President Obama

MAUMEE, Ohio (AP) — President Barack Obama has told an Ohio campaign crowd that he's betting they won't lose heart or interest in the November election despite political stalemates. He says the outcome will determine the nation's economic future for the next 10 to 20 years...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Barack Obama surveys damage from raging wildfires and thanks first responders in Colorado on Friday, he also will be seeking to convince voters in one of the nation's most tightly contested political swing states that he is a compassionate leader who can command in a crisis...

DENVER (AP) — A bill to speed up the contracting of the next generation of air tankers is about to become law. President Barack Obama plans to sign the bill Wednesday at the White House. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet had urged the president sign the measure quickly...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama calls it "offensive" and "wrong" to claim his White House deliberately leaked classified information for political gain. The president says his administration has "zero tolerance" for the leaking of sensitive information...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says atrocities against peoples across the globe begin with daily ignorance and intolerance and that the world must not allow such "seeds of hate" to take root again. Obama spoke at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, his first such appearance as president...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama raised $45 million for his re-election campaign, the Democratic Party and other campaign funds in February, bringing his total to about $300 million for this election cycle. Obama announced his monthly total on Monday on Twitter...

Congress has approved a measure extending the payroll tax cut. President Obama is expected to sign it upon his return to Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are calling on President Barack Obama to explain potential cuts of as much as 80 percent in the U.S. nuclear force. The lawmakers, led by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon, sent a letter to Obama questioning the wisdom of reducing deployed strategic warheads as other nations increase their stockpiles and Iran pursues a disput

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama wants community colleges and businesses to work together to train 2 million workers in high-growth industries. On Monday, he will seek $8 billion to create a fund to encourage such partnerships...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Friday he's found a solution to a birth-control uproar that will protect religious liberty but also ensure that women have access to free contraception, as he rushed to defuse an election-year issue that threatened to overtake his administration...