Barack Obama

President Barack Obama will be spending some of his summer vacation with Hilary Rodham Clinton.

President Barack Obama is trumpeting major progress by his administration toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions, even though some of the most ambitious steps Obama has pledged remain in limbo. One year ago, Obama unveiled sweeping plans to tackle climate change and cut U...

The White House will not ban selfies with President Obama. White House spokesman Jay Carney put an end to speculation about a smart-phone selfies ban after Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz captured a selfie with the President last week...

Declaring 2014 a "year of action" as he unveiled a series of relatively meager executive actions, President Barack Obama vowed in his State of the Union address Tuesday night to sidestep Congress "whenever and wherever" he can in order to push through his agenda.

President Barack Obama says this is the moment to pass immigration reform. Obama says now that the partial government shutdown is over, Republicans and Democrats should be able to work together to fix what he called a "broken immigration system...

President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande say they are committed to a political solution in Syria even as they prepare for potential military strikes.

President Barack Obama's decision to seek congressional authorization for a military strike on Syria has sparked calls for the French parliament to get the same privilege.

Gov. Deval Patrick says the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's ``I Have a Dream'' speech is a time to reflect on the progress that has been made in bridging the nation's racial divide, but also on the challenges that still lie ahead...

President Barack Obama says that when it comes to Washington's lack of action on big issues, "the buck stops with me." But Obama also criticizes Republicans for focusing on issues that would be bad for the economy, like shutting down the government in order to defund "Obamacare" or not raising the nation's borrowing limit...

President Barack Obama will hold a White House news conference Friday before jetting off on his August vacation.