Energy May 2, 2016 Mixed Messages? Obama floats Atlantic drilling plan, moves to lock down Alaska The Obama administration pitched a plan Tuesday to open up parts of the Atlantic Ocean to drilling for the first time, even as it moved to lock down parts of Alaska indefinitely.
Cabinet May 2, 2016 Obama administration, GOP-led Congress prepare for fight over Bush-era education law The Obama administration is gearing up for a battle with congressional Republicans over one of the signature domestic policies of the George W. Bush administration, No Child Left Behind.
Cabinet May 2, 2016 Obama administration imposes sanctions on North Korea, after Sony hack The Obama administration on Friday imposed a wave of sanctions against members of the North Korean government, amounting to the U.S. government's first official response to the cyber-attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Cabinet April 28, 2016 Change for a $20: Tubman to replace Jackson on new bills; Hamilton stays The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that abolitionist Harriet Tubman will replace former President Andrew Jackson on the new $20 bill – while Alexander Hamilton will remain on the front of the $10 note.
Energy April 28, 2016 Strange Bedfellows: Obama, fossil fuel industry unite against kids' climate suit President Obama and the fossil fuel industry at last have found common cause: fighting a lawsuit brought by kids and teenagers over the administration’s alleged inaction on global warming.
isis April 28, 2016 Report details ISIS atrocities against Christians, presses State for ‘genocide’ label The Knights of Columbus, along with In Defense of Christians (IDC), released a comprehensive report they say makes the case that the terror campaign against Christians and other minorities in the Middle East can only be called one thing: genocide.
OPINION April 14, 2016 Machiavellian or dumb? Obama's take on Hillary Clinton's emails is hard to figure out It is difficult to tell from President Obama whether he wants the mountain of evidence of Hillary Clinton's criminal behavior presented to a federal grand jury or he wants her to succeed him in the White House.
Cabinet April 10, 2016 Issa, Grassley say Fast and Furious document release a 'fraction', fails to meet subpoena Republicans lawmakers who led probes into the Obama administration’s botched Operation Fast and Furious gun-trafficking operation are criticizing the court-ordered release Friday of related documents, saying they are only a “fraction” of those requested in subpoenas.
Cabinet March 17, 2016 Clinton tried to change rules to use BlackBerry in secure facility for classified information Less than a month after becoming secretary of state, and registering the personal email domain that she would use exclusively for government business, Hillary Clinton’s team aggressively pursued changes to existing State Department security protocols so she could use her BlackBerry in secure facilities for classified information, according to new documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Cabinet March 11, 2016 Democratic lawmakers launch blast at inspectors general in Clinton email probe Five congressional Democrats, including the ranking members of the Senate and House intelligence committees, have written to the State Department and Intelligence Community watchdogs demanding that their investigations of Hillary Clinton's private email be "impartial, independent and diligent."
Cabinet February 29, 2016 Lynch: No ‘artificial deadline’ on DOJ’s Clinton email probe Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Monday in an interview with ӣƵ that the Justice Department has no deadline for concluding the Hillary Clinton email investigation and that it’s being handled “like any other review,” even with the presidential election just months away.