President Barack Obama today appointed William Daley as the new White House chief of staff.
While Microsoft slugs-it-out in the CES arena, Google won temporary relief in its cloud-war against Microsoft as it restricted the U.S. Interior department from handing a $59 million contract to Microsoft.
Robert Gibbs, President Obama’s press secretary is leaving the White House. He will depart some time after the President’s State of the Union address on Jan. 25, the administration said today.
The two houses of the 112th Congress commence business today at noon and both veteran lawmakers and newcomers are going to find many important national issues on their collective plates – jobs and the economy, healthcare, last fiscal year’s unattended budget, this fiscal year’s developing budget, immigration, Afghanistan, Pakistan and energy, to name some of the bigger ones.
Professor returns to teach at the Kennedy School of Government after spending two years as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the White House National Economic Council (NEC).
John Boehner, a Republican Congressman from Ohio, gets sworn in tomorrow as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, one of the most powerful positions in the world. He will have to show, almost at once, if he has the stuff for the job.
Top U.S. officials raised broad and specific concerns about Russia's legal environment after the conviction on Monday of one-time oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his associate Platon Lebedev.
As the first two years of President Barack Obama's tenure wind down, the President has made a big push to accomplish some of his goals. While he has kept many of his promises, he has not kept others. Some of those are stalled, others in the works.
Lawyers for 20 U.S. states and Obama administration sparred in a Florida court over the constitutional challenges of the new healthcare law that requires all Americans to have medical insurance before 2014 or face a fine.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Jonathan Bristol, a former law firm partner, with aiding and abetting Kenneth Ira Starr's Ponzi scheme by allowing Starr to use his attorney trust accounts as conduits for transferring the funds stolen from Starr's clients to Starr and his two companies for personal use.
The US Senate is due to vote on the new strategic arms reduction treaty between the country and its former cold-war rival Russia on Wednesday. The House on Tuesday voted to close out the debate 67 votes to 28, after the Democrats were joined by 11 Republicans.
The U.S. Senate on Saturday voted to repeal of the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' law, in a move that would pave the way for gays to serve openly in the military.
The new export control policies proposed by the Obama administration may address some previously identified weaknesses but leave many more open, a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said on Thursday
The Obama administration is setting conditions' to initiate the 'responsible reduction of US troops in Afghanistan, the White House review of Afghan war stated. The troop withdrawal is likely to commence in July as the review maintained that US strategy in the conflict zone has been showing progress.. It also stated that the Al-Qaeda leadership in Pakistan is at its weakest since 2001.
The war in Afghanistan is unlikely to be won, US Intelligence reports suggest. Even as President Barack Obama is all set to announce policy review on the war in Afghanistan, two classified reports state that it could be improbable to end Taliban and Al Qaeda insurgency in the Tribal regions of the country. The reports however, have fueled a bitter row between the intelligence agencies and the military over who has a better perspective and proximity in the war zone.
With American businesses holding nearly $2 trillion on their books, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that a meeting with corporate executives of 20 of the largest U.S. companies will help elicit a variety of ideas to grow the economy and boost jobs amid an anemic recovery.
A combination of electricity demand and the need to reduce fossil fuel use should be fueling a renaissance of nuclear power. But that could be derailed by opposition from an unexpected quarter: fiscal conservatives.
Microsoft won a deal with United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under which it will move 120,000 of its employees to messaging, conferencing and document sharing over the cloud.
Nobel-winning U.S. economist Paul Krugman has said the U.S. economy is sinking with the weight of surging household debt around its neck and that policy makers are crafting measures that do not address the longer-term ills of the economy.
The Obama administration is seeking to give its allies and U.S. exporters a boost, proposing new rules that will ease trade in items that could prove to be security risks if they fell into the wrong hands.
Declaring, “This game is not yet over!” Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY, was joined by her Congressional colleague, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, a few dozen first responders and about 50 supporters today in Lower Manhattan to demand that Congress pass the health and compensation act for the people who got sick working at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Twitter is ending the year with the number of accounts touching the 100 million mark. To celebrate, the site has created an infographic on Twitter's 'Class of 2010', which includes Bill Gates, Kanye West, Tiger Woods and many more.
