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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has bonded with female senators about her childhood love of Nancy Drew mysteries and shared war stories with the Senate's former prosecutors about her days in the gritty Manhattan district attorney's office.

The Obama administration appointed Kenneth R. Feinberg to the new post, giving him broad discretion to set pay for 175 top executives at seven of the nation’s largest companies.

The Alabama senator leading the Republican Party's vetting of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said the American tradition of impartial courts is "under attack" and the pivotal question in her nomination should be whether she allows personal views to color her decisions as a judge.

A lengthy questionnaire filled out by Judge Sonia Sotomayor was delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday in preparation for Sotomayor's expected U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings this summer.

New York Rep. John McHugh is President Obama's choice to be the new secretary of the army, a decision likely to set off an extremely competitive special election for the Republican's 23rd district House seat.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor is set to begin making the rounds Tuesday on Capitol Hill, meeting key U.S. senators who will help decide whether or not she becomes the country's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor dominated the sounds of Sunday, as you might expect on the weekend after the first African-American president announced his nomination of the first Latina woman for the nation's highest court.

Announcement will be made before Obama leaves for a two-day trip to California and Las Vegas that will focus mostly on fundraising events.

President Barack Obama will name Charles Bolden, a four-time space shuttle astronaut and retired Marine general, as administrator of NASA as it faces questions about its future, the White House said on Saturday.

President Obama will announce the nomination of a leading Republican governor, Jon Huntsman of Utah, as the U.S. ambassador to China, an official confirmed.