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President Barack Obama's top economics advisor, Larry Summers, is to leave the administration at the end of the year.

Consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren will help set up a new watchdog agency policing the financial marketplace on behalf of borrowers and save ...

President Barack Obama has chosen Austan Goolsbee to succeed Christina Romer as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, U.S. administration officials said on Thursday.

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's surprise announcement today that he would not seek a seventh term in 2011 immediately set off speculation that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel would enter the race.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan won approval Tuesday of a divided Senate Judiciary Committee, moving her a step closer to becoming President Barack Obama's second appointee on the high court.

President Obama reached back to the financially happy days of Bill Clinton to pick the next budget director, announcing on Tuesday that Jacob Lew will be nominated for the key fiscal post.

President Obama will use a “recess appointment” to name Dr. Donald M. Berwick to run Medicare and Medicaid.

White House Budget Director Peter Orszag plans to step down from his job in July, making him the first senior member of President Barack Obama's economic team to leave, the New York Times reported on Monday.

Calling him one of America's "most experienced and most respected intelligence professionals," President Barack Obama has nominated Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper to be the new director of national intelligence.

Elizabeth Birnbaum, director of the embattled U.S. Minerals Management Service, which oversees offshore drilling, has been fired, Fox News has confirmed.