Sheryl Gay Stolberg Nyt News Service

It was exactly one year ago on Thursday that President Obama  plunged into a thicket of racial politics by declaring that a white police officer in Cambridge, Mass., had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard University  professor in his own home. Suddenly, the president whose election suggested the promise of a postracial future w...

President Obama has been telling the nation that he takes responsibility for cleaning up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On Monday, he imparted his buck-stops-here philosophy to an audience of high school graduates, telling them: "Don't make excuses. Take responsibility not just for your successes. Take responsibility where you fall short as w...

President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, reported earnings of $5,505,509 in 2009, more than double their 2008 income of roughly $2.6 million, according to tax returns made public Thursday by the White House.

The civil rights movement will come alive in song at the White House on Wednesday night, when President Barack Obama plans to celebrate Black History Month with a star-studded concert.

President Obama vowed Wednesday night not to give up on his ambitious legislative agenda. He promised to focus intently on the issue of most immediate concern to the nation, jobs.

Michelle Obama said on Wednesday that she is looking to make a deeper and more lasting policy impact, by spearheading an initiative to reduce childhood obesity that, she hopes, will create a legacy by which she can be remembered.

Desiree Rogers, President Barack Obama's social secretary, will not testify on Capitol Hill about how a couple of aspiring reality television show contestants crashed a state dinner.

US President Barack Obama has officially announced 30,000 more troops will be dispatched to Afghanistan at the earliest.

US President Barack Obama announced on Friday that he will accept the Nobel Prize for Peace as a call to action.

It was exactly one year ago on Thursday that President Obama  plunged into a thicket of racial politics by declaring that a white police officer in Cambridge, Mass., had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard University  professor in his own home. Suddenly, the president whose election suggested the promise of a postracial future w...

President Obama has been telling the nation that he takes responsibility for cleaning up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On Monday, he imparted his buck-stops-here philosophy to an audience of high school graduates, telling them: "Don't make excuses. Take responsibility not just for your successes. Take responsibility where you fall short as w...

President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, reported earnings of $5,505,509 in 2009, more than double their 2008 income of roughly $2.6 million, according to tax returns made public Thursday by the White House.

The civil rights movement will come alive in song at the White House on Wednesday night, when President Barack Obama plans to celebrate Black History Month with a star-studded concert.

President Obama vowed Wednesday night not to give up on his ambitious legislative agenda. He promised to focus intently on the issue of most immediate concern to the nation, jobs.

Michelle Obama said on Wednesday that she is looking to make a deeper and more lasting policy impact, by spearheading an initiative to reduce childhood obesity that, she hopes, will create a legacy by which she can be remembered.

Desiree Rogers, President Barack Obama's social secretary, will not testify on Capitol Hill about how a couple of aspiring reality television show contestants crashed a state dinner.

US President Barack Obama has officially announced 30,000 more troops will be dispatched to Afghanistan at the earliest.

US President Barack Obama announced on Friday that he will accept the Nobel Prize for Peace as a call to action.