No decision has been made on whether to change the current plan to hold the September 11 terrorist attack trial in a civilian court in lower Manhattan, White House officials said Sunday.
Democratic efforts to pass a health care bill have stalled a bit, and the immediate focus may be shifting toward health insurance reform instead of quickly trying to pass a comprehensive bill, White House officials signaled Sunday.
China has threatened to slap sanctions on American companies that sell arms to its rival Taiwan as part of a range of punitive actions Beijing is taking to protest the deal.
The Obama administration is considering a probe into the legality and fairness of college football’s Bowl Championship Series and „the current lack of a college football national championship playoff.”
A new book about former Sen. John Edwards paints him as one willing to risk his marriage and put his party in jeopardy — all in the name of trying to win the presidency.
Overriding objections from China, the Obama administration unveiled a $6.4 billion arms deal with Taiwan on Friday — including about $2.85 billion in missiles.
Despite a promise of greater efforts to step back from the partisan brink, the two parties expressed sharply differing viewpoints during a rare meeting at a House Republican retreat.
Conservative activist James O’Keefe said Friday that the government had „confirmed” that he did not try to wiretap or bug the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana.
President told GOP House members that they would be going home to „more teachers laid off, more firefighters laid off, more cops laid off,” if not for the stimulus.
President Obama told House Republicans on Friday that Americans don’t „want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security.”
The federal government has set aside nearly $2 billion in stimulus funds to clean up Washington state’s decommissioned Hanford nuclear site, once the center of the country’s Cold War plutonium production.