Obama’s new climate card: nuclear power
President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation.
H.W. Bush visits Obama at White House
Former President George H.W. Bush and his son Jeb pay a social call on President Barack Obama at the White House.
Obama, GOP exchange barbs, ideas in rare encounter
In a remarkably sharp face-to-face confrontation, President Barack Obama chastised Republican lawmakers Friday for opposing him on taxes, health care and the economic stimulus, while they accused him in turn of brushing off their ideas and driving u…
Obama assails Republican foes, urges bipartisan effort
President Barack Obama on Friday scolded his Republican opponents for trying to block his legislative agenda at almost every turn and urged them to join a bipartisan push to create jobs and spur economic recovery.
Obama: GDP reaffirms progress on economy
President Barack Obama said Friday that the economy’s 5.7 percent growth rate in the fourth quarter confirmed progress compared to the economic slump a year ago.
Genealogist: Obama, Mass. Sen.-elect Brown related
It was bad enough that President Barack Obama lost his filibuster-proof margin in the U.S. Senate to a Republican.
NASA to get more money, but must scratch moon plan
President Barack Obama is essentially grounding efforts to return astronauts to the moon and instead is sending NASA in new directions with roughly $6 billion more, according to officials familiar with the plans.
US economy set to post strong growth figures
President Barack Obama vowed in his State of the Union address on Wednesday to make job creation his top priorityThe US economy is forecast to have gathered steam in the final three months of last year, helped by a gradual revival of the housing market.Wall Street analysts expect growth to have picked up to 4.6% [...]
White House pitches rail project as job creator
President Barack Obama is pitching his $8 billion high-speed rail program to Americans as a jobs generator that will revitalize the domestic rail industry. But the full picture is more complicated.
Embattled Obama declares in speech, ‘I don’t quit’
President Barack Obama says he gets it, he knows America is not happy. “I campaigned on the promise of change, ‘change we can believe in,’ the slogan went,” he said Wednesday night in his first State of the Union address.