Obama to pray for victims

By Atsuko Matsumoto / Japan News Staff Writer President Barack Obama—for the first time as an incumbent U.S. president—clearly stated the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture are subject to Article 5 of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, in a ...

TOKYO (Dispatches) Trade talks, territorial disputes and disagreements over war history await President Barack Obama when he arrives Wednesday on a long-delayed effort to re-set U.S. policy in Asia. Japan is Obama's first stop in a four-nation ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergran Grimes is calling on President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, joining 11 other incumbent Democrats as the party tries to keep control of the Senate this ...

The selfie. The "guys' trip." An endorsement? Not quite. President Barack Obama, who has never been less than glowing in public praise of his vice president, said in an interview aired Thursday that Joe Biden "will go down as one of the finest ...

According to Lisa Monaco, Barack Obama's Security and Counter-terrorism adviser,parents have a duty to monitor the attitudes and enthusiasms of their children, and report them to law enforcement if they display symptoms of incipient extremism. ...

Photo courtesy of :President Barack Obama talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan as they stand in the West Wing Lobby of the White House, February 22, 2013. Jethro Mullen and Kevin Liptak, CNN Wire President Barack Obama arrived in ...

Have the Republicans become the white man's party? Are the depth and bitterness of Republicans' opposition to Barack Obama and his administration the product of racism? Those are questions you hear in the clash of political argument, and you will ...

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky will be the most vulnerable Republican incumbent in the November elections. He's also the leader of the Senate Republican caucus. The two facts are not a coincidence. Politicians who climb the leadership ladder ...

President Obama speaks about the Department of Homeland Security's recent announcement about illegal immigrant deportation. Photograph by Chip Somodevilla/GettyImages. Between the end of the primaries and the start of the conventions, ...