Politics

A new USA Today/ Gallup poll found a virtual tie between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in swing states, but Obama has the edge in voter enthusiasm. From Gallup:   While Obama edges out Romney by two points in the overall pre...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that the Taliban is growing in strength and the insurgency in Afghanistan may not be defeated before the U.S. withdraws its troops. “President [Hamid] Karzai believes that the Taliban will not come...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Sunday that repeated misbehavior by members of the U.S. military has hurt the country’s mission in Afghanistan. “There is damage, there’s no ques...

Actor Robert De Niro, a longtime supporter of President Barack Obama, is praising the president's decision to go after Osama bin Laden and suggested he will be a better president if he gets reelected.  “It’s very easy to crit...

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) blasted President Barack Obama on Sunday for not doing anything to help Iranians protesting for democracy in 2009. “There’s been some major strategic errors,” she said about his foreign policy on NBC’...

The White House continued its cautious approach to improving job numbers this month, saying it's "important not to read too much into any one monthly report." Still, Alan B. Krueger, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said...

POLITICO's Glenn Thrush reports on David Maraniss's new biography of President Barack Obama and how it has the potential to unravel the narrative that the president constructed of his life: The success of “Dreams” has given Obam...

The White House tapped late-night comedian Jimmy Fallon to film a 30-second spot about his first job – as a cleaner at grocery stores - for the administration’s new summer jobs program. In the video posted on Wednesday, Fallon dishes abou...

Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney was rather amiable in his statement following President Obama's national address from Afghanistan on Tuesday. “I am pleased that President Obama has returned to Afghanistan. Our troops and the American peo...

While his remarks were directed at Americans, President Obama said during his address on Tuesday that he hoped the agreement he signed with Afghan President Hamid Karzai sent a strong message to the people of Afghanistan that the United States would no...

President Barack Obama marked the anniversary of the raid he ordered that killed Osama bin Laden with a nationally televised address from Afghanistan, in which he sought to remind the American people why we are at war in Afghanistan. “Let us rem...

(AP Photo) Adding to the growing list of books about President Barack Obama and his family is a new memoir by his sister who was raised in Africa. Auma Obama, who now works at CARE International in Nairobi, didn't meet Barack until the 1980...