One of Barack Obama's top advisers on Sunday called on Congress to begin work on an economic rescue plan even before the new administration takes office, and hinted the president-elect could hold off introducing new taxes for his first two years.

teh Guardian: The US president, Barack Obama, looked set to suspend the controversial Guantánamo Bay military tribunals, in one of his first actions after being sworn in yesterday. Within hours of taking office, Obama’s administration filed a motion to halt the war crimes trials for 120 days, until his new administration completes a review of the much-criticised

When a new administration takes office they have insider access to much of what the previous administration has been doing. A major reason why the current administration is resisting all and any change must be because of what is to be found out about their last 12 years in power. If we do manage to drag Brown and his Party to the polls the incoming government is going to be faced with more than th...

Where Barack Obama leant on abstraction, John McCain went in for the concrete: he gave us a real, substantive picture of what his administration would be like in office. It sounded almost like a State of the Union address by a president in office. The theme of "fighting for you" made the most of his own history both as a Washington reformer and as a man who had willed...

Military tribunals to return Top Story: Officials say the Obama administration will restart military tribunals for some Guantanamo detainees, a process that the president suspended immediately after coming into office calling them flawed. Around 20 of the 241 detainees at Guantanamo, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be tried under the system. The administration stressed that the new tribunal...

Thought for the day: The president must go to Congress with hat in hand in order to merge the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Small Business Administration, but he can embroil this country in expensive, bloody, and...

The problem with Iran has certainly not gone away, although the lack of administration attention to it might make you think that it has! President Obama and his administration are a little preoccupied at the present time (and basically since inauguration day 2009) with campaigning for the 2012 election. This upcoming event appears to take precedence over all others! They have a campaign to run, cl...

The Obama administration has begun to talk of a long and difficult process towards a peace settlement that the US president made a high policy priority from his first day in the Oval Office

In his acceptance speech Wednesday in Oslo, Martti Ahtisaari, the former president of Finland, urged President-elect Barack Obama of the United States to give high priority to the Middle East during in his first year in office.

The Obama Administration's reaction to the Johannes Mehserle case is a superb example of our 'post-racial' president in action. Former Oakland transit cop Johannes Mehserle made two huge mistakes. The first one happened back on New Year's Eve, 2009 when he accidentally grabbed what he thought was his taser to subdue Oscar Grant and ended up shooting him with his pistol instead....