Politics

Secret Service Investigating How Couple Crashed White House State Dinner The Secret Service is reviewing whether criminal charges may be warranted for a Washington- area couple who got past security to crash a state dinner at the White House, a spokesman for the agency said.

Feinberg Stumping Helps White House Skirt Public Outcry on Executives' Pay Kenneth Feinberg’s decision to slash executive pay at taxpayer-rescued companies was “sheer stupidity,” says Home Depot Inc. co-founder Kenneth Langone. Not so, says compensation analyst Paul Hodgson: If anything, Feinberg is a “pay kitten” soft on Wall Street.

Obama to Offer 17% Emissions-Cut Goal at UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen for climate-change talks, where he’ll offer to cut U.S. emissions about 17 percent by 2020 in an effort to help break a deadlock between rich and poor nations.

Obama Will Lay Out Afghan War Strategy in Speech at West Point on Dec. 1 President Barack Obama will lay out his strategy for the war in Afghanistan on Dec. 1 in a nationwide address from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.

Health Insurance, Finance Lobbyists Visited White House, Records Show President Barack Obama and top administration officials met at the White House this year with lobbyists and advocacy groups on both sides of the health-care overhaul debate, records show.

Health-Care Bill Faces Traffic Jam as Senate Weighs Debt, Tax Legislation Raising the U.S. government’s $12.2 trillion borrowing limit tops an agenda of must-pass legislation that imperils Senate Democrats’ ability to pass a health-care bill this year.

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