White House

President Obama told the Prince that Americans like the royal family "much better than they like their own politicians." He may be right.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said the decision followed a Secret Service investigation into the Jan. 26 incident. The FAA is conducting its own review.

The envelope arrived Monday, and the agency did not announce to whom the letter was addressed. Further tests are being conducted to confirm the initial results.

The Secret Service director is asking Congress to give the agency funding to build a replica at its training compound in suburban Maryland.

The decision to test drones over the nation's capital comes shortly after an unmanned aircraft landed on the White House lawn.

The American Civil Liberties Union had challenged the policy of detaining mothers and children seeking asylum in the U.S.

Four months after he was brought back to an agency that was struggling to cope with a series of embarrassing missteps, Joseph Clancy was named permanent director of the Secret Service on Wednesday.

The new Authorization for the Use of Military Force, or AUMF as it's known, bans the use of U.S. forces "in enduring offensive ground combat operations."

President Obama says it would break protocol to meet with Israel's prime minister just two weeks before Israeli elections. The two leaders have developed a prickly relationship over the years.

Alberta's leader is in Washington to lobby Congress and the Obama administration to push ahead with the controversial pipeline.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency said one of its employees was operating the quad copter that crashed Monday on the grounds of the executive mansion. The worker was off duty at the time.

The agency says the person who had been operating the device reported that it crashed after they lost control. The White House says the device posed no threat.