Daniel Stone

What does it take to be the best public high school in America? Daniel Stone reports from the campus.

Their non-profit siblings provide money to the cash cows, without having to publicly disclose their donors.

A startling new report reveals the billions in government dollars that benefit America's wealthiest citizens.

A Newsweek investigation into Tea Party pork.

How the White House lost its eco-mojo.

Alex Trebek bounds across the blue-toned stage, past the giant board of clues, eager to take questions from the studio audience. It's somewhere around the 6,000th episode of "Jeopardy!" he has hosted, and interacting with the crowd, he says, is his favorite part of the job.

To the extent that the Obama administration has a strategy on the turmoil in Egypt, it seems, for now, to want to remain as neutral as possible. In the wake of escalating confrontations between protesters and riot police across most of Egypt, the White House announced Friday it was monitoring the situation closely and for most of the day refrained from making any statements that could potentially exacerbate the uproar.

The new White House spokesman, who is not part of Obama's Chicago-centric inner circle, takes on one of Washington's hardest jobs, just as the president pivots toward his reelection campaign.

Obama intentionally did not mention gun control in his State of the Union, but aides say that in the next two weeks the administration will unveil a campaign to get Congress to toughen existing laws.

State of the Union addresses are supposed to be heavy on the broad language and sweeping rhetoric about people and parties coming together. The actual work comes days and weeks later, of course, but the president's most-watched prime-time speech was designed to argue that America's brightest days lie ahead—if we make the right choices now.

Many groups provide opportunities for Americans, young and old, to help their communities, their country, and people in distant lands. Some outfits require specific expertise; others are just looking for committed people to assist a good cause. Following are five organizations that put helping hands to work.

President Hu Jintao requested a "quintessentially American experience" at the White House—and he got one, from apple pie to open political discourse.

Want details on tonight's state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao? Good luck, says Dan Stone, who reports on the importance of the affair and who might be on the guest list.

A cheat sheet of issues that Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Obama are expected to talk about this week.

Washington is a city that loves to tweet—more than 200 members of Congress are avid users of Twitter, obsessively sharing their real-time thoughts on every legislative decision to pass through the House or Senate these days. And now the rage has spread to D.C.'s foreign diplomats.

Looking in from abroad, much of the world has historically been baffled by America's gun laws. In no other country can a mentally unstable person access a Glock pistol as easily as suspected Arizona shooter Jared Loughner did.

Every few years the defenses of the nation's nuclear plants are tested. What's scary is how often they fail.

From a year of enormous whoppers—like the president's alleged $200 million-a-day trip to India and the claim that the stimulus created not one job in the private sector—the editors at Politifact have identified the biggest deception of all.

After a Virginia judge ruled against a part of the health-care-reform package, the White House countered that it wasn't surprised. Many judges have had different opinions. The place where opinions will really matter, it seems, is the Supreme Court.

The president's unannounced overnight trip to meet with troops in Afghanistan is being framed as an end-of-year opportunity to thank the armed forces in the war zone.

Compared with the epically seismic U.N. climate summit last year in Copenhagen, this year's meeting in Cancún might end up a small, hardly noticed international event. That might be a good thing.

The words "bureaucracy" and "efficiency" usually don't make it into the same headline. But the White House's efforts to cut the government's energy use are making some progress.

Administrator Lisa Jackson talks about working with a new GOP majority.

President Obama has taken some flak over his fondness for participatory sports. It appears to have caught up with him in a post-Thanksgiving basketball game, when he took an unfriendly elbow straight to the lip.

Clean and abundant, hydrogen is the fuel of the future—and always will be. Or so the joke goes. In California, for example, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger envisioned 100 auto-ready hydrogen stations along the coast. After five years, however, only a few dozen are in place, and enthusiasm—not to mention funding—has waned. Without a larger network, automakers won't commercialize hydrogen-ready cars. But without cars, few companies have been keen to invest in fueling stations—until now.

The presidency has grown, and grown and grown, into the most powerful, most impossible job in the world.

George W. Bush, a president unaccustomed to self-doubt, returns to the spotlight to express confidence and certainty about his time in office.

The Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to impose strict new limits on smog-creating emissions like sulfur dioxide. The guidelines aren't due until next year, however, which has inspired a last-minute push for leniency in the coal-rich states of Appalachia.

A reflective president muses publicly about what the midterm victory for Republicans says about his agenda—and himself.

A jubilant GOP has swept the House. Now the real work begins.