Between economy and trouble, Obama approval steady

*** The White Houses P.R. mess: While there is still no evidence connecting the IRSs targeting of conservative groups directly to the White House or to the president personally, or to his re-election campaign, it doesnt mean the White House doesnt ...

The meeting of President Barack Obama and President Thein Sein of Myanmar at the White House Monday has reignited some of the controversy over the pace of improvement of U.S. relations with that troubled nation. Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is ...

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which represents 27 Tea Party organizations unlawfully targeted by the Internal Revenue Service, said today the White House assertion that the IRS misconduct of targeting ...

strategy speech, will discuss his plans for unmanned drones and Guantanamo Bay, a White House official said. In a broad and comprehensive address at the prestigious National Defence University (NDU) today, Obama will lay out the framework for US ...

Calling for an end to violence in Syria, the White House has said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad continued to butcher his own people and therefore he is needed to go.

President Barack Obama is showing singer-songwriter Carole King that she has friends at the White House. At an East Room concert Wednesday night, Obama is presenting the 71-year-old singer-songwriter with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. She's the first ...

President Barack Obama's top spokesman says the White House is facing "legitimate criticisms" for its shifting accounts about who knew what about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups, and when they knew it. Press secretary ...

Michelle Obama said Wednesday that stories of toil and sweat by slaves once held at a historic home within sight of the White House are an important part of U.S. history, including her own personal story, and are "as vital to our national memory as any ...

A year ago, when the current Internal Revenue Service scandal that has swirled around President Obama first emerged, Washington — and, apparently, the White House