a few years ago, students squabbled over petty things, bullied each other, were restless in class and showed high levels of stress. But at the Sherman Elementary School in San Francisco’s Marina District where she is the principal, kids [...]

Welcome to West Wing Week, your guide to everything that happens at 1600 Pennslyvania Avenue. This week we are broadcasting dispatches from Vice President Joe Biden’s trip through China, Mongolia and Japan. In between meeting with world leaders and speaking with locals, the Vice President took in the sights, sounds and culture of the far east. Join the [...]

The jobless rate is expected to end this year at 9.1% and average 9% next year. On the bright side, a double-dip recession isn’t predicted. The grim outlook comes as President Obama prepares to outline new stimulus proposals next week. At a job fair this week in South Los Angeles, thousands of unemployed people waited [...]

The agency that oversees mortgagemarkets is preparing to file suit against more than a dozen big banks, accusing them of misrepresenting the quality of mortgages they packaged and sold during the housing bubble, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is expected [...]

Throughout our history Americans have used petitions to unite around issues they care about. We the People provides you with a new way to petition the federal government to take action on a range of issues. And if your petition attracts enough support, White House staff will review it, ensure it is sent to the [...]

Twenty-five of the 100 highest paid U.S. CEOs earned more last year than their companies paid in federal income tax, a pay study by a Washington think tank said on Wednesday. At a time when lawmakers are facing tough choices in a quest to slash the national debt, the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning [...]

Imagine waking up as your alarm’s going off, reaching over and opening a window…and gazing out at terra firma in repose. No, not a poster of planet earth affixed to your window, but the real deal, viewed from your very own hotel suite, hundreds of miles above the planet’s surface . “The hotel will be [...]

On Sept. 18, 2001, I landed in Cairo on an extended assignment in the Islamic world. It was nearly impossible to find an Egyptian who believed foreign news accounts of the events that had rocked America one week earlier. Very few would unequivocally condemn the attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. Almost no [...]

President Obama today praised the extraordinary decade of service rendered by the 9/11 Generation of our military, the more than five million men and women — all of whom voluntarily joined the armed forces over the past ten years. He also paid special tribute to the more than 6,200 Americans who have given their lives [...]

Nisreen lies listless curled under a blanket, an armed rebel guard at her door. She looks vulnerable, and younger than her age – 19. She has soft features, a heart-shaped face, large brown eyes and full lips. She speaks haltingly, often falling into a tortured silence, unable to verbalize her thoughts and emotions as haunting [...]

The Los Angeles County Weights and Measures Bureau tests scales at airports once a year. Here are its latest findings at LAX, Long Beach Airport and Burbank’s Bob Hope Airport. Now that most airlines charge up to $45 to check a bag, air travelers worry about stuffing as much as possible into one bag without [...]

JAKARTA – It is a seemingly unending conflict in a part of the world famous for both its awesome remoteness and the incredible wealth on and beneath the ground. For half a century, Indonesian troops and police officers have fought a shadowy and sporadic war in the vast forests and highlands of Papua, as the [...]

LOS ANGELES — A report by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) details the major policy, budget and organizational changes that have occurred in the U.S. immigration system as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The report, “Through the Prism of National Security: Major Immigration Policy and Program Changes in the Decade Since 9/11,” finds [...]