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President Barack Obama is forming a White House Office of Olympic, Paralympic, and Youth Sport.
President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Health and Human Services Department has a history of bucking the insurance industry, which faces the biggest hit under Obama's initial health care reform plan.
Declaring that "there is a force for good greater than government," President Barack Obama on Thursday established a White House office of faith-based initiatives with a broader mission than the one overseen by his Republican predecessor. Obama said the new office, which he created by executive order, would reach out to organizations that provide help "no matter their religious or political beliefs."
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to lead his effort to design an overhaul of the nation's health care system and shepherd it through Congress.
Jay Hein, former director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, is joining Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion.
A glance at days for which e-mail may have gone missing from the White House. The dates were noted in a letter from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to White House Counsel Fred Fielding.
Opening a new front in the Bush administration's battle to keep its records confidential, the Justice Department is contending that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
Illegal drug use in the United States has dropped sharply since 2001 but abuse of prescription drugs remains a problem, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said Friday.
Drug traffickers dive: Using submarines CALI, COLOMBIA -- It was on a routine patrol that the Colombian coast guard stumbled upon an eerie outpost amid the mangroves: a mini-shipyard where suspected drug traffickers were building submarines.
Watchdog groups agree: White House needs to turn over lost email records nowA motion filed Friday by the National Security Archive seeks to compel the White House to hand over records that show it has maintained backup tapes of the deleted e-mails, as required by presidential record-keeping laws.
Scientists Denounce Global Warming Report 'Edits': Public Health Experts Say Edits Represent Censoring of ScienceEnvironmental and public health experts overwhelmingly denounced editing by the White House of a federal health agency head's testimony to Congress Tuesday. Significant deletions were made from the testimony, concerning global warming and the potential impact on human health.
Bush climate advisor says temperature change won't 'affect people's lives, not linked to events'"Not actually linked to regional events." That's the quote Bush's top science adviser made yesterday, saying there's no conclusive evidence that limiting the earth's temperature increase of two degrees Celsius would actually do anything.
Burden Set to Shift On Balanced BudgetBut that view ignores some important facts, U.S. comptroller general David Walker said.
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