U.S. President Barack Obama has signed up power brokers in Congress for strikes on Syria but, in an era of insurgent politics haunted by Iraq, there...
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the media in the Cabinet Room of the White House, September 3, 2013, before a meeting with leaders of Congress to...
U.S. President Barack Obama is preparing for the possibility of launching unilateral American military action against Syria within days, White House aides say. Despite roadblocks in...
Image merge of U.S. President Barack Obama and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./Courtesy of BET U.S. President Barack Obama will lead his nation in...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama has issued a formal endorsement of Democrat Cory Booker in New Jersey’s special U.S. Senate race. In...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Thursday that the United States is cancelling joint military exercises with Egypt next...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l), greets Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, Monday, June 18, 2012. PHOTO/Alexei Nikolsky/RIA-Novosti,Presidential Press Service...
A bipartisan bill that would lower the costs of borrowing for millions of students is awaiting President Barack Obama’s signature. The House on Wednesday gave final...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Drawing renewed attention to the economy, President Barack Obama will return this week to an Illinois college where he once spelled...
U.S. President Barack Obama President Barack Obama has little to show so far for a second term stifled by political inertia at home and foreign crises...
From left to right, President Macky Sall of Senegal, President Joyce Banda of Malawi, U.S. President Barack Obama, President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, and...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a previous engagement hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Tuesday with black...
American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court says a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced until Congress comes up...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l), greets Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, Monday, June 18, 2012. PHOTO/Alexei Nikolsky/RIA-Novosti,Presidential Press Service...
Moved by the Assad regime’s rapid advance, the Obama administration could decide this week to approve lethal aid for the beleaguered Syrian rebels and will weigh...
U.S. President Barack Obama and his judicial nominees. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP Issuing a forceful challenge to Senate Republicans, President Barack Obama nominated three judges to the influential...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The Secret Service revealed Thursday, that a suspicious letter similar to the ones sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has...
U.S. President Barack Obama signing transportation bill that would also prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling. July 6, 2012. PHOTO/Getty Images The government’s subsidized...
Absurd as it may be, America’s economy could be in its current ‘malaise’ simply because the President is black. And more than anything else, it may...
President Barack Obama intends to nominate Rep. Melvin Watt (pictured), to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government regulator that oversees lending giants Fannie Mae...
The first draft was as mind-numbing and complex as tax forms. Now the Obama administration is unveiling a simplified application for health insurance benefits under the...
American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images African Americans voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the White turnout...
Anthony Foxx, the mayor of Charlotte, NC., addresses the Democratic National Convention, Sept. 4, 2012. PHOTO/J. Scott Applewhite/AP U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate...
U.S. President Obama waves as he leaves the White House. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama is not injured and there have not been explosions at the White...
A younger Barack Obama with his grandmother during his first trip to Africa to visit the family of his father, Barack Obama, Sr. PHOTO/Maya Soetoro-Ng The...
U.S. President Barack Obama with Vice President Joseph Biden and relatives of gun violence victims. PHOTO/Mark Wilson/Getty Images Blocked by Congress from expanding gun sale background...
U.S. President Obama pauses as he remarks on Boston bombings, April 15, 2013. PHOTO/Mark Wilson/Getty Images The U.S. Secret Service has intercepted a letter addressed to...
U.S. President Barack Obama – and rising gasoline prices U.S. President Barack Obama is pushing Congress to authorize more federally funded research into clean energy technologies...
U.S. President Barack Obama greets Republican leaders, Speaker John Boehner (c) and Eric Cantor (r). PHOTO/ Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images President Barack Obama is conceding “we’re probably...
U.S. President Barack Obama President Barack Obama’s approval ratings are at their highest since 2009, and and Americans prefer his economic message to that of his...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama says 2013 can be a year of solid economic growth, but only if Washington gets out of the...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama could reveal the details of how the country will address gun violence as early as Wednesday, while New...
U.S. President Obama with first lady Michelle Obama, during the inauguration ceremony held on January 20, 2009. PHOTO/Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Barack Obama is putting a...
U.S. President Obama on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press” that aired on Dec. 30 2012 U.S. President Barack Obama has warned squabbling lawmakers that they must reach...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) shakes hands with Speaker of the House John Boehner (l) during a meeting with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) shakes hands with Speaker of the House John Boehner (l) during a meeting with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at an interfaith vigil for the shooting victims from Sandy Hook Elementary School on Sunday Dec. 16 2012 at Newtown High...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at an interfaith vigil for the shooting victims from Sandy Hook Elementary School on Sunday Dec. 16 2012 at Newtown High...
U.S. President Obama emotional as he talks about the Connecticut school shooting. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/AP Air Force One touched down at Bradley Airport in Windsor Locks around...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations., Susan Rice. PHOTO/File Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration to be the next secretary of state after the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) shakes hands with Speaker of the House John Boehner (l) during a meeting with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File A month after the bitterly fought election, President Barack Obama has his highest approval ratings since the killing of Osama bin...
Speaker John Boehner and U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images President Barack Obama and Republicans crept closer to negotiations on avoiding a recession-threatening package of...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) shakes hands with Speaker of the House John Boehner (l) during a meeting with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters)- President Barack Obama, reapplying his re-election campaign theme of protecting the middle class, heads to Pennsylvania on Friday suggesting that...
President Obama intends to hold a series of events aimed at building support for his approach to avoid across-the-board tax increases. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama is...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) shakes hands with Speaker of the House John Boehner (l) during a meeting with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the...
Mitt Romney was never, really, supposed to be their nominee. In fact, because he had, as governor of Massachusetts, passed universal healthcare – the template used...
Speaker John Boehner and U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images (Reuters) – A senior Republican senator voiced confidence on Sunday that U.S. lawmakers would forge...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama won re-election to a second term in the White House on Tuesday, television networks projected, beating...
African American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images (Reuters) – After a long and bitter White House campaign, Americans began casting their votes on Tuesday with polls showing...
My Ballot Paper for November 6, 2012 On a cold evening here in Princeton, New Jersey – an evening where many people in America’s North East...
By Ryan Elcock If you have been following the US 2012 election, you will agree that this one has been the most contentious since the Bush-Gore...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File With just one day remaining in the 2012 race for president, the polling picture...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney engaged in a frenzied cross-country blitz...
If Obama had not turned in such a lackadaisical performance at the first Presidential Debate against Mitt Romney this early October, the incumbent president would not...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama put campaign battleground travel on hold to tour the ravaged New...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is poised to eke out a victory in the race for...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Election 2012, 13 days until the election day, President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney in...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – In today’s highly polarized political environment it is somewhat surprising to find...
A few hours before President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney met in New York on October 16, 2012 for their second Presidential Debate, a...
U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama still appears to have the upper hand in the state-by-state...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney With one debate left, President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney are retreating from the...
Watching American pundits on television comment about politics is like observing teenagers. From the vantage point of having gone through THAT phase, one knows that hormones...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney As President Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney gear up for the season’s second...
By Ryan Elcock Like many of you, I was tuned into the debate between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama and I must say; Romney came...
Time check: 11:41 p.m. The Vice Presidential Debate ended more than 45 minutes ago – and on all the television networks, pundits are dissecting things; checking...
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (l) and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan pull up a couple of chairs...
Updated October 10, 2012 – 12:43 p.m. The polls are in. Angst amongst the Democrats is up and spreading. Following his disastrous performance at the first...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Mitt Romney got a poll boost from his strong debate performance against President Barack Obama...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP Five weeks to U.S. Election Day, President Barack Obama is within reach of the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama warned Democrats about becoming too complacent with six weeks left before...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Dozens of volunteers armed with clipboards and voter registration forms gather at President Barack...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney 53%-44% in Florida, 53%-43% in Ohio and 54%-42%...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were arguing over how to address U.S. challenges in the Middle East and...
As your humble correspondents, my colleagues and I know that you expect us to report the facts, the truth and just about enough information so you...
U.S. President Barack Obama on the campaign trail earlier this year. PHOTO/File In a presidential race seemingly frozen in place for months, the advantage has shifted...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP Fresh signs of a national housing rebound and growing support in public opinion polls...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama has emerged from the conventions of both political parties with a...
Richard Neustadt’s classic ‘Presidential Power’ is, perhaps, the leading authority on the actual role of the American president. At its core, Neustadt argues, the presidency is...
President Barack Obama first lady Michelle Obama, and members of the White House staff pause during a moment of silence to mark the 11th anniversary of...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, picking up support following the Democratic National Convention, widened...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney agree on this much: The 2012 election is...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) joins former President Bill Clinton, after nominating speech. PHOTO/J. Scott Applewhite/AP President Barack Obama goes before the Democratic National Convention and...
In June this year, I made the sanguine prediction that Obama would keep his job as America’s president for a second term. This prognosis was based...
U.S. President Barack Obama looks at cars at the DC Auto Show at the Convention Center, January 31, 2012 on Washington, DC. PHOTO/Olivier Douliery/UPI America’s big...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Democrats sought to push foreign policy, one of President Barack Obama’s strengths, to the...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour A federal judge in Ohio on Friday granted a request from President Barack Obama’s campaign to give all voters...
U.S. President Obama delivers a statement on storm Isaac, August 28, 2012. PHOTO/Mandel Ngan/AFP President Barack Obama says residents of the Gulf Coast should listen to...
President Obama talks with students after he called on Congress to stop interest rates on student loans on June 21, 2012. PHOTO/Susan Walsh/AP As college students...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama said Mitt Romney has locked himself into “extreme positions” on economic...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (PRNewswire) — With many citing the economy as the most important issue for the...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to reporters at the White House, Aug 20, 2012. PHOTO/Reuters President Barack Obama said Monday the U.S. would reconsider its opposition...
A group of black journalists says it is disappointed in the lack of ethnic diversity among the people chosen to moderate presidential debates. The National Association...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP (Reuters) – Twice as many business executives around the world say the global economy...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama can claim victory over Mitt Romney in the digital arena at...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama’s campaign is already targeting Paul Ryan in a new online video,...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama’s campaign says Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP Two states that Barack Obama won in 2008 – after going for former...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama holds an advantage over Republican Mitt Romney in three swing...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP Former President Bill Clinton will have a marquee role in this summer’s Democratic...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP (Reuters) – Sustained attacks by President Barack Obama’s campaign on Republican rival Mitt...
U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates (l), next to Mayor of Aurora Steve Hogan (2nd R), after arriving at Buckley...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama again steps into the role of consoler-in-chief during a visit Sunday with distraught families of those gunned down...
President Barack Obama at Prime Osborn Convention Center on July 19, 2012 in Jacksonville, Florida. PHOTO/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images President Barack Obama is warning Florida retirees that...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama is trying to keep the pressure on rival Mitt Romney,...
Christopher Smith, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, looks at stem cell samples through an inverted microscope in a lab at the Johns Hopkins University. PHOTO/Patrick...
African American voters. PHOTO/Lynne Sladky/AP (Reuters) – High voter turnout among African Americans helped get President Barack Obama elected in 2008 but a black rights group...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is preparing to tell voters in the crucial industrial state...
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden addresses the NAACP annual convention, Thursday, July 12, 2012. PHOTO/Pat Sullivan/AP President Barack Obama has asked The National Association for the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s slim lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney in...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File Seeking an election-year fight over taxes, President Barack Obama is hitting the road...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is launching a push to extend tax cuts for the middle class, starting with an address from the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File For the first time since April, President Obama has opened up a sustained...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File In the presidential battleground with the biggest prize, Democrat Barack Obama is focused...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File In promoting the health care law, President Barack Obama is repeating his persistent...
President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File If Barack Obama risked his presidency on passing his health-care reform law, persevering in the face of a groundswell of opposition and...
African American graduates. PHOTO/File Congress ended months of partisan bickering on Friday by passing and sending to President Barack Obama a comprehensive extension of highway and...
Borrowers hoping to consolidate their student loans through a special program created by President Barack Obama last year have just until Saturday to apply. To much...
Pro-Obamacare demostrators lobbying outside the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld President Barack Obama’s health-care law, which requires uninsured Americans...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is carving out a clear lead in swing...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Obama leads 47 percent to 44 percent over Mitt Romney in an...
U.S. President Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s not-so-secret counterterrorism fight against al-Qaida in Yemen and Somalia, the killing...
U.S. President Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is winning the opening round in the battle over immigration, according...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate., Mitt Romney There’s not much President Barack Obama can do to boost the economy in the next...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as...
A growing chorus of once-confident Democrats now say President Barack Obama could lose the November election. The hand-wringing reflects real worries among Democrats about Obama’s ability...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney(r). PHOTO/File A new North Carolina poll conducted by the automated pollster (and Democratic affiliated) Public...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s campaign is launching a new ad against Republican challenger Mitt Romney,...
President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will talk about the nation’s economic woes in remarks at the White House Friday. The White House says President...
U.S. President Barack Obama reaches out to supporters on June 13, 2011 in Miami, Florida. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have raised a...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l), and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney(r). PHOTO/File A new survey indicates President Barack Obama with a 12-point lead over Republican challenger...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to a supporter. PHOTO/J. Scott Applewhite/AP When President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign unveiled its new slogan, some conservative critics were quick...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File To see where the presidential candidates stand on taxing the rich, just look...
Businessman Donald Trump shakes hands with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Ronmey. Romney’s wife Ann looks on. PHOTO/Steve Marcus The day after hosting a fundraiser for Mitt...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s campaign is opening a new critique of Mitt Romney, focusing...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File A new poll released Tuesday shows President Barack Obama with a wide lead...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney President Barack Obama on Thursday continued his assault on Mitt Romney’s business experience, saying the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president’s historic,...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is keeping up its effort to paint Mitt Romney...
In early May 2012, President Barack Obama came out and gave us a monster of a personal opinion: He said he was now, after evolving, in...
US President Barack Obama declared Sunday that the world was behind his strategy to end the war in Afghanistan, as more than 50 leaders gathered to...
President Obama opens G8 summit at Camp David. PHOTO/BBC The United States and other members of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrial nations agree that Europe’s...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney President Barack Obama holds a cash advantage of more than 2-to-1 over Republican challenger Mitt...
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron (l) speaks with U.S. President Barack Obama during a round table meeting at the G8 summit in Deauville May 27, 2011....
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner dug in Wednesday on their already hardened positions on tax increases versus spending...
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 is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that...
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama extended his lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to 7 percentage points because of increased support from independent voters and some...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The Obama administration saw its first monthly budget surplus in April, with the federal government recording US$58 billion, according to figures...
President Barack Obama arrives for a campaign rally at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., Saturday, May 5, 2012. PHOTO/Steve Helber/AP President Barack Obama plunged into...
U.S. President Barack Obama The economy isn’t cooperating with President Barack Obama’s re-election schedule. For the third year in a row, an early spurt of growth...
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 Obama steps off Air Force One at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai. PHOTO/Doug Mills/The New York Times...
President Barack Obama gave a steely defense of his handling of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and his use of it to burnish his...
Vice President Joe Biden delivered a harsh attack Thursday on Mitt Romney’s foreign policy views, arguing that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is rooted in a...
Former Republican National Committee Chair., Michael Steele. PHOTO/File One thing is certain this election year: President Barack Obama will win African American voters by a colossal...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at Florida Atlantic University, April 10, 2012. PHOTO/Marc Serota/Getty Images Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney collected US$12.6 million...
U.S. President Barack Obama – and rising gasoline prices Under pressure to take action on rising gasoline prices, President Barack Obama wants Congress to strengthen federal...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at Florida Atlantic University, April 10, 2012. PHOTO/Marc Serota/Getty Images (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and his family paid more than US$160,000 in federal taxes last year on earnings of US$789,674, the White...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at Florida Atlantic University, April 10, 2012. PHOTO/Marc Serota/Getty Images For all the turmoil of the long primary...
Seventeen year-old Trayvon Martin. PHOTO/Martin Family/AP The neighborhood watch volunteer who shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was arrested and charged with second-degree murder Wednesday after months of...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Picking an election-year fight with Republicans, President Barack Obama is urging Congress to boost taxes on millionaires, traveling to Florida to...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will sign the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act on Thursday. The JOBS legislation includes key initiatives that Obama...
U.S.President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is ready to sign legislation prohibiting members of Congress, the president and thousands of other federal workers from engaging...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File In an election-year pitch to middle-class voters, President Barack Obama is denouncing a House Republican budget plan as a “Trojan horse,”...
U.S. President Barack Obama facing rising gas prices. PHOTO/AP U.S. President Barack Obama is reportedly set to announce in Oklahoma this week that he’s expediting the...
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...
President Barack Obama raised US$45 million for his re-election campaign, the Democratic Party and other campaign funds in February, bringing his total to about US$300 million...
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/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/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. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is aiming mortgage relief at members of the military as well as homeowners with government-insured loans, the administration’s...
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...
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...
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....
