President Barack Obama heads into the home stretch of his presidency faced with a Republican-controlled Congress. Big issues on his plate include jobs and wage growth, his health care law, and tough foreign-policy challenges
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President Obama skewered Donald Trump over his criticism of the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq and said the Republican presidential nominee is unfit to succeed him in the White House.
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President Barack Obama, after meeting Tuesday with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, said the two leaders agreed to press ahead with a new trade pact and discussed how to ease tensions over China’s increasing assertiveness in the region.
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President Barack Obama said a potential U.S. determination that Russia was behind the computer breach at the Democratic National Committee wouldn’t significantly impact already-strained relations between the two countries.
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President Barack Obama said his decision to authorize U.S. airstrikes on an Islamic State stronghold in Libya for the first time was in response to advances the country’s government has made against the group.
The Trade Debate is tracking developments in Washington as lawmakers grapple with on whether to grant President Obama fast track authority on trade. Keep up with our regular updates.
President Barack Obama attended a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton for the first time on Monday, kicking off an effort that will likely widen the Democratic nominee’s already gaping financial advantage over Republican nominee Donald Trump.
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President Barack Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton for president via a video released by the Clinton campaign—after Mr. Obama met with Mrs. Clinton’s Democratic primary rival Bernie Sanders earlier in the day.
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President Barack Obama was invited by House Speaker Paul Ryan to deliver his final State of the Union address on Jan. 12, 2016.
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President Barack Obama said the debate over the potential resettlement of Syrian refugees in the U.S. had turned into a recruiting tool for Islamic State militants.
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President Barack Obama took his campaign to win passage of a proposed Pacific trade pact to more than 600,000 eBay users on Thursday, writing a letter to small business owners and retailers who use the online e-commerce platform to persuade them of the deal's merits.
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It’s rare to see President Barack Obama offer anything but unstinting praise for his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, but he took an unmistakable jab at her at a news conference Friday when it came to their views on the Syrian civil war.
President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin clinked glasses to a toast offered by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, in a chilly exchange ahead of a planned private meeting later in the day.
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President Barack Obama met on Thursday with the three American men who helped thwart an apparent terrorist attack in Belgium last month, whom he said represented "the very best of America."
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President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. was committed to doing its part in the international effort to help resettle Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war in that country, but said it may not be possible to solve without addressing the festering Syrian civil war.
President Barack Obama will visit New Orleans next week to mark the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the White House said Wednesday, a disaster he has previously called a "man-made catastrophe” and “a shameful breakdown in government."
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President Barack Obama described the growing Republican presidential field as an "interesting bunch" of candidates soon large enough for their own "hunger games."
President Barack Obama gave a powerful eulogy at the funeral of Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and one of the victims in last week’s shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. He ended his speech by leading the crowd in "Amazing Grace" and saying the names of the nine victims. Watch the video.
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President Barack Obama will become the first ever sitting U.S. president to travel to Ethiopia next month, the White House announced Friday.
In an interview with WSJ's Washington bureau chief Jerry Seib in April, President Barack Obama anticipated, in a way, Golden State's NBA championship victory last night.
President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor on Tuesday to two World War I soldiers who were passed over for recognition during their lifetimes in a climate of racism and anti-Semitism.
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