Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who doubles as President Barack Obama's point man on Gulf Coast oil spill recovery, is pressing America's armed services to consume as much Gulf seafood as possible.
President Obama announced a deal with Republicans to extend the Bush-era tax cuts at all income levels for 2 years as part of a package that would also keep benefits flowing to the long-term unemployed, cut payroll taxes for all workers for a year an
President Barack Obama should resign if it can be shown that he approved spying by US diplomatic figures on UN officials, the founder of WikiLeaks said in an interview published Sunday.
"The whole chain of command who was aware of this order, and
“I’m pleased to hear the Obama Administration’s announcement that it has reached a deal on the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement. This is an important step forward to expand the reach of American exports, which will help create more American jobs.
One notorious "adjustment" factor the BLS uses in its calculation of monthly unemployment is the birth/death index, in which the BLS "estimates" the number of jobs created at small firms that were just "born", and how many jobs were lost...
The Obama administration went to the mat to defend its predecessors from a torture prosecution in Spain last year, a leaked State Department cable shows.
The cable, released by WikiLeaks this week, shows that senior US diplomats teamed with Republ
Citigroup Inc., recovering from its $45 billion bailout in 2008, is in advanced talks to hire former White House Budget Director Peter Orszag, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Orszag, 41, may take a job in the New York-based firm’s invest
In the name of job creation, the Obama administration doled out billions of dollars in stimulus money to some of the nation’s biggest polluters and granted them sweeping exemptions from the most basic form of environmental oversight,
President Obama dispatched an American aircraft carrier to the coast of South Korea Wednesday in response to a North Korean attack that killed two soldiers and two civilians on Yeonpyeong Island.
Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures when they fly commercially with government-approved federal security details.
If North Korea’s going to flaunt its new uranium-enrichment facility to the world, South Korea isn’t going to sit back and take it. Seoul is considering a request for the U.S. to return tactical nuclear weapons for the first time in 15 years.
The Obama administration has quietly forged ahead with its proposal to sell $60 billion worth of fighter jets and attack helicopters to Saudi Arabia unhampered by Congress, despite questions raised in legislative inquiries and in an internal congress
That a manufacturer of body scanners accompanied the US president on a foreign trip shows the extent of the ties between the industry and the US government.
President Obama dropped a bipartisan bombshell today, announcing he will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom next year to ex-President George H.W. Bush...
(From a friend in support of Fox New's Glenn Beck reporting on the story in the Wall Street Journal - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html )
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to answer this question. For the answer, simply look into your children’s eyes.
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Those fighting for drug policy reform are urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose President Barack Obama's nominee for DEA administrator. Michelle Leonhart has been the interim administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for three year
In September 2010, employment was 139,391,000. In October 2010, employment was 139,061,000. That is a loss of 330,000 jobs in October, a loss even the BLS recognizes. Meanwhile the president is crowing about an alleged gain of 151,000 jobs.
After a two-year hiatus, the Republicans will again be dominant in Washington. A coalition of Tea Partiers and other Americans upset with President Barack Obama went to the polls in an electoral wave to “take our country back.”
Are our vets as well as our men and women in uniform closer to Bush than Obama, as shown on last Thursday’s Veterans’ Day public appearances and television interviews?
And will the Turkey be so unforgiving of former President George W. Bush th
Despite failures, the Unofficial Problem Bank List continued its rise to the 900 level. This week the list count finished at 898 after six additions and two removals. Assets total $418.5 billion, up from $416.5 billion last week.
The Obama administration has decided to de-emphasize plans to begin withdrawing US forces from Afghanistan starting July 2011, administration and military officials said Tuesday.
"This will keep America on its toes. America is going to have to compete. There is going to be a tug-of-war within the US between those who see globalization as a threat and those who accept we live in a open integrated world"...
The inspector general says the editing changes resulted "in the implication that the moratorium recommendation had been peer reviewed." But it hadn't been. The scientists were only asked to review new safety measures for offshore drilling.
The Obama administration will try to persuade a U.S. judge to throw out a lawsuit challenging its program to kill U.S. citizens who have joined militant groups like al Qaeda. In a test of President Obama's war powers, the Center for Constitutional Ri
As US President Barack Obama embarked on his 10 day trip to Asia, he focused on job creation and an economic partnership that he believes will help America. video