President Obama

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has claimed a second term from an incredibly divided electorate in trying economic times. He is bracing for daunting challenges and progress that comes only in fits and starts. He told supporters at a victory rally early Wednesday morning that "the best is yet to come...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The race for the White House is rumbling into its final four weeks with Republican Mitt Romney seeking stature on foreign affairs and President Barack Obama raising political cash by the millions. Negative ads, charges of dishonesty and dwindling time are all setting the tone...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday will challenge the world to confront the root causes of rage exploding across the Muslim world, calling it a defining choice "between the forces that would drive us apart and the hopes we hold in common." ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the U.S. is safer and its people resilient on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Obama and first lady Michelle Obama laid a wreath at the Pentagon, one of several official observances marking the suicide hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama's fall mission comes down to this: Remind voters why they chose him in the first place, hope the economy doesn't get worse and paint Mitt Romney as an unacceptable alternative. Obama departs his Charlotte convention with a re-election path that is far from certain...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — To a nation short on job security, President Barack Obama has his night to protect his own. Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday will be about promises he says he kept, and the hope he wants to stir once more...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will sign a measure Monday aimed at helping veterans before heading to Connecticut to campaign for his re-election. The president will sign a law called the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012...

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — President Barack Obama says he told the families of the victims of Friday's movie theater massacre that "all of America and much of the world is thinking about them." Obama met with the family members Sunday at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, which treated 23 of the people injured in the mass shooting; 10 remain there, seven hurt critically... Read Mor

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's most widespread drought in decades is on President Barack Obama's agenda Wednesday. The president will meet with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to discuss the government's response to the drought that's covering more than half of the continental U...

POLAND, Ohio (AP) — President Barack Obama says private sector job growth is a "step in the right direction," but the economy must grow faster following a modest monthly job report. Obama spoke on the second day of a bus tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania as the government reported that only 80,000 jobs were created in June...