Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The Obama administration considers reports that hackers in China tapped into the e-mail accounts of American government and military leaders to be a “serious” national security issue, a White House spokesman said Thursday. On Wednesday, Internet giant Google reported that hackers based [...]

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – President Obama ordered a review of government regulations Tuesday in an effort to eliminate administrative obstacles to business and industry. He announced the review in a commentary published by The Wall Street Journal, saying he wanted to balance the need for regulation with [...]

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The U.S. Small Business Administration urges small businesses in Mississippi suffering financial losses due to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill to apply for economic injury disaster loans. “These low-interest disaster loans can be part of their business recovery solution,” said Frank Skaggs, director of SBA’s Field Operations Center East in Atlanta. The SBA is [...]

The Obama administration has reportedly put pressure on Switzerland about any moves to offer a haven to WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, warning that country’s government to be careful about which person it is offering asylum to, even as the latter’s supporters have erected numerous copies of the site on the Internet on Sunday. View full [...]

A ban on the drilling off Florida’s coast in Gulf of Mexico or any where else along the East Coast, was announced earlier this week by the Obama Administration despite the fact that in March he agreed to expansion of offshore drilling. View full post on All Stories

Citigroup — which is still 11% owned by the federal government after their bailout — is close to hiring former Obama administration budget director Peter Orszag, the Financial Times reports. “People familiar with the situation said Mr Orszag, who left the White House team in July, was likely to be offered a position dealing with [...]

Disclosures by the secret web site WikiLeaks have revealed that the Obama administration and its representatives in various foreign capitals described French President Nicholas Sarkozy as an “Emperor without clothes”, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as ‘Hitler’ and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as an “Alpha Dog”. View full post on All Stories

The Obama administration late Wednesday defended the integrity of its estimates – which turned out to be inaccurate – during the summer of how much oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico, turning over thousands of pages of internal e-mails written by government scientists who worked on the project. View full post on All Stories

US President Barack Obama is touting the revival of a bailed-out auto company as a vindication of his administration’s controversial decision to bail out the financially strapped auto industry last year. View full post on All Stories

By Peter Lord PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Sen. Jack Reed joined environmental advocates Tuesday in calling on the Obama administration to increase fuel efficiency standards so that cars and light trucks will achieve an average of 60 miles per gallon by 2025. If the standards were in effect today, Rhode Islanders would save $728,000 traveling during [...]

President Barack Obama has ruled out a permanent extension of tax cuts for the richest Americans while seeking to extend breaks for the U.S. middle class, a top administration adviser said. View full post on All Stories