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

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.

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.

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.

President Obama's top intelligence adviser, Dennis Blair, has resigned. His office oversees 17 federal agencies of the U.S. intelligence community.

President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation’s 112th justice, choosing his own chief advocate before the Supreme Court to join it in ruling on cases critical to his view of the country’s future, Democrats close to the White House said.

Senior White House correspondent Major Garrett reports this morning that while there's definitely a "front runner" for the Supreme Court nomination, nothing is a done deal. Two senior administration officials deeply involved in President Obama's deliberations on choosing a nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens say no decision has been made and that interviews are contemplated and nominee qualifications are still being reviewed.

President Obama plans to nominate three new Federal Reserve governors, a source says.