Obama Administration
After two years of secretly tweeting inside information about the Obama administration and often insulting comments about the foreign policy community, the man behind the mystery Twitter account was finally unmasked and fired last week.
Obama has called in computer experts to fix the glitches on the website for the new health insurance marketplace, HealthCare.gov. The glitches have been hindering consumers from participating in the exchange.
Americans should be able to use mobile devices they bought on whatever networks they choose. That's what the White House believes, as it filed a petition to the FCC on Tuesday, requesting that the federal regulatory agency "immediately initiate the process of setting rules" that will allow consumers to unlock their devices without fear of punishment.
During Monday's press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney made it clear that the Obama Administration did not abandon the goal to pass a 2013 immigration reform bill.
In the first 8 months of 2013, 311 immigration laws were approved in 43 states in the United States, revealed a recent report by the National Conference of State Legislatures. However, the organization pointed out that not all of these laws have been made to "punish" undocumented immigrants in the country.
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Thomas Perez as secretary of Labor, becoming the first Dominican and sole Latino member of President Barack Obama's Cabinet.
According to a recent Gallup poll, the Obama administration has a 70 percent rate of approval among Hispanics.
The Obama administration is planning to unveil a decade-long study of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of all of the brain's activity as early as next month. This ambitious project, called the Brain Activity Map (BAM), is hoping to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that The New York Times, The Washington Post and other news outlets withheld information about the Obama Administration controversial drone attacks in the Middle East.
On Monday, January 21, millions of people worldwide will be watching President Barack Obama deliver his second-term inauguration speech in Washington, D.C.
In light of the America's financial crisis, the famous science spokesman Bill Nye urges lawmakers to continually invest in NASA.