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AP - The Obama administration is calling for stronger privacy protections for consumers as mobile gadgets, Internet services and other tools are able to do a better job of tracking what you do and where you go. More...

AP - Rushing to end a political uproar, President Barack Obama on Friday will announce that religious employers will not have to cover birth control for their employees after all, The Associated Press has learned. The administration instead will demand that insurance companies will be the ones...

DETROIT -- Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said Friday that he had accepted the resignations of his chief of staff, Shannon Holmes, and his communications chief, Karen Dumas. The resignations come just days after a former mayoral staffer, Rochelle Collins, filed a lawsuit in Wayne County Circuit Court...

Vice president Joe Biden says START is "a fundamental part of our relationship with Russia" Washington -- Top Democratic lawmakers will join Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday morning for a news conference to discuss the need for the Senate to approve a nuclear treaty with Russia...

The Liberian president dismissed all but one of her Cabinet ministers this week in a move she says will help give her administration a fresh start. President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf announced Thursday that she has asked her Cabinet to "take administrative leave effective immediately." She made...

Energy committee in oil-spill 'blame game' WASHINGTON, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill argued Tuesday about who is to blame for the BP oil spill, the Bush administration or President Barack Obama. Senior Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee used a hearing on the...

GOP attacks administration spill response WASHINGTON, Republicans charged Sunday the Obama administration has been lax in keeping oil from the massive Gulf of Mexico spill away from shorelines. With no oil gushing into the gulf for the first Sunday in almost three months, the GOP lawmakers...

Reports: Justice to challenge Ariz. law WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- The Obama administration will challenge Arizona's immigration law in court, White House officials confirmed to media outlets Friday. The confirmation came after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview with an...

Obama cracking down on leakers? WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- The Obama administration has been aggressively prosecuting government employees who leak information to the news media, The New York Times said Friday. Most of the prosecutions begun under Attorney General Eric Holder involve leaks during...

Scientists question U.S. spill response WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- Some U.S. oceanographers Wednesday questioned the administration's handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, with one scientist calling the response "baffling." During testimony on Capitol Hill, the oceanographers said the federal...

June 3 (Bloomberg) -- Some of the 17 Chinese Uighur Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will likely be released in the U.S. in an effort to convince other countries to accept prisoners from the detention facility, according to current and former American officials. The fate of the...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison until the administration comes up with a satisfactory plan for transferring the detainees there, a top Democrat said Tuesday. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said Obama's plan to...