Congressional leaders switched gears from health care to national security on Sunday in the wake of a foiled Christmas Day effort to blow up a Northwest flight inbound to Detroit from overseas. While lawmakers from both parties called for enacting tougher security measures in response to the thwarted attack, Republicans accused President Barack Obama of [...]
The Obama administration is moving forward on two fronts in response to the failed bombing on a Detroit-bound airliner.
The administration is also investigating aviation detection systems to see how the alleged attacker managed to get on board the Northwest flight in Amsterdam with explosive materials.
The Justice Department has brought more federal hate crimes cases this year than in any year since 2001.
In 2001, there were 31 such cases filed. The number fell to a low of 12 in 2006, before starting to rise again, reaching 23 in 2008.
The total is at 25 so far in the Obama administration’s first [...]
President Barack Obama is asking bank executives to support his efforts to tighten the financial industry, while bankers are prepared to tell the president he should stop oversimplifying their concerns if he wants good-faith collaboration.
Administration officials described the meeting as a continuation of discussions the president initiated early in his tenure and the latest push [...]
Fresh from his election victory, Barack Obama introduced a new national security team last December that included two key players - National Security Adviser Jim Jones and holdover Secretary of Defense Robert Gates - he had hardly met. A third, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had been his bitter rival in the Democratic presidential primaries.
The Obama administration plans to announce on Wednesday that it intends to extend the life of the 700 billion financial bailout fund until next October, administration officials said on Tuesday.
Both officials requested anonymity.
One official said the administration was expected to pledge to use no more than 560 billion from the fund.
The Obama administration plans to cut its estimate of the projected costs of the government bailout program by more than $200 billion, a Treasury official said Sunday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the administration’s new projection has not been presented to Congress, said the reduced cost estimate reflected faster repayments by big [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama is looking for help in Afghanistan from Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan even as tensions simmer between the NATO allies on Iran and the Middle East.
Turkey took over the rotating command of the NATO peacekeeping operation in Kabul last month and doubled its number of troops to around 1,750.
WASHINGTON The Obama administration on Wednesday said it plans to release a young Guantanamo detainee after military and civilian judges banned almost all evidence against him that they ruled was extracted through torture.
The Justice Department asked U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle to grant them 22 days to release Jawad seven days to notify Congress [...]
The Obama administration, scrambling to get its main housing initiative on track, extracted a pledge from mortgage company executives to improve their efforts to assist borrowers in danger of foreclosure.
As of this week, only about 200,000 borrowers were enrolled in three-month trial loan modifications, out of about 370,000 who were offered modifications by mortgage companies.
