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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AFP) – US President Barack Obama offered a direct rebuttal Wednesday of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy critique ... we have labored under the dark cloud of war. Now, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon, ...  

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Here’s a video of Barack Obama shooting some impromptu three-pointers at an outdoor court, but it doesn’t go so well; he misses four in a row before finally sinking the fifth one, although that’s still 20% from behind the arc, which would tie him with Andrew Bynum for 295th in the NBA this season. In terms of presidential three-point-percentages throughout history, those aren’t quite Rutherford “B-ig Shot” Hayes numbers, but they’re still...  

Speaking ahead of a global nuclear security summit in Seoul, Obama held out the prospect of new cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal as he sought to rally world leaders for additional concrete steps against the threat of nuclear terrorism. "But even as we have ...  

CHICAGO—U.S. President Barack Obama promised the war in Afghanistan will end within two years as he met Sunday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, before the start of a NATO summit during which the U.S. and its allies will work to solidify a strategy for ...  

In his most partisan remarks since J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) disclosed a more than $2 billion loss, President Barack Obama said Republicans and "an army" of financial lobbyists were trying to undo reforms meant to prevent big banks from harming taxpayers.  

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says the big trading loss at JPMorgan Chase shows the need for Congress to finally put in place banking rules he signed into law two years ago. He also is calling on lawmakers to stop trying to weaken the regulations.  

Chicago (CNN)-- More work must be done before NATO troops pull out of Afghanistan, U.S. President Barack Obama said as he met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Sunday. "There will be great challenges ahead. The loss of life continues in Afghanistan.  

Florida senator Marco Rubio slammed President Barack Obama in a South Carolina speech delivered last night to a large gathering of Republicans. “For all the policy disagreements that we may have with the president, it is hard to understate how much he ...  

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-- President Barack Obama declared Wednesday the world has a "new feeling about America" and more respect for its leadership, weaving re-election themes into a commencement speech to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy.  

President Barack Obama’s embrace of same-sex marriage was a major moment for gay-rights advocates — historic, emotional, a cause for celebration and more praise for an administration with a strong record on these issues. But they’re already starting ...  

PRESIDENT Obama has been dealt an embarrassing blow by his own party members, with two out of five Democratic primary voters in Arkansas and Kentucky failing to back him as their presidential candidate. In Kentucky, 42 per cent of voters chose "uncommitted ...  

Talking about his new movie, 'Killing Them Softly', Brad Pitt appears to be treading very carefully, so as not to ruin the cosy relationship that he has with the U.S. president Barack Obama. It's not long since Brad Pitt and his partner Angelina Jolie were ...  

The issue of President Barack Obama's place of birth, which had largely faded from national view, is flaring up in Arizona after its secretary of state said Obama might not be on the November ballot there if Hawaii doesn't verify it has his birth certificate.  

Shugaba Barack Obama da sakatare janar na kungiyar NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, sun bude taron kolin kungiyar kawancen tsaron jiya lahadi a birnin Chicago, tare da fadin cewa shugabannin duniya zasu tsara matakai na gaba da za a dauka a Afghanistan a ...  

President Barack Obama and NATO allies declared Sunday that the end of the long and unpopular Afghanistan war is in sight even as they struggled to hold their fighting force together in the face of dwindling patience and shaky unity. From his hometown and ...  

May 21, 2012 (WASHINGTON) -- Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker is backing off comments he made earlier Sunday, when he criticized President Barack Obama's re-election campaign for its attacks on Bain Capital, the private equity firm once run by Republican ...  

President Barack Obama has pulled into a virtual tie with presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in traditionally conservative Tennessee, according to a new Vanderbilt University poll. The poll also found that Tennesseans weren't thrilled with the ...  

US President Barack Obama opened a NATO summit on Sunday saying the world backed his plan to end war in Afghanistan, as President Hamid Karzai pledged his bloodied state would no longer be a ‘burden’. Leaders of more than 50 nations stood in solemn ...  

BARACK Obama has snubbed Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari despite inviting him to a NATO summit in Chicago, as a bitter dispute rages over supply routes that could disrupt the planned US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The US President refused to ...  

CHICAGO — President Barack Obama flew into Chicago grimly set on ending the war in Afghanistan — and left his hometown by gleefully starting a new one over Bain Capital with Mitt Romney. If Obama had any reticence about diving into an election-year ...  

President Barack Obama doesn't often dwell on similarities to his predecessor, George W. Bush, but here's one thing they have in common: Mr. Obama's re-election challenge this year is starting to look an awful lot like the one Mr. Bush faced in 2004.  

"It's about the ears! That's the thing. You know, people see the ears, and Barack and I both have the ears," he said, exaggeratedly pulling one ear out to the side. "So I'm the most natural choice." Smith, 43, related that he joked to Obama that while he ...  

President Barack Obama will address the 2012 graduating class of Joplin High School Monday night at the school's commencement ceremony. The address comes almost one year after severe tornadoes devastated the Missouri town. Obama visited Joplin on May 29 ...  

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Mitt Romney said Thursday that he rejected the proposal presented to a GOP super-PAC that intended to tie President Barack Obama to incendiary comments by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. -- a risky approach that ...  

Mitt Romney is conniving. Mitt Romney is heartless. Mitt Romney is a “vampire.” That’s the angle that President Barack Obama is using in his campaign for re-election against Romney, the presumed Republican candidate. Across the country, the president ...  

Speaking hours after North Carolina became the 30th state in the country to explicitly outlaw same-sex marriage, Mr Obama told a specially-convened interview that “personally” he supported them. “It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I ...  

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has eased investment sanctions on Myanmar and named the first US ambassador to the country in 22 years, seeking to reward an easing of "iron fist" rule. But Mr Obama, seeking maximum leverage on Myanmar's nominally civilian ...  

He had turned 18 a few weeks earlier. The afro he started at Punahou School had grown a bit fuller, but was under control. He was Barry Obama, freshman, from Honolulu. The name, along with those of his two new roommates, was typed on the index card that ...  

May 21, 2012 (NEW YORK) -- Add Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker to the long list of political stand-ins for both President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney who've veered wildly off message in a presidential contest notable for its attention-grabbing gaffes.  

Barack Obama's opponent four years ago was a Republican who repressed his moderate and liberal instincts, who insisted he was a conservative, who seemed to be suffering from a political identity crisis, who had a sterling resume but a halting campaign style.  

Much is being made this morning of President Barack Obama's weak showings in the Kentucky and Arkansas primaries as a sign of a depressed base, especially on the heels of the West Virginia vote in which Obama lost 40 percent of the primary vote to an ...  

After early morning talks on the economy with U.S. President Barack Obama while both leaders worked out at the gym, Cameron said he detected a "growing sense of urgency that action needs to be taken" on the euro zone crisis. "We are addressing here the two ...  

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told Kentucky Republicans on Saturday that President Barack Obama was "posing and preening" instead of working to resolve pressing issues facing the country. "He is the most ill-prepared person to assume ...  

By ANNE GEARAN and JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) - President Barack Obama and other leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations expressed hope Saturday that Greece will remain in the eurozone as they huddled for a shirt-sleeves ...  

CAMP DAVID, Md. -- President Barack Obama and leaders of other major industrial powers stepped outside discussions of European economic woes and Afghanistan that will dominate a long weekend of summitry for a look Friday at options to solidify world ...  

PHOENIX (AP) — Controversy over President Barack Obama's eligibility to be president flared anew Friday as Democrats criticized a Republican state official's request that Hawaii officials confirm they have Obama's birth certificate. Bennett, an elected ...  

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Moving quickly to stem a controversy, President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated an expert on nuclear waste to lead the federal agency that regulates the nation's nuclear power plants. Allison Macfarlane ...  

This story comes from the Yahoo! Contributor Network, where individuals publish their unique perspectives on some of the world’s most popular websites. He also mentioned that he inherited a $1 trillion debt from his favorite scapegoat, George Bush, and ...  

May 18, 2012 (GARY, Ind.) -- Barack Obama was the first Democrat in 44 years to win Indiana in the 2008 presidential race, but the state is hardly a lock for him again. Even Democrats see the current political environment in this conservative-leaning state ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew the presidential endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, saying he wasn't ready "to throw my weight behind someone" at this time. The former chairman of the ...  

On his home turf, President Barack Obama will find his leverage tested at two summits beginning Friday. Europe's economic mess remains its own problem to fix even as it threatens the U.S. recovery and Obama's re-election bid. And the world is hardly ...  

Barack Obama has led tributes to late disco legend Donna Summer, who died yesterday morning (17.05.12) aged 63 after battling cancer. Barack Obama has led tributes to late disco legend Donna Summer. The US president said the music industry has lost a ...  

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A group of black pastors gathered in Memphis to call for President Barack Obama to rescind his view that the gay marriages are a civil right that should be protected. Some members of the black clergy have taken offense to the fact ...  

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama hosts world leaders this weekend at a pair of summits that represent the first test of how political upheavals among the world's major economies stand to influence global policies on issues ranging from the Afghanistan ...  

A Republican Congressional candidate says he believes President Barack Obama was a Muslim before he became a Christian. "That is his background, that is his culture," former state Sen. Sam Aenestad said. "If you go read his books, if you look on the ...  

But not in Joplin, Missouri, where President Barack Obama's commencement address on Monday will come one year after the deadliest tornado in the United States in six decades killed 161 people. "I'm pretty sure we will remember the tornado more than Obama's ...  

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama urged Europe on Monday to strengthen its defenses against financial market turmoil and recapitalize its banks as part of a four-pronged strategy for tackling the euro zone crisis. European leaders have shown ...  

Obama is touted as a post-racial statesman who sees beyond the narrow issue of white versus black. The Obama of his autobiography is, to the contrary, obsessed with race: Almost all of Dreams is about race and race conflict. Obama’s early life is marked ...  

Five-year-old Jacob Philadelphia touches the president's hair. Barack Obama bends forward in a very cool way, making a perfect L-shape of his besuited form, while Jacob thoughtfully feels his head. In 2009 – the tale of this photograph goes – Jacob's ...  

BARACK Obama has gained a clear lead over Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney in a new one-on-one opinion poll, as voters view the US economy in a more positive light. A Fox News poll released yesterday gave the Democrat President a 46 per cent ...  

HONOLULU—The state of Hawaii has verified President Barack Obama's birth records to Arizona's elections chief after a nearly three-month back and forth that Arizona officials said could have ended without the incumbent's name on its November ballot.  

President Barack Obama played hometown host in a scripted summit at the highly fortified McCormick Place, where the real action was at sideline talks on Afghanistan-related issues. The NATO delegates were insulated from any exposure to the melee ...  

"Our plan is to do exactly what John McCain would not let us do: Show the world how Barack Obama's opinions of America and the world were formed," the proposal says, according to the Times. "And why the influence of that misguided mentor and our ...  

This was President Barack Obama’s weakest demographic in 2008. It could spell trouble for him in a close election, where white seniors are concentrated in swing states like Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa and Nevada. Middle-class white seniors ...  

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will press European leaders to ease up on fiscal austerity and focus on economic growth at a summit on Saturday that will discuss ways to stem turmoil in the euro zone and head off the ...  

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, wrapping up the G8 summit he hosted at Camp David, welcomed Europe's focus on rekindling growth and warned the crisis in the euro zone was dangerous for the world. Obama, whose re-election ...  

CAMP DAVID: A growing chorus of world leaders on Friday pushed for a shift toward more pro-growth policies to help ease a European crisis that threatens to oust Greece from the euro zone and reverberate throughout the global economy. Setting the ...  

President Barack Obama, the G8 host, has urged European leaders repeatedly to do more to stimulate growth, fearing contagion from the euro crisis that could hurt the U.S. economy and his chances of re-election in November. British Prime Minister ...  

DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Iowa magic that launched Barack Obama to the presidency four years ago has all but faded. Soured by the direction of the nation and its economy, Iowa has drifted away from Obama since his 2008 caucus victory over Hillary ...  

WASHINGTON -- The White House is aggressively pushing the idea that, contrary to widespread belief, President Barack Obama is tightfisted with taxpayer dollars. To back it up, the administration cites a media report that claims federal spending ...  

Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @PoliticalTicker Earlier this week, President Barack Obama chided Romney for using his former experience heading Bain Capital, a private equity firm, as a major sticking point for his candidacy. While the financial ...  

His cash advantage threatened, President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts after robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash from the party faithful ...  

TALLAHASSEE | Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has moved into a lead over President Barack Obama in the crucial swing state of Florida, a new poll shows. Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, was preferred by 47 percent to Obama's 41 ...  

President Barack Obama is taking a break from active campaigning for a few days to host back-to-back world summits. Yet U.S. presidential politics will be lurking just offstage at both. First, leaders of eight wealthy democracies gather at Camp ...  

(AP) WASHINGTON - For President Barack Obama's relationship with France, it's out with "Sarkozy the American" and in with Francois Hollande the Socialist. Freshly inaugurated, French President Hollande visits the White House on Friday and plans ...  

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is set to announce $3 billion in private sector pledges aimed at alleviating hunger in Africa and urge the world's biggest economies to make good on their own financial promises. Obama was to unveil the food ...  

Here is the image the White House sought to convey from the just-concluded NATO Summit in Chicago: President Barack Obama talking with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Ali Zardari. Even though Afghan forces are only prepared ...  

WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew the presidential endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, saying he wasn't ready "to throw my weight behind someone" at this time. The former chairman of the ...  

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is paying tribute to veterans during Memorial Day weekend, honoring those willing to sacrifice their lives for their country. Obama says in his weekly radio and Internet address he will mark Monday's holiday ...  

CAMP ROUND MEADOW, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron resorted to a spot of treadmill diplomacy to tackle the world's problems on Saturday, sweating over the euro zone debt crisis while working out ...  

Nothing inspires Democrats like the Barack Obama swagger — the supreme self-confidence on stage, the self-certainty in private. So nothing inspires more angst than when that same Obama stumbles, as he has leaving the gate in 2012. To top it off ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House has selected the head of the intelligence branch in its budget office to be President Barack Obama's top adviser on cybersecurity issues, a move that comes as Congress and the Obama administration are at odds ...  

Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee are making fundraising gains, but they still trail President Barack Obama. Obama ended April with combined cash stockpiles of $144.3 million from his campaign, the Democratic National Committee ...  

President Barack Obama arrived in the Bay Area on Wednesday night for the latest of his lucrative Silicon Valley campaign fundraising trips. Air Force One touched down at Moffett Field in Mountain View at 6:18 p.m. A motorcade awaited to whisk ...  

DENVER — Minutes after President Barack Obama announced he supported gay marriage, the Democratic governor of Colorado choked back tears in Denver as he ordered state lawmakers to reconsider a civil-unions measure that Republicans had defeated ...  

(CNN) – After a rough week in the investment industry, President Barack Obama used his weekly address Saturday to urge Congress to stand by increased regulations of Wall Street, while Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin continued the Republican call ...  

Warning North Korea from its doorstep, President Barack Obama said Pyongyang risks deepening its isolation in the international community if it proceeds with a planned long-range rocket launch.  

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's preferred path to end the Iranian nuclear standoff faces a stern test this week when world powers sit down with Iran in another bid to press it to meet international demands to prove it is not trying ...  

Is Hakeem Jeffries Brooklyn’s Barack Obama? The young New York assemblyman running for the seat held by retiring Rep. Ed Towns (D) shares some surface characteristics with the president. “They’re both African-American, they’re both strikingly ...  

President Barack Obama jokes with French President Francois Hollande during a photo op of world leaders at the G-8 Summit at Camp David, Md. CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) - Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama ...  

CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama sought to undermine Mitt Romney's key rationale for his presidential candidacy Monday, sharply attacking his Republican challenger's background as a venture capitalist and arguing that profit-making alone ...  

Chicago: In an unmistakable snub, US President Barack Obama left Pakistan off a list of nations he thanked for help getting war supplies into Afghanistan. The omission speaks to the prolonged slump in US relations with Pakistan that clouded a ...  

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama pressed Europe on Friday to shift toward a more pro-growth policy and away from austerity to tackle a crisis that threatens to push Greece out of the euro zone and send economic shockwaves worldwide. Setting ...  

NEW YORK—An independent group seeking to oust President Barack Obama launched a new TV ad Tuesday suggesting Obama had let down the voters who vaulted him into the White House in 2008. A pro-Obama group answered with an ad slamming Republican ...  

Mitt Romney has already "repudiated" a proposed independent ad campaign that would have used President Barack Obama's former relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to attack the president. It wasn't a hard call for Romney. Obama is no ...  

Three men accused of making Molotov cocktails had been planning to attack President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home, and other targets during this weekend's NATO summit, prosecutors said Saturday. The Monitor's ...  

Presumptive republican nominee Mitt Romney is edging President Barack Obama among voters leading into the Memorial Day weekend, according to the latest Rasmussen poll. Romney is earning 45 percent of the vote to Obama’s 44 percent, with five ...  

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As President Barack Obama readies for a return to the Iowa State Fairgrounds, his campaign is reminding voters that it was in that same spot where Republican rival Mitt Romney declared last year that "corporations are people."  

President Barack Obama will follow two scripts on his trip to Iowa on Thursday. He will visit a wind turbine blade manufacturer in Newton to warn how the pending loss of two wind energy tax credits will hurt Iowa’s economy, White House aides ...  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, hoping to spur U.S. innovation in the explosive field of mobile communications, on Wednesday ordered all major federal agencies to make many more of their services available on mobile telephones ...  

By KEN THOMAS Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - President Barack Obama is delivering his final commencement speech of the season, addressing graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy before pivoting to political fundraising out West.  

President Barack Obama has dined atop San Francisco's Nob Hill, overlooked the Pacific from Corona Del Mar and rubbed shoulders with celebrities at George Clooney's Hollywood mansion. But as he returns to California on Wednesday for his 15th ...  

It’s enough to make even the most ardent Obama cynic scratch his head in confusion. Amidst all the cries of Barack Obama being the most prolific big government spender the nation has ever suffered, Marketwatch is reporting that our president ...  

A huge security operation has swung into place in the political backyard of US President Barack Obama, with police deployed along the main arteries, some on horseback, as Coast Guard boats topped with machine guns patrol the river. It is the ...  

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama sought to wrap up a NATO summit Monday with a show of unity for his strategy to end the more than decade-old U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan in 2014, even as a feud with Pakistan and an early pullout ...  

Barack Obama said he would not relent on his attacks against Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital amid criticism by some prominent Democrats that his campaign’s scathing critique of the private equity firm was unfair. “This is not a distraction.  

Who would have guessed that Barack Obama was the original birther, peddling the story that he was born in Kenya long before Donald Trump, Sheriff Joe and assorted nut jobs took it up as a crusade in fantasy and futility. Mr. Obama’s literary ...  

The advertising onslaught of the fall presidential election has begun in Pennsylvania and a handful of other states that may be up for grabs between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney. Republicans and Democrats ...  

WASHINGTON - Aiming squarely at Republican critics of Wall Street reform, President Barack Obama said Saturday that investment bank JPMorgan’s stunning $2-billion loss serves as a reminder of the importance of Washington’s role in preventing ...  

Three men had previously been charged in the NATO plot, with authorities saying they planned to target President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters, the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and several other law enforcement and financial sites.  

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will find his diplomatic clout tested at twin summits on his own turf beginning today. The big global problems are the economic mess in Europe and finding scarce money to boost a postwar Afghanistan — and ...  

“The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way,” says the proposal, which was overseen by Fred Davis and commissioned by Joe Ricketts, the founder ...  

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts. They're doing it in the wake of robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash ...  

President Barack Obama holds a cash advantage of more than 2-to-1 over Republican challenger Mitt Romney but the president's money advantage is beginning to dwindle. Obama's campaign reported $115.1 million in the bank through April and the ...  

What a difference four years make. When Barack Obama was running for president, he successfully managed to distance himself from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, leaving his Chicago church during the campaign and shrugging off suggestions that the ...  

WASHINGTON, May 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Saturday called on Americans to honor military veterans and uphold "the ideals for which so many patriots have fought and died." In his weekly radio and Internet address, the president ...  

WASHINGTON -- The reelection campaign of President Barack Obama reported raising $25.7 million in April, down from $35 million raised in March. While the campaign raised fewer dollars last month than the previous one, its support from small ...  

Minutes after President Barack Obama endorsed gay marriage on May 9th, 2012 Colorado's Democratic governor choked back tears as he ordered state lawmakers to reconsider a civil-unions measure defeated the day before by Republicans. However ...  

President Barack Obama’s underwhelming victory over a nonexistent candidate in Tuesday’s primary in Kentucky can be tied to a mix of factors — but mostly to widespread and emphatic opposition to many of his policies, according to state and ...  

ATHERTON, Calif. — His cash advantage threatened, President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts after robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash ...  

President Barack Obama said Monday that using Bain Capital to question Mitt Romney’s economic credentials is not only fair game, but also part of his core argument against his Republican opponent in the upcoming general election. In a news ...  

WASHINGTON—In the risky business of running for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are largely playing it safe. For all the small daily dramas of the 2012 campaign, there's a risk-averse dynamic playing out: Neither candidate has been ...  

President Barack Obama has received $17,869 in donations for his re-election efforts from 18 members of Brown University’s faculty, including Ruth Simmons, who is stepping down as president of the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island.  

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama holds a cash advantage of more than 2-to-1 over Republican challenger Mitt Romney but the president’s money advantage is beginning to dwindle. Obama’s campaign reported $115.1 million in the bank through ...  

Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital has been slammed from all sides since the former Massachusetts governor entered the presidential race, including by President Barack Obama on Monday. Here are the 10 harshest attacks: 1. “… Mitt Romney ...  

WASHINGTON: Americans are split between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney less than six months before the presidential poll in November, according to two new polls. A Washington Post/ABC News survey released ...  

COLORADO SPRINGS — President Barack Obama has arrived at Falcon Stadium, where he awaits providing the commencement speech during Air Force Academy graduation ceremonies. The president is to give the speech to cadets and their families at ...  

Apparently, being America’s first black president has its benefits. It means President Obama’s campaign team can cry racism (and get away with it) any time Republicans criticize his policies or his past — specifically his past association ...  

President Barack Obama called Monday for NATO countries to sign off on his exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for an end to combat operations next year and the withdrawal of the U.S.-led international military force by the end of 2014.  

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday said that he disapproves of a Republican super PAC's plan to link President Barack Obama to Rev. Jeremiah Wright's inflammatory comments, a tactic that had been used by some in 2008, but ...  

Newton, Ia. – President Barack Obama — here to stump for an extension for wind energy tax breaks — hammered on his Republican opponents who he said are standing in the way economic progress. “Too many of my Republican friends in Congress ...  

Re: “Getting to know the candidates,” May 16 editorial. In your editorial you stated that your readers deserve to know about how Mitt Romney and Barack Obama behaved as youths. At first blush, I thought: Finally! We’re going to get some ...  

CAMP DAVID, Md. — Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the debt that has crippled the ...  

CAMP DAVID, Md. — Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the debt that has crippled the ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker is backing off comments he made Sunday, when he criticized President Barack Obama's re-election campaign for its attacks on Bain Capital, the private equity firm once run by Republican ...  

WASHINGTON - In a revival of the controversy surrounding President Barack Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate, a state official in Arizona says it’s "possible" that he’ll hold Obama’s name off the Arizona ballot if Hawaii officials don’t ...  

President Barack Obama delivered his harshest rebuttal yet to rival Mitt Romney on Thursday, dismissing his challenger's claims as "a cowpie of distortions" while seeking to rekindle the all-but-faded Iowa magic that launched him in 2008.  

A Republican strategist’s plan to air racially tinged ads against President Barack Obama drew rebukes from Mitt Romney and other Republicans while sparking a fresh debate over what -- if anything -- is off-limits in the presidential race.  

With so many Republican lies about President Obama, it’s pretty hard to pick out the worst one. The most vicious stuff, of course, comes from the crazy birthers, who won’t go away. (Way to spend Arizona’s tax dollars, Sheriff Joe Arpaio!  

Move over, Lenny Bruce. A new master of the scatological has emerged on the scene. His name is Barack Obama, and he dishes out dirt. A regular Cloaca Professional he’s become. Matthew Continetti, writing about the president’s rapidly ...  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday called on the U.S. Congress to back his efforts for tough new financial industry oversight, saying a $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan underscored the need for such regulation.  

The Obama campaign called “BS” Thursday on an independent group’s $25 million attack ad that accuses the president of breaking his promises. Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s deputy campaign manager, used the abbreviation to describe an ad ...  

President Barack Obama faces new warning signs in a once-promising Southern state and typically Democratic-voting Midwestern states roughly five months before the election even as he benefits nationally from encouraging economic news.  

(CNN) – In a commencement address that often echoed his campaign pitch, Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday offered graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy a full-throated espousal of President Barack Obama's foreign policy.  

President Barack Obama’s campaign is doubling down on its attack on Mitt Romney’s career at private-equity firm Bain Capital, airing a new ad on Monday even as a high-profile Democrat says the attack makes him “very uncomfortable.”  

Herman Cain says he believes President Barack Obama’s relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is still “fair game,” despite Mitt Romney’s denunciation of a plan to attack the president’s ties to the controversial minister.