In 2008, Leo Tavares* convinced his mother to vote for Barack Obama. He actually walked with his politically naïve mother into the voting booth and told...
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Already scrambling to steady a struggling campaign, Republican Mitt Romney confronted a new headache Monday after a video surfaced showing...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Competing for white working-class voters, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney squared off...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and Democrats pulled slightly ahead of Mitt Romney and Republicans in...
Mitt Romney’s campaign team has been quietly laying plans for an outreach effort to President Obama’s most loyal supporters, black voters, not just to chip away...
The state of Hawaii has verified President Barack Obama’s birth records to Arizona’s elections chief after a nearly three-month back and forth that Arizona officials said...
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell meets with President Barack Obama, in the Oval Office. PHOTO/AP Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew...
President Barack Obama on the campaign trail. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama raised a combined US$43.6 million in April for his campaign and the Democratic Party as...
President Barack Obama with troops in Afghanistan. PHOTO/United States Military, via Associated Press (Reuters) – Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and...
George Clooney and President Barack Obama. PHOTO/Christy Bowe/Landmark Media President Obama’s decision to go public in support of same-sex marriage marked a historic moment for the...
President Barack Obama speaks Tuesday in Washington. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP Ending months of equivocation, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday, an announcement...
Vice President Joe Biden finally said Sunday what gay marriage supporters have been waiting for President Barack Obama to say — but his office’s immediate effort...
U.S. President Obama (l) and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File It’s on. Independent groups favoring Mitt Romney already are launching TV advertisements in competitive states...
U.S. President Barack Obama addressing troops in Afghanistan 2012. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama answered political taunts with presidential muscle Tuesday, addressing the nation from Kabul as...
President Barack Obama says the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden is a time for reflection, and he pushed back on criticism that the...
US President Barack Obama shakes hands with students during a visit to the Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School October 15, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana....
U.S. President Barack Obama on the campaign trail. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama, with the help of a slowly improving US economy, is gaining ground in many...
U.S. President Barack Obama greets audience members at a democratic party fundraiser in Dearborn, Michigan, April 18, 2012. PHOTO/Reuters/Jason Reed A White House official says President...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and GOP contender Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney are locked in a very tight race,...
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigning. PHOTO/File After a long primary season, Mitt Romney begins his contest with Barack Obama without having attracted any notable African-American...
Troops from South Sudan moved into an oil-rich border town claimed by Sudan as fighting intensified between the countries over who controls the area, officials said...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is pulling ahead with a 4-percentage-point lead over Mitt Romney in a general election matchup, according to a...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will nominate Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, a surprise pick for the...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. PHOTO/Eric Feferberg/Getty Images Nigeria Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is not pursuing the World Bank’s top job, her spokesman said Wednesday, amid reports that her...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Obama appears to be widening his lead against all Republican presidential hopefuls, including Mitt Romney, among voters in the swing...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech at a Labor Day event sponsored by the Metro Detroit Central Labor Council September 5, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan....
U.S. President Barack Obama With oil and gas prices at the pump on his mind, President Barack Obama says Congress should kill tax breaks for the...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Barack Obama likes to say that as President of the United States, he doesn’t “bluff” when it comes to foreign policy....
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Vigorously defending his policies, President Barack Obama ridiculed critics of renewable energy sources Thursday, calling them naysayers and comparing them to...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Most Americans don’t actually blame the President for the high gas prices, at least so far. Sixty-six percent of...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/AP As the Republican presidential candidates continue to battle and improvement in the US economy is seen, President Obama is getting better...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is hitting back at Republican criticism of his energy policies and his role in controlling gas prices. Obama...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Employment grows steadily for third straight month – a sign the economic recovery may be sustainable. Praising manufacturing jobs, President Barack...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and GOP candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama’s top reelection strategists derisively painted Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney on Wednesday...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Iran’s top leader Thursday welcomed comments by President Barack Obama advocating diplomacy and not war as a solution to Tehran’s nuclear...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will outline incentives to promote development of more fuel-efficient cars and to make it easier for people to...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File World stock markets fell Monday as tough talk by President Barack Obama over Iran’s nuclear program and uncertainty over Greece’s ability...
President Obama welcomes Israeli President Shimon Peres in the Oval Office Tuesday, May 5, 2009. At right is Vice President Joe Biden. Official White House Photo...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama says higher auto mileage standards set under his administration and better cars built by a resurgent U.S. auto...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama says he means it when he insists it’s unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. “I don’t...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is turning his political sights on New Hampshire, the small but strategically important general election battleground where his...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama plans to announce Tuesday the creation of a new enforcement office to challenge what the White House calls...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country’s brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama says there is no easy answer to the problem of rising energy prices and he’s dismissing Republican solutions...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File After watching the Republican candidates lock the kryptonite that is the immigration issue around their necks during the Arizona debate, the...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – As Republican presidential candidates toss barbs at Barack Obama over expensive gasoline, the U.S. president and his team are...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent and wants an even...
Mitt Romney is burning through cash more than twice as fast as he’s raising it, new reports filed Monday show — a clear sign that a...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Access to college has been the driving force in federal higher education policy for decades. But the Obama administration is pushing...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama says the painful restructuring of America’s manufacturing base means a lot of jobs are gone forever, but not...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama raised US$29.1 million for his campaign and for the Democratic Party in January, a strong fundraising month that...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – A payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, set to expire at the end of this month, would be...
U.S. President Barack Obama Pointing to a rebound in manufacturing, President Barack Obama in Wednesday is visiting a Milwaukee plant that has brought back jobs to...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Obama’s political standing is rising along with voters’ optimism that the economy is getting better, according to the latest New...
U.S. President Barack Obama listens to China’s Vice President Xi Jinping. PHOTO/reuters Barack Obama has warned Beijing that it has to play by the same rules...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is going on the offense Tuesday, raising pressure on congressional Republicans to extend the payroll tax cut and...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is sending Congress a new budget that seeks to achieve US$4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next...
Copies of the a appendix of President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2013 federal budget. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta President Barack Obama’s new budget proposal will ask Congress...
U.S. President Barack Obama/PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will announce a plan to accommodate religious employers outraged by a rule that would require them to cover birth...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, bolstered by a stronger economic outlook and recent job growth, would win in a match-up against...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File A second term for President Barack Obama would allow him to expand his replacement of Republican-appointed majorities with Democratic ones on...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File A few months ago, President Barack Obama looked like he could claim 2012 bragging rights as a deft foreign policy leader....
The overall jobless rate fell for the fifth straight month to 8.3 percent after a surge of hiring. Monthly jobs report featuring mixed results are becoming...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is to visit a state-of-the-art fire station in a Washington suburb on Friday. The president will speak about...
The Obama administration is trying to fix a stubborn drag on the economy by allowing all homeowners to refinance their mortgages at lower interest rates even...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Aiming tax increases at millionaires and companies that ship jobs abroad may help frame the fairness theme of President Barack Obama’s...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is pressing his case for changes in how the Senate does business, hoping to ease the partisan gridlock,...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will announce a plan to shift some federal dollars away from colleges and universities that don’t control tuition...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is announcing the sale of oil and gas drilling leases for nearly 38 million acres in the Gulf...
Declaring the American dream under siege, President Barack Obama delivered a populist challenge Tuesday night to shrink the gap between rich and poor, promising to tax...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File State of the Union speeches allow presidents to command attention before a joint session of Congress, invited guests and, more importantly,...
January 20 was the third inauguration anniversary of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the US. President Obama was inaugurated on the January 20,...
U.S. President., Barack Obama. PHOTO/File As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver his annual address to Congress, many goals he outlined in previous State of the...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s appointments to two key agencies during the Senate’s year-end break ensures that GOP senators will return to work...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File In its budget submission next month, the Obama administration will urge lawmakers to revisit the failed attempt by a congressional supercommittee...
President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress are back where they were before Christmas, locked in an election-season tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The growing anti-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) support that has swept through the gaming and Internet community found a very big...
US president Barack Obama meets King Abdullah of Jordan in the Oval Office. PHOTO/Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Barack Obama on Tuesday decried continued and “unacceptable” levels of...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama plans to accept the Democratic presidential nomination in the open air of Bank of America Stadium on the...
President Barack Obama has a long agenda Tuesday, including hosting King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House. After his daily briefing and meeting with...
President Barack Obama. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak President Barack Obama evoked Martin Luther King, Jr.’s own words about public service Monday as Obama and his family celebrated...
President Barack Obama is promoting his efforts to make government more efficient and to persuade companies to bring jobs back to the U.S. from overseas. He...
President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and...
President Barack Obama annouces Richard Cordray (R) as his nominee to be the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. PHOTO/UPI/Kevin Dietsch The Justice Department is...
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would propose tax incentives for companies to bring home manufacturing jobs they had moved overseas, and curtail tax breaks...
President Obama’s re-election team is already aggressively targeting former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, even as Romney is far from sealing the GOP nomination. Here’s a look...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will focus on American jobs Wednesday, while trying to keep his own. He and Vice President Joe Biden...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images While the media has focused on the Republican presidential primaries, offstage the greatest revolution in American foreign policy in...
U.S. President Barack Obama flanked by William Daley (l) and Jack Lew. PHOTO/Getty Images Jacob (Jack) Lew was named on Monday as President Barack Obama’s chief...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Portia Simpson-Miller (Jamaica Gleaner) – U.S. President Barack Obama today congratulated Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller on her recent election victory and to...
President Barack Obama is beginning the week by hosting the NBA world champion Dallas Mavericks at the White House. Obama, who roots regularly for the Chicago...
U.S. President., Barack Obama The promising drop in unemployment on Friday looks like a job-security bonus for President Barack Obama as well, undercutting Republicans’ assertions that...
U.S. President., Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama vowed Thursday the United States will remain the world’s pre-eminent military power even as the Pentagon scales back...
US President Barack Obama. PHOTO/Jim Young/Reuters President Barack Obama is putting his personal stamp on a rejiggered Pentagon strategy for absorbing hundreds of billions of dollars...
President Barack Obama on Wednesday will buck Republican opposition in a defiant display of executive power and name a new U.S. chief consumer watchdog. Outraged Republican...
US President Barack Obama. AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain President Barack Obama is pushing his economic message in Ohio, brandishing his presidential megaphone in a politically important...
Former President Jimmy Carter has some advice for Barack Obama as he gears up for the 2012 election: Don’t alienate voters with controversial positions. The Georgia...
US President Barack Obama With an eye on the 2012 campaign, President Barack Obama is wrapping up a Hawaiian vacation and planning to jump back into...
US President Barack Obama AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain The Obama White House probably watched the Republican primary season with some dismay as a series of candidates...
US President Barack Obama. AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain Leaving behind a year of bruising legislative battles, President Barack Obama enters his fourth year in office having...
U.S. President Barack Obama A majority of Latinos say they disapprove of how the Obama administration is handling deportations of illegal immigrants but still would back...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File As the United States enters the crucial election year, President Barack Obama and his Democratic party has a clear edge over...
U.S. President Barack Obama. AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will nominate Harvard economist Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell, an investment banker and...
US President Barack Obama and his daughter Malia make their way into the chapel for Christmas service at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN Source:...
U.S. President., Barack Obama On a political high, President Barack Obama capped a bruising year by securing a tax cut for millions of Americans, an achievement...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Christmas is only a couple of days away, and this week the Obama administration delivered a last-minute Christmas present to all...
U.S. President Barack Obama Bowing under intense pressure from members of their own party to end the politically damaging impasse over a payroll tax holiday, House...
U.S. President., Barack Obama President Barack Obama is using Americans’ money worries to pressure House Republicans to pass a short-term extension of payroll tax cuts. The...
U.S.President., Barack Obama. /AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain The House of Representatives Tuesday rejected legislation to extend a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for two months,...
U.S. President.,Barack Obama President Obama’s job-approval numbers remain poor, but at 49% they have rebounded to their strongest point since March, showing substantial improvements from young...
U.S.President., Barack Obama President Barack Obama, rebuffed by Congress on a yearlong extension of a Social Security payroll tax cut, said Saturday that it would be...
U.S. President Barack Obama AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain President Barack Obama is standing by his award of the Medal of Honor to a Marine in the...
Young adults trying to get traction in a tough economy are getting a welcome assist: the new federal health care law has markedly improved their access...
U.S. President., Barack Obama How can Barack Obama, as this new NBC/Marist poll has it, be beating Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney in South Carolina, of...
Eager to put the long and divisive Iraq war to rest, President Barack Obama declared Monday “those days are over” with the last American troops heading...
U.S. President., Barack Obama It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, with tree lights twinkling, sleigh bells ringing and President Barack Obama locked in his...
On issues from air pollution to contraception, President Barack Obama has broken sharply with liberal activists and come down on the side of business interests and...
Invoking the elimination of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama on Thursday forcefully rejected Republican criticism of his foreign policy as what amounts to a policy...
Herman Cain Oddly enough, the emergence of the first black president has coincidentally led to a resurgence of black Republicans. Following the election and swearing-in of...
President Barack Obama raised the threat of a veto Wednesday if Republicans try attaching controversial oil pipeline or other language to a bill renewing payroll tax...
Declaring the American middle class in jeopardy, President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined a populist economic vision that will drive his re-election bid, insisting the United...
President Barack Obama wants voters to get involved in the debate over extending the reduced payroll tax and he’s asking them to tell members of Congress...
The U.S. unemployment rate fell last month to its lowest level in more than two and a half years as employers stepped up hiring in response...
U.S. President., Barack Obama. PHOTO/AP President Obama won plaudits from AIDS groups that have criticized him in the past with his announcement on Thursday that he...
One trip, two money pitches. President Barack Obama wants more money in the pockets of U.S. workers, and in his campaign treasury. With both goals in...
Herman Cain Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain’s Iowa campaign chairman said Tuesday the candidate was reassessing his bid for his party’s nomination a day after an...
U.S. President.,Barack Obama President Barack Obama said Monday the United States stands ready to do its part to help Europe with its deepening debt crisis, even...
U.S. President., Barack Obama President Barack Obama is hosting European Union (E.U.) leaders for a summit Monday that is likely to focus on the European debt...
U.S.President Barack Obama shares a light moment with his daughters. President Barack Obama has pitched in to help small businesses get into the holiday shopping season....
President Barack Obama has telephoned 10 U.S. service members stationed abroad to wish them a happy Thanksgiving and praise their military service. Obama made the calls...
President Barack Obama is urging Americans facing tough economic times this Thanksgiving to believe in the nation’s ability to overcome its challenges. In a taped Thanksgiving...
President Barack Obama is nominating Marilyn Tavenner to succeed Donald M. Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Tavenner, who is the...
President Obama plunged into the heart of Republican primary land on Tuesday to deliver a direct challenge to Congress to act quickly to extend and expand...
U.S. President., Barack Obama It is a full year before the Presidential election, and it is looking more likely that Barack Obama will be re-elected in...
President Barack Obama’s close attention to the Asia-Pacific region signaled both a turn toward a part of the world experiencing solid growth and one away from...
Australian officials were working Sunday to trace how a top-secret dossier containing detailed plans for US President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Australia came to be...
U.S. President., Barack Obama A new Pew poll confirms a trend that’s been surfacing for a few weeks, with the constant changes in the GOP presidential...
When President Obama won Virginia in 2008, he was the first Democrat to do so since 1964. But with his approval rating now in the low-...
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) endorsed President Barack Obama’s re-election bid on Wednesday, saying it would deploy its formidable political machine earlier and on a...
President Barack Obama arrives in Australia. PHOTO/(ABC) President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday unveiled plans to deepen the U.S. military presence...
President Barack Obama turns from economic to security concerns in the Asia-Pacific region as he travels to Australia, finally making a long-delayed visit to the longtime...
Assuring military veterans that “America has your back,” first lady Michelle Obama (pictured), announced commitments from companies Thursday to hire 100,000 veterans and military spouses by...
In a shift in White House tactics on the cusp of an election year, President Barack Obama isn’t shying away these days from saying that many...
Herman Cain (pictured), prepared to meet with voters for the first time since sex harassment claims engulfed his upstart presidential bid, embarking on a tour of...
A conservative-leaning panel of US appellate judges on Tuesday upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law as constitutional, helping set up a Supreme Court fight. A...
A newly released NBC News/Wall Street Journal/theGrio.com poll finds that 49 percent of African-Americans feel the country is headed in the right direction, versus 38 percent...
(Reuters) – Allegations that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain sexually harassed women in the 1990s have begun to damage his bid for the White House, a...
After a long, somewhat contentious summer, in which the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) seemed to fall out of love with President Barack Obama over the black...
Hiring slowed in October as employers faced more uncertainty over future economic growth. The Labor Department says the economy added 80,000 jobs last month, the fewest...
President Barack Obama topped Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful people in 2011, as the U.S. leader’s clout rose after the deaths of al Qaeda...
A new national poll out from Quinnipiac University shows an improving picture for President Obama, who has boosted his standing on a number of fronts. His...
President Barack Obama. File PHOTO President Barack Obama’s new slogan, “we can’t wait”, appears to be more than just rhetoric as the president increasingly relies on...
At least that’s what the president’s advisers hope Americans who are frustrated by the economy and looking for someone to blame will remember when they vote...
The Republican-led House of Representatives passed a minor element of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill on Thursday as consensus remained elusive on other efforts to boost...
According to a new Quinnipiac University poll released early Wednesday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, now trails former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain (pictured), for the...
President Barack Obama will announce a plan to allow people holding two kinds of student loans to reduce their interest rates by consolidating their debts into...
Barack Obama, faced with 14 million unemployed workers and a jobless rate that won’t budge, is tackling the U.S. economic crisis by focusing on where it...
When President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he bluntly told the committee: “There will be times when nations – acting individually or in...
President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all...
The death of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi expands the growing string of security victories on President Barack Obama’s watch and reinforces his own style of dealing...
President Barack Obama teamed up with his popular and personable wife Wednesday on the final leg of a three-day bus trip, seeking to use her broad...
President Barack Obama sought to tap public discontent with big money elites Monday as he kicked off a campaign-style bus tour to blame Republican obstructionism for...
President Obama urged the nation Sunday to celebrate the dedication of the memorial to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. by continuing to press...
US President Barack Obama. Photo/ FILE President Barack Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to Africa to help hunt down the leaders of the notoriously...
Barack Obama once contemplated what it would be like to take his two daughters to the National Mall to see a monument to Martin Luther King...
The Obama Campaign and Democratic National Committee (DNC) raised a combined nearly US$70 million for the 2012 campaign from July through September, the groups reported today...
President Barack Obama said Tuesday he’s prepared to break his jobs bill into pieces and try to move it that way, hours before the measure faced...
This week could see a turning point for President Obama’s US$447 billion jobs bill, which gets its first big political test in the coming days —...
Herman Cain Herman Cain holds a 20 point lead over Mitt Romney in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, a new poll revealed yesterday....
U.S. President Barack Obama President Barack Obama launched an onslaught against banks and Republicans on Thursday for working to block financial reform, using a populist tone...
U.S. President., Barack Obama President Barack Obama has been railing against Congress to pass his jobs plan and casting Republicans as obstructionists who would rather score...
President Barack Obama says he has complete confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured), amid Republican accusations that Holder was aware months earlier than he’s acknowledged...
President Barack Obama says that many of the activities by the financial sector that precipitated the financial crisis in 2008 were not necessarily illegal and thus...
Senate Democrats are rewriting portions of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill to include a new 5 percent tax on income above US$1 million, a proposal that...
President Barack Obama is naming names. First he singled out House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. On Tuesday, House Republican leader Eric...
President Barack Obama demanded Monday that Congress vote on his jobs legislation package this month despite signs that the full measure faces stiff resistance. “I’m ready...
The Supreme Court has turned away another challenge to President Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president. The high court on Monday refused without comment to hear...
President Barack Obama, the man Republicans claimed was too young, too idealistic and too inexperienced to lead, is becoming a foreign policy authority the likes of...
Anwar al-Awlaki President Barack Obama declared the killing of a fiery American-born cleric in Yemen a “major blow” to al-Qaida’s most active affiliate, and vowed a...
The 2012 presidential campaign is well under way for Michelle Obama, and the first lady is promising to put herself into the election effort like never...
President Barack Obama took his newly combative message to the liberal West Coast on Sunday, aiming to re-energize faithful Democratic voters who have grown increasingly disenchanted...
President Obama has encountered stiff resistance from Republicans who make no secret of their desire to bounce him out of the White House next year, but...
President Barack Obama is giving states the flexibility to opt out of provisions of the No Child Left Behind law, a move he says is designed...
Employing in-your-face politics, President Barack Obama sold his jobs plan Thursday from the turf of the top Republicans on Capitol Hill, combatively calling them out by...
Troy Davis (pictured), the condemned inmate who convinced hundreds of thousands of people but not the justice system of his innocence, filed an eleventh-hour plea Wednesday...
Six Democratic mayors were joined by a Republican mayor in urging President Barack Obama and Congress to work together to create jobs and rebuild the nation’s...
In yesterday’s Rose Garden address, President Obama unveiled his new initiative to attack America’s long-term deficit, which has increased exponentially since the implementation of the Bush...
President Barack Obama, setting up another clash with Republicans, will propose Monday US$1.5 trillion in new taxes aimed primarily at the wealthy as part of a...
As the debate over jobs turns into the latest political tug-of-war, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri walks a careful but candid line. As chairman of the...
President Barack Obama is keeping up his appeal for public support of his US$447 billion proposal to boost jobs and consumer spending by urging Americans to...
President Barack Obama signs the American Invents Act, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011, at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo...
Pitching his jobs plan and his re-election, President Barack Obama attended two intimate $35,800-per-couple fundraisers Thursday, assuring donors that he will push Congress to pass his...
President Barack Obama is backing away from some deficit reduction proposals he considered during failed summer negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner even as he prepares...
NEW YORK (AP) - The surprising results portend a perilous national environment for Obama as he prepares to seek re-election next year...
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 70 percent of Obama's confirmed judicial nominees during his first two years were "non-traditional," or nominees who were not white males...
WASHINGTON (AP) - At the same time, the Democratic National Committee is backing up the effort with a new ad campaign in politically key states from...
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - 'God is our refuge and strength,' Obama intoned, 'a very present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear.'...
ATLANTA (AP) - President Barack Obama's jobs pitch is already playing well with blacks, who had grown plenty irked with him over what they perceived as...
President Barack Obama is doubling down on a payroll tax cut for workers and small businesses, hoping it will do more to revive the job market...
theGRIO REPORT - The biggest problem the president is facing is not whether people will switch sides. It's whether people will turnout for him again...
