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Obama picks foreign policy aide as chief of staff
President Barack Obama announced Friday that his new chief of staff is longtime trusted aide Denis McDonough, whom the president described as a close ...
Analysis: Optimistic Obama faces tough to-do list
It's a good thing President Barack Obama considers himself a congenital optimist. There are no easy "gets" as he scrolls through his second-term to-do ...
GOP wants budget; Schumer warns they will get one
Democrats are looking to make new revenue part of the Senate's first budget in almost four years, which will be released soon after the start of ...
Obama adviser hedges optimism on stricter gun laws
The Obama administration says it's confident stricter gun laws can be passed, but it's hedging its optimism by stressing just how politically ...
Death toll climbs past 80 in siege in the Sahara
The death toll from the terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed past 80 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the refinery for ...
US wants to know how Algerian attack unfolded
The White House says it will work with the Algerian government to understand how events unfolded in the terrorist attack on a natural gas complex in ...
New nonprofit to promote Obama agenda
In an unprecedented move, President Barack Obama's vaunted political organization is being turned into a nonprofit group — funded in part by corporate ...
A look at expected Obama administration departures
President Barack Obama is weighing replacements for several White House aides and Cabinet members expected to leave before his second term begins, or ...
Change coming to Obama's team, just not right away
Big changes are coming to President Barack Obama's administration — just not right away. The White House is making the nation's high-stakes fiscal ...
THE RACE: Candidates stay busy ahead of vote tally
After many months of grueling campaigning, the waiting stage of the presidential sweepstakes is near as both parties worked furiously to boost turnout ...
Fla. remains tough sell to end for Obama, Romney
To the last minute, Florida is proving to be an expensive and frustrating state for President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney alike, seemingly ...
Obama on the road: a study in self-assurance
In his days in the state Senate in Springfield, Ill., Barack Obama was known as a pretty good poker player. While he might have known how to mask a ...
Obama, Romney battle over auto bailout in Ohio
President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are turning the White House race in Ohio into a referendum on the auto bailout, an effort ...
All day, all night: Obama's long search for votes
Deep in the longest day of his campaign, President Barack Obama was in a Las Vegas casino, gambling that his re-election bid needed one more stop.
Romney ups criticism of Obama's second-term plans
Heading into the campaign's final weeks, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is upping his criticism of President Barack Obama's plans for ...
Obama strategy post-debate highlights women, Libya
President Barack Obama's campaign moved swiftly Wednesday to try to capitalize on his spirited debate performance, making an aggressive push on ...
Romney seeks Ohio votes as Obama preps for debate
Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan went back to school on Saturday to rally college students in all corners of all-important Ohio and hammer at ...
After debate, Obama campaign signals 'adjustments'
His performance panned, President Barack Obama is changing his debate strategy against Republican Mitt Romney, aides conceding the president must find ...
Romney presses foreign policy criticism anew
Amid violent flare-ups in the Middle East, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is trying to prove his own readiness to be commander in chief ...
Obama trying to avoid miscue in first debate
President Barack Obama has one mission heading into his first debate with Republican Mitt Romney: Don't screw things up. Five weeks from Election Day, ...
Ryan rejects need for breakthrough moment
Mitt Romney's running mate shot down the need for a breakthrough in the first presidential debate Wednesday, trying to allay Republican concerns that ...
Race may be down to a handful of unknowns
Flush with cash, Mitt Romney plans to open a new front in the White House race by challenging President Barack Obama in upper Midwest states where he ...
Analysis: Weak jobs report delivers blow to Obama
The disappointing August jobs report raises yet another campaign obstacle for President Barack Obama and makes his hopes of holding onto his own job ...