A renowned debating society at Britain's Cambridge University said Monday it would offer pole dancing tuition to members, in a building more used to the presence of international statesmen. The Cambridge Union Society said female students would be offered lessons in the sensuous dance more often associated with strip clubs than the historic chambers of one of the world ...

Eugene Allen, a White House butler who served presidents from Harry Truman through Ronald Reagan, has died. He was 90. Allen died of renal failure Wednesday at a hospital in Takoma Park, Md., The Washington Post reported Friday. Allen, who was black, started at the ...

Jerald terHorst, who resigned as White House press secretary rather than defend President Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, is dead at age 87. A longtime Detroit News journalist, terHorst served for a month as Ford's spokesman in 1974 before quitting to ...

Forget Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers. Washington visitors apparently want to see the likes of John Quincy Adams, Grover Cleveland and perhaps Chester A. Arthur. The city's Madame Tussauds wax museum is preparing to rebrand itself as the only place with sculptures of all ...

A glance at changing public access and security at the White House through history: ___ 1790s — People wander with impunity through the construction site while the Executive Mansion is being built. Eventually, a pass is required to get inside the site. 1801-1809 — President Thomas Jefferson opens doors of the ...

TIRANA (Reuters) - The small Albanian town of Fushe-Kruje plans to erect a statue of former U.S. President George W. Bush to commemorate his June 2007 visit, when he was feted as a hero in an outpouring of love for America. Mayor Ismet Mavriqi said seven Albanian sculptors had entered the competition for the statue he plans to unveil in ...

"Woodrow Wilson" (Knopf, 704 pages, $35), By John Milton Cooper Jr.: Soon after he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson told a former colleague at Princeton University that all of his preparation for office was in the domestic sphere and it would be "an irony of ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Monday he would have preferred to leave the White House in a coffin because he loved being commander in chief, but signaled his political life was over. "It's good that we have a (term) limit. Otherwise I would have stayed until I was carried away in a coffin. Or ...

Lady Bird Johnson said walking through the White House was like walking "through history." Hillary Clinton called the home "a repository of America's storied past." Michelle Obama has called it "awe inspiring." The authors of a new book have another name for the president ...

US President Barack Obama doesn't think racism is an "overriding issue" in criticism of his polices, according to TV interviews to be broadcast Sunday as part of a media blitz pushing the White House's health care reform. "Are there people out there who don't like me because of race? I'm sure there are. That's not ...