16 Jun 2013

Bloomberg yesterday quoted a source as saying that following an attack on his company by Chinese hackers in 2010, Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, was provided with highly sensitive US government...

6:51AM
30 May 2013

The Obama administration said it knew in advance of Republican senator John McCain's trip to Syria, a visit that raised anew the question of whether the United States will intervene in a civil war...

3:10AM
18 Apr 2013

Two letters suspected of containing the deadly poison ricin and addressed to US President Barack Obama and a senator were related and bore a postmark from Memphis, Tennessee. The FBI said the...

2:30AM
28 Feb 2013

Journalist Bob Woodward on Wednesday said a senior White House official told him he would “regret” taking issue in recent days with President Barack Obama’s version of how across-the-board budget...

1:17PM
1 Feb 2013

First they waved the British colonial flags. Now some are petitioning the White House to help resolve the baby formula shortage. Why don't these people just formally ask the Brits or Americans to...

3:02AM
31 Jan 2013

A petition, created on the White House website's "We the People" section, had more than 5,000 signatures on Thursday morning. "Local parents in Hong Kong can hardly buy baby formula milk powder in...

11:23AM

The Obama administration has officially rejected a citizen petition calling for the building of a Star Wars-style Death Star, citing the enormous cost, its opposition to destroying entire planets...

6:08AM

The White House and its allies are weighing military options to secure Syria's chemical and biological weapons, after intelligence reports showed the Syrian regime may be readying the arms and may...

2:25PM

US President Barack Obama has made Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner the lead White House negotiator in crisis budget talks with congressional leaders aimed at averting the fiscal cliff.

6:18AM

There has been a bipartisan cast to US presidential engagement with China since Richard Nixon blazed the trail to Mao Zedong's Beijing 40 years ago. But that bipartisanship extends in a very...

11:25PM

Huawei Technologies, the world's second-largest supplier of telecommunications equipment, may have caught a break from the backlash of a congressional panel's report last week that branded it a...

3:33AM

The White House’s computer system was targeted in a cyber attack, a senior administration official said, but no classified systems were breached.

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