President Barack Obama made a numberof smart changes to the U.S. drone war and detention policiestoday, and they should leave all Americans deeply unsatisfied.

In a major speech on Thursday, President Barack Obama defended his administration's policy on investigating leaks regarding information sensitive to national security. But he conceded that he was "troubled" about its potential effects on stymieing jo

President Barack Obama has faced a lot of criticism about his administration's harsh stance on marijuana, and much of it comes from medical cannabis users...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of commerce is facing scrutiny in the Senate for her ties to a subprime mortgage lender that...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - President Barack Obama was heckled Thursday about drone strikes and conditions at the prison at Guantanamo Bay during his speech on national security. The president was interrupted by a woman several times during his remark

President Barack Obama was heckled during a major foreign policy speech Thursday when talking about closing Guantanamo Bay. According to multiple reports, the heckler was Code Pink protester Medea Benjamin. Benjamin shouted at least three times and i

For the first time in his presidency, Barack Obama has succeeded in placing a judge on a key Washington appeals court.

One can read "The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama" to get a true sense of Obama's "the best defense is a relentless drone everyone offense, ignore collateral damage and take out a few Americans in the process" policy. Or one can stare at rising sta

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave a robust defense on Thursday of U.S. use of unmanned armed drones and said the threat of terrorism to the United States had shifted since the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Since they began in November 2002, in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia, the US has conducted approximately 425 non-battlefield targeted killings

In a major speech on U.S. counterterrorism policy Thursday, President Barack Obama laid out his administration's legal framework for drone strikes, including those that target American citizens with legal force.  The speech came one day after th

Live video: President Obama addresses drone policy

President Barack Obama is giving what the White House bills as a major speech on drone and counterterrorism policy at the National Defense University today.  Obama is also outlining some new steps he wants to take to move toward closing the pris

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out a new U.S. policy on Thursday that limits the use of armed drones to times when Americans face an "imminent" threat, administration officials said.

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out a new U.S. policy on Thursday that limits the use of armed drones to times when Americans face an "imminent" threat, administration officials said.

In light of the recent scandals that have rocked the administration, political figures both in and out of office have spoken out on the possibility...

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama'schoice to lead the Department of Commerce faced questions onThursday about her role in the failure of a Illinois bank in theearly 2000s and her billionaire family's use of offshore taxhavens to s

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Department of Commerce faced questions on Thursday about her role in the failure of a Illinois bank in the early 2000s and...

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Department of Commerce faced questions on Thursday about her role in the failure of a Illinois bank in the early 2000s and her billionaire family's use of offshore tax havens

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will vow on Thursday to be more open to the public about the U.S. fight against terrorism and may lay out limits for the use of lethal drones abroad while sketching a vision for closing the milita

* Pentagon may take control of some drones from CIA (Adds limits on drones, increase in Guantanamo hunger strikers)

WHEN Barack Obama fired the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earlier this month, he doubtless hoped to quell the hullabaloo about its seemingly partial treatment of applications for tax-exempt status from conservative groups. He fail

The normally friendly Jon Stewart has been one of President Barack Obama's foremost critics on the IRS scandal and on the Justice Department's aggressive behavior toward journalists in leak investigations. But there are some people, Stewart said, who

House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that it is "inconceivable" President Barack Obama wasn't informed of the investigation into the IRS' targeting of conservative groups before news broke earlier this month. "It's pretty inconceivable to me tha

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly made an appearance Wednesday night on "The Daily Show," where he and Jon Stewart discussed the scandal-plagued White House.  Particularly, they focused on the leak investigation involving Fox News reporter James Rosen

As Tesla becomes the first recipient of a U.S. Energy Department loan to pay off its debt, Obama may be better equipped to silence his critics.

An important article in the Latin American press peculiarly has not gotten the attention it deserves. Or perhaps not so peculiarly, given the Obama administration's intention to keep the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations as far out of the public

The U.S. Department of Justice appears to have neither conducted nor received any analyses that would show whether criminal charges against large financial institutions would...

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - The White House threatened on Wednesday to veto a Republican bill to switch federal student loan interest rates to a market-based system, arguing the plan would create...

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - The White House threatened on Wednesday to veto a Republican bill to switch federal student loan interest rates to a market-based system, arguing the plan would create more uncertainty for students and families.

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - The White House threatened on Wednesday to veto a Republican bill to switch federal student loan interest rates to a market-based system, arguing the plan would create...

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice to be transportation secretary promised on Wednesday to work with Congress to figure out how to fund U.S. transportation needs during a...

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice to be transportation secretary promised on Wednesday to work with Congress to figure out how to fund U.S. transportation needs during a time of tight budgets and faced lingering Republica

One puzzling response to the IRS mess, common among pundits, is demanding firings, of anyone, anywhere, now, yesterday – Obama should just make heads roll!...

The Obama administration is set to restart transfers of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, kick-starting a long-stalled drive to close the prison.

Washington is awash in scandals. TheWhite House is fending off inquiries on three fronts: itsresponse to the terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost inBenghazi; the Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny ofconservative groups seeking tax exe

Put aside the politics, and thequestion of who-knew-what-when. There are two policy problemshighlighted by the controversies at the Internal Revenue Serviceand the Department of Justice. The first is the growth of501(c)(4) groups into vehicles for an

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is poised to become the ninth Republican governor to support expanding Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care reform law, the...

At least two investor groups have expressed interest in salvaging Fisker Automotive, the troubled maker of luxury plug-in hybrid cars, but both proposals would require the Obama administration to accept pennies on the dollar for a taxpayer funded loa

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's nominee for transportation secretary is getting a friendly reception from senators of both parties laced with warnings that the nation...

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obamawill travel to the Oklahoma City area on Sunday to see thedevastation caused by tornadoes this week and to talk tofamilies affected by the storm, White House spokesman Jay Carneysaid on Wednes

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to the Oklahoma City area on Sunday to see the devastation caused by tornadoes this week and to talk to families affected by the storm, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on We

Eric Garcetti, a former international studies professor, was elected mayor of Los Angeles yesterday. Here's all you need to know about him: He is the son of Jewish mother and a father of Mexican and Italian descent. He was endorsed by former Obama a

When the Obama administration went public with the first-ever comprehensive data on disparities in hospital billing last week, we knew it would be a game changer. There was just one thing that really bothered us: It's a beast to navigate. It's basica

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will travel to tornado-ravaged Moore, Okla., on Sunday. That's according to a White House official, who wasn't authorized to publicly...

A top lawmaker on Wednesday pestered a key Obama administration official about a systemic risk super-council charged with identifying risks to the economy, arguing the group’s vital proceedings lack transparency.

President Barack Obama's second-term agenda hit a road block this month when a series of scandals within the administration stacked up, one after another. From...

WASHINGTON — A Senate panel has endorsed President Barack Obama's slate of five nominees to sit on the National Labor Relations Board. Two of them...

(Corrects to 67 from 60 the votes needed in Senate to overcome presidential veto)

(Corrects to 67 from 60 the votes needed in Senate to overcomepresidential veto)