President Obama

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama speaks at a World AIDS Day event Thursday and also helps light the National Christmas Tree.

At the AIDS ceremony, Obama will be joined, by video hookup, with former presidents Bill Clinton and George W

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Targeting Republicans in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail, President Barack Obama is heading to New Hampshire, a political battleground, to begin a year-end push to extend payroll tax cuts

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When Barack Obama arrives in Australia’s Northern Territory Thursday, the region’s chief minister Paul Henderson will greet and hand the American president a policy that insures him against a crocodile attack.

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BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Tightening ties with Asian nations as China's might rises, President Barack Obama prepared Thursday to be the first U.S. president to take part in a summit of East Asian nations

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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Heralding the end of one war and the drawdown of another, President Barack Obama observed Veterans Day on Friday by urging Americans to hire the thousands of servicemen and women coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan

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President Barack Obama is promoting new ways to help veterans find jobs in a tough economy while pressing Congress to approve tax credits for businesses to hire former members of the military.

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The White House has announced that President Obama, a well-known basketball afficionado, will attend a Veteran’s Day college game onboard the USS Carl Vinson — the aircraft carrier that buried Osama bin Laden at sea.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's campaign raised more than $70 million combined for his re-election and the Democratic party during the summer, an amount that gives him a clear advantage over his Republican rivals but is less than his initial fundraising effort.

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William M. Daley, President Obama’s chief of staff since early this year, has announced plans to step down in January of 2013.

“I made a commitment to the president through his re-election, which I’m confident he will do, and then my wife and I will return to Chicago,” he told Chicago’s NBC affiliate.

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At a Monday night fundraiser at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, President Obama’s speech was interrupted when some hooligan concerned citizen in attendance yelled that Mr. Obama was the “antichrist” and that “Jesus Christ is savior!” Well, it beats having a pair of shoes thrown at you.

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