President Barack Obama

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (L) listens as B. Todd Jones, U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, speaks during a press conference. (credit: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

Obama’s ATF Nominee Gets Senate Hearing

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will have a hearing before a Senate panel Tuesday, five months after he was nominated. But the confirmation […]

2013/06/11

Vice President Joe Biden comfort family members of Newtown school shooting victims while President Barack Obama speaks on gun control at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 17, 2013. (credit: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Biden: Gun Control ‘Fight Is Far From Over’

Six months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, some of the victims’ families are heading to Capitol Hill to remind lawmakers they are painfully waiting for action, while some of the president’s allies are asking him to do more without any new prospects of legislation to toughen gun laws.

2013/06/10

Obama: Opponents Of Immigration Overhaul Stoking Fears, Dividing Americans

President Barack Obama says there’s no reason Congress can’t pass an immigration overhaul by the end of summer.

2013/06/08

President Barack Obama welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping for their bilateral meeting at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California. (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Obama Raises Issues Of Cybersecurity, Economy In Summit

Opening a two-day summit, President Barack Obama drew attention to contentious economic and cybersecurity issues Friday night as he warmly received Chinese President Xi Jinping to a California desert estate for high-stakes talks.

2013/06/07

Chairman and Vice Chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) (L) and U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) (R), speak to members of the media about the National Security Agency (NSA) collecting phone records. According to reports, the NSA has collected phone data, under a provision of the Patriot Act, of Verizon customers in the U.S. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

U.S. Officials Long Denied Massive Data Trawling

Top officials of the Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly denied in recent years that the National Security Agency collected massive caches of phone and Internet data taken from millions of Americans.

2013/06/07

President Barack Obama walks with Los Angeles Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti upon his arrival at a landing zone in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Obama Promotes Affordable Care Act During Calif. Trip

President Barack Obama on Friday encouraged the uninsured or those paying high prices for health insurance to sign up for coverage under his health care law and urged opponents to stop wasting time continuing to fighting its implementation.

2013/06/07

President Barack Obama speaks after touring Mooresville Middle School in Mooresville, N.C., on June 6, 2013. (credit: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

President Making Personal Plea To Californians, Latinos To Sign Up For Obamacare Coverage

President Barack Obama is making a personal plea to Californians, Latinos and young people to sign up for coverage under the new health care law.

2013/06/07

Appearing before a Senate panel, Holder also generally declined comment about a long-running NSA program to collect phone record of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon as part of an anti-terrorist effort, and affirmed he will not prosecute journalists for doing their jobs. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Holder: NSA Will Not Prosecute Any Reporter For Doing Their Job

Attorney General Eric Holder denied Thursday that the Obama administration is killing suspected terrorists with drone strikes to avoid capturing them and sending them to the Guantanamo prison it wants to close.

2013/06/06

President Barack Obama spoke at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago on Wednesday. (credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

President Obama To Visit NC School

President Barack Obama wants to see the nation’s classrooms transformed into digital learning centers and he is ready to ask federal regulators to use billions of dollars to pay for the broadband and high-speed Internet connections that will be needed to make it happen.

2013/06/06

President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping (then Vice President) speak during meetings in the Oval Office of the White House on February 14, 2012. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Poll: Tensions Between Americans, Chinese On The Rise

As President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepare for two days of private meetings that will cover a variety of topics, citizens of both nations have expressed unfavorable opinions of one another, according to the latest Pew Research Center poll.

2013/06/05