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White House Counsel Bob Bauer is stepping down from his West Wing post, the Obama administration announced Thursday.

The Obama administration, expanding a program created by the new healthcare law, reduces premiums on preexisting condition insurance plans and loosens restrictions on who can sign up for them.

Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday credited the Obama administration's intervention for the American auto industry's recovery from "the brink of extinction."

Republican lawmakers are stepping up pressure on the Obama administration to craft a Plan B just in case budget talks fall through and the debt ceiling remains frozen past the Aug. 2 deadline Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has set.

Jon Huntsman is considering a run for president but may have trouble overcoming his time in the Obama administration.

A computer glitch corrupted the State Department's annual worldwide lottery for U.S. immigrant visas and the results will be scratched, the Obama administration said Friday, disappointing tens of thousands of would-be immigrants who were notified this year that they had won a chance to come and live legally in the United States....

The Obama administration is giving Amtrak and rail projects in 15 states the $2 billion that Florida lost after the governor canceled plans for high-speed train service.

The Obama administration has seen no evidence Pakistan's leadership knew Osama bin Laden was living in that country before his killing last week by U.S. forces, the U.S. national security adviser said on Sunday.

Was the killing of Osama bin Laden legal under international law? The Obama administration says it was. Experts are unsure.

The Obama administration can continue using federal tax dollars to fund human embryonic stem cell research, an appeals court ruled on Friday, overturning a judge's decision and handing a victory to the White House.