Obama welcomes crowd to White House to honor music he credits with his election to presidency Crediting civil rights-era protest songs and their ...
First lady Michelle Obama isn't the first national leader to try to get America's kids off the couch. President Dwight D. Eisenhower tried ...
Standing at White House podium, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs mocks Palin's hand notes Even the White House's top spokesman is getting in on the act of mocking former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin for looking to talking points written on her ...
President Barack Obama listens while conducting the daily press briefing, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in the White House press briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Copyright 2010 AP News
Snow forces White House to move concert of civil rights movement a day earlier Facing another wintry wallop, the White House decided to move a concert celebrating civil rights music from Wednesday to Tuesday to beat what could be a second crippling ...
House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, right, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walk past the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, following their meeting with President Barack Obama and bipartisan leaders of ...
Obama says he's ready to work with GOP opponents, but that 'grandstanding' has to come to end President Barack Obama says it's time for Democrats and Republicans to work hard because the American people "expect a seriousness of purpose that transcends petty ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers said on Tuesday that the job market was stabilizing but the economy still had a long way to go to return to health. "Clearly, we've got an economy with many people out ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Richard Shelby has released his "holds" on more than 40 of President Barack Obama's nominees for top government jobs, but is maintaining them on three nominees related to a big Air Force acquisition. Shelby's use of the legislative ...
A look at some first ladies past and their causes: DOLLEY MADISON The first first lady to take on a public project, Madison helped to found an orphanage for young girls, the Washington Female Orphans Asylum. She gave money to the project, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's call for a bipartisan healthcare summit sets the stage for a final push to get the stalled legislation through Congress, but skeptical Republicans said on Monday the only solution is to start over. Obama asked Republicans ...
Obama invites leaders of both parties to half-day discussion of health care In the first major step to revive his health care agenda after his party's loss of a filibuster-proof Senate majority, President Barack Obama on Sunday invited Republican and Democratic leaders ...
