White House admits top Obama aides knew a month ago about IRS ...

Currently Senior Director for Asian Affairs in the White House National Security Staff (NSS), Danny Russel, has been nominated for the post of Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

Senior Asian-American leaders met with President Barack Obama and senior staff in a meeting that has been called a 'meaningful' discussion on immigration, health care and civil rights. The meeting with Obama on Wednesday is the first time that the president ...

President Barack Obama is considering naming a senior diplomat to work on sending prisoners at Guantanamo Bay home or to third countries.

Americas troubled ties with Pakistan is back on track, a senior Obama Administration official has said, while cautioning that the Pakistanis can be expected to act when it is in their interest.

Noting that this is the 60th year of US-South Korean alliance, Senior Director for Asian Affairs Daniel Russel said the alliance has grown in a way that really has made it a global partnership with cooperation across many fields

President Barack Obama's plan to raise Medicare premiums for upper-income seniors would create five new income brackets to squeeze more revenue for the government from the top tiers of retirees, the administration revealed Friday. First details of the plan ...

President Barack Obama is preparing to send lethal weaponry to the Syrian opposition senior administration officials have said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior aides to President Barack Obama knew weeks ago about a watchdog report on the U.S. Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups, a spokesman said on Monday, shifting the focus to the White House in a fast-moving ...

The Senate's second-ranking Democrat is pressing the Obama administration to explicitly spell out its justification for using drones for targeted killings.