WASHINGTON -- White House press secretary Jay Carney on Wednesday defended the Obama administration's decision to skip the first Senate hearing on dro...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration failed to participate in the Senate's first hearing Tuesday on the use of drones for targeted killings, Senate ...

WASHINGTON -- An executive order being crafted by the Obama administration that would require government contractors to disclose campaign contribution...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama accepted an award for making the government more open and transparent – presented to him behind closed door...

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress objected Thursday to the Homeland Security Department's now-rescinded practice of requiring secretive revie...

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department official in charge of submitting sensitive government files to political advisers for secretive re...

WASHINGTON — One government agency is still trying to find correspondence for a political reporter between federal officials there and prospecti...

WASHINGTON — Two years into its pledge to improve government transparency, the Obama administration took action on fewer requests for federal re...

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, released his 2006 tax returns last year. This year his campaign has been hammering Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, for not...

White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who is making transparency a centerpiece of his presidential bid, will now put on his schedule fund-ra...