2 days ago
Last year, President Obama spoke to graduates at Barnard College in New York.
4 days ago
Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to...
7 days ago
A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes.
9 days ago
Newly released documents say the man suspected of sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others appeared to try to evade authorities just days before his arrest.
10 days ago
If Obama were to nominate people to fill the vacancies on the federal courts in Texas without input from or the approval of the Texas senators, those nominees would go nowhere, and Cornyn knows it.
10 days ago
Republicans in the House of Representatives and President Barack Obama agree in general on what to do with student loan interest rates: Let them vary with the market.
11 days ago
In Obama's first week in office, he signed an executive order to close Guantanamo, but Congress has used its budgetary power to block detainees from being moved to the U.S.
18 days ago
Last month, President Obama, in calling again for Guantanamo's closing, said it is an unsustainable situation, and he referred to prisoners being kept "in a no-man's land in perpetuity.
22 days ago
"Mr. Obama said he wasn't going after our guns.
23 days ago
"With Mike Froman's background and great depth and breadth of knowledge on trade matters, President Obama could not have made a better choice for our next U.S. Trade Representative," Bill Reinsch,...
23 days ago
The first time James Everett Dutshcke's name came up in court regarding ricin-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and others, he wasn't the man charged in the case.
23 days ago
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pressed for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison as President Barack Obama mulls a renewed push before a reluctant U.S. Congress.
23 days ago
A White House official says President Barack Obama will name a longtime fundraiser to run the Commerce Department and a top economic adviser as the next U.S. Trade Representative.
24 days ago
The White House said Wednesday that despite President Barack Obama's pledge to do what he can to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, a moratorium on sending cleared detainees back to...
24 days ago
A new court document says that an Idaho man charged with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama by shooting at the White House practiced with his weapon for six months and may have been...
24 days ago
The Guantanamo Bay hunger strike is apparently still on despite President Barack Obama's renewed vow on closing the prison on the U.S. base in Cuba.
24 days ago
When poison-laced letters were sent to President Barack Obama and two other officials, it didn't take long to track down a suspect based on a phrase in one of the letters often used by a...
24 days ago
Authorities on Tuesday captured the father-in-law of the powerful chief of the Sinaloa Cartel, chalking up a victory against crime in a week in which President Barack Obama is to travel to Mexico.
68 days ago
The White House says the leaders of four African nations will meet with President Barack Obama later this month at the White House.
68 days ago
In response to the budget cuts that took effect March 1, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered a re-evaluation of the underpinnings of the defense strategy that President Barack Obama...
68 days ago
Seeking to fill yet another second-term Cabinet vacancy, President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Thomas Perez, an assistant attorney general, to be the next secretary of labor, the White...
68 days ago
A person familiar with White House deliberations says President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Justice Department official Thomas Perez to head the Labor Department.
69 days ago
House Speaker John Boehner says he "absolutely" trusts President Barack Obama - not that they don't have their differences.
70 days ago
Obama can say he relates to young people who graduate not only to meet their futures, but also their creditors.
71 days ago
The throng was more excited about South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who vowed, "As long as I'm governor of South Carolina, we will not expand Medicaid on President Obama's watch."
