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Some soldiers from Fort Campbell will spend July Fourth with President Barack Obama at the White House.

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that health care companies and their employees - including those clustered in middle Tennessee - have nothing to fear from efforts to radically reform the system.

President Obama campaigned on a promise to bring a new era of openness and transparency to the White House.

American Legion Post 104's Honor Guard, assisted by Tennessee Helping Hearts, who will be setting up a booth containing their materials on helping all veterans.

A pair of chandeliers made from discarded bottle caps, glass beads and recycled plastic trinkets by a small group of artists from the Klein Karoo town of Barrydale are hanging in the White House.

Huzzah! Thanks to a few pointed questions from the press corps at a White House news conference, the long Obama captivity of the media is at an end.

Obama's White House stagecraft is to present an approachable yet authoritative president at an accessible White House.

Published: Friday, June 19, 2009 at 5:11 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 19, 2009 at 5:11 a.m. In their heart of hearts, few in the Obama administration would have predicted late last year that they would be this well positioned by June to achieve a major victory on health care.

Classic rockers Styx visited the White House Monday. Conservatives are right: The river to hell really does flow through the Obama administration .

It was only a matter of time before First Lady Michelle Obama sprang to the wall of the White House Organic Garden and demanded more organic food--a heartfelt campaign fully as sincere as her husband's ongoing demand that the affluent countries fight off man-made global warming by taxing away most of their energy.

Skateboard legend Tony Hawk has taken photos of himself cruising through the halls of The White House on his board.

Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 14:27. One can't help but think there is considerable danger in Barack Obama's unswerving determination to alter the nation's health care landscape at what may be a cost most Americans can't even fathom.

Mike Royko wrote one of his best columns 15 years ago this month. It was about why he wouldn't go to dinner at the White House.

Gallup offers up an interesting antidote to conservative consternation and liberal triumphalism: Thus far in 2009, 40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal.

Residents in White House now have a new option for medical care. Crossroads Urgent Care Center celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon cutting on Thursday.

Interested in a public tour of the White House? Plan far ahead, and don't get your hopes up.

WASHINGTON -- When Noblesville High School teacher Bruce Hitchcock gives a group of students a behind-the-scenes look at Washington, he likes to take them through the White House.

Eds: APNewsNow. AP Photo DCHG101, DCHG102 WASHINGTON Strong winds have knocked down a tree on the White House's North Lawn.

The actress went on "The Tonight Show" with Conan O'Brien last night and first up was her recent trip to D.C. for the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Responding to critics upset by the Obama administration's inaction on gay issues - expectations were heightened by all that talk of "fierce advocacy" - Jim Messina, the deputy White House chief of staff and point man on LGBT issues, insists that the president's "commitment has not wavered," and "complained that the administration hasn't gotten ...