President Barak Obama

Critics of standardized testing are pushing a handful of bills they say are aimed at reducing the state's reliance on the exams as graduation requirements. One bill would allow the state to continue administering MCAS tests, but would create a three-year moratorium on using the test as a graduation requirement...

President Obama will visit the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta tomorrow to get a briefing on the Ebola virus outbreak in western Africa.

The formal introduction of a bipartisan Senate Immigration bill is sparking intense debate on Capitol Hill and beyond, as lawmakers and groups on all sides digest the 844-page legislation to enact sweeping changes to the nation's immigration laws...

President Obama says we have to make the hard choices of cutting the cost of healthcare and reducing our deficit, but we can't harm our future in doing so.

President Barack Obama has been formally inaugurated for a second term.   The nation's first African American President was sworn-in by Chief Justice John Roberts in a closed ceremony at the White House.  The public inauguration occurs tomorrow at the U...