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President Barack Obama has delayed his first international trip of the year, a three-country visit to Asia, to focus attention on the final push to salvage health care legislation after a year of contentious debate.

Hispanic and black businesses are receiving a disproportionately small number of federal stimulus contracts, creating a rising chorus of demands for the Obama administration to be more inclusive and more closely track who receives government-financed work.

In a potential reversal, White House advisers are close to recommending that President  Obama opt for military tribunals for the self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind and four others.

Reuters - Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who is advising the Obama administration, said the U.S. dollar's role as the world's reserve currency is likely not in jeopardy, but warned central bankers to keep a close eye on inflation.

Two thousand federal transportation workers were furloughed without pay on Monday, and the Obama administration said they have a Kentucky senator to blame for it.

White House social secretary Desiree Rogers is stepping down three months after an uninvited couple crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner and she was heavily criticized for allowing it to happen.

AP - The renaissance of nuclear power in the U.S. appears inevitable. It just may not happen as smoothly as the Obama administration and others hope.

Eye-popping health insurance premium increases of up to 39 percent are not an exception but a worrisome sign of the times, the Obama administration said in a report Thursday.

Three-quarters of Americans say that they support openly gay people serving in the U.S. military, a finding that could lend momentum to the Obama administration's effort to dismantle the policy known as "don't ask, don't tell."

The election is still a long way off but Republican Sarah Palin was sounding very much like a candidate at a Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tenn.