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The Secret Service director and the couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner have been called to testify ...

Growing discontent over the economy, recovery efforts turn into a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the administration.

The Obama administration on Wednesday defended plans to try the self-professed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks in criminal courts despite harsh criticism from Republicans who say the trials are too risky.

Thomson Correctional Center is a top option to house Guantanamo transfers. The Obama administration says the Defense Department could hold proceedings against terrorism suspects at the rural site.

After a slow start, the Obama administration's mortgage relief program has reached one in five eligible homeowners, a government report says.

The Obama administration says spending aimed at boosting the economy has created or saved 250,000 teaching or other education jobs this year.

The Obama administration’s effort to help homeowners avoid foreclosure may not achieve its goal of helping 3 million to 4 million borrowers, a government watchdog group says.

Half a million troubled homeowners have seen their loan payments lowered under an Obama administration program.

A majority of Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday called on the Obama administration to let the authority to tap a $700 billion financial bailout fund expire at the end of the year as scheduled.

The White House on Monday fired back after former Vice President Dick Cheney called the Obama administration's decision to open a probe into alleged CIA abuses an "outrageous political act." White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs broadly dismissed Cheney's comments on "FOX News Sunday" as typical and unfounded.