United States President Barack Obama announced steps to push for the close of Guantanamo detention center. Obama had repeatedly vowed to close the camp during his 2008 presidential campaign. ...
09:27 AM, May 24, 2013
Washington: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said that the country's immigration reform, currently underway, should be able to attract "the best and the brightest" people from across the world "in a legal fashion". "We should make sure that we are cracking down on employers that are gaming the system", Obama said at a White House news conference. "We should make the legal immigration system work more effectively so that...
11:05 PM, Apr 30, 2013
US President Barack Obama was at his funniest best at the White House Correspondents Dinner. While poking fun at himself, he spoke about getting bangs like First Lady Michelle Obama. ...
04:01 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Oxford: A Mississippi man was arrested on Wednesday, accused of sending letters to President Barack Obama and a senator that tested positive for the poisonous ricin and set the nation's capital on edge a day after the Boston Marathon bombings. FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen said the man was arrested on Wednesday. His name wasn't immediately released publicly. Authorities still waited for definitive tests on the letters to...
06:02 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Washington: The FBI says preliminary tests on a letter sent to President Barack Obama indicate the presence of poisonous ricin. The letter is undergoing further testing because preliminary field tests can be unreliable, creating false positives. The letter was intercepted at a facility away from the White House. It comes the day after officials said a letter sent to Sen Roger Wicker tested positive for poisonous ricin. That letter to...
10:02 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Boston: US President Barack Obama admitted on Tuesday that the twin bombings in Boston were an "act of terror" and that the country's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the incident. Obama, who had refrained from using the word "terror" in his earlier address after the blasts, said the "Americans will not be terrorised" and that justice will be done. In the biggest attacks on the US soil since...
09:21 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Washington: Holding back tears, the mother of a six year-old boy, who was murdered alongside 19 other children in Connecticut four months ago, made a passionate plea from the White House for Americans and their leaders to embrace her call for stricter gun control laws. In a significant departure from the past, US President Barack Obama had asked Francine Wheeler to deliver his weekly radio and web address to the...
07:53 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Washington: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday made one more push to have strict gun control laws, with back ground checks, through the US Congress where lawmakers are resisting his move. Reminding an audience in Hartford, Connecticut, about the death of innocent people due to several shooting incidents across the country including the firing on Sikh worshippers in Wisconsin, Obama said his fight is not about him. "This is not...
03:05 PM, Apr 09, 2013
A group of supporters of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has launched a campaign to support her possible presidential bid in the 2016 elections. The group "Ready for Hillary" is a Super PAC, a Political Action Committee (PAC), that is a type of organisation that campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation. ...
03:50 PM, Apr 03, 2013
US President Barack Obama did not pass a chance to play a prank on April Fool's day. Obama called for a press statement and let an 8-year-old take his place! ...
09:25 AM, Apr 02, 2013
US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry may engage in political games. But they occasionally take time off to play some other games as well. Obama goofed around with a football in Washington demonstrating some superior balancing skills. ...
12:26 PM, Mar 27, 2013
US President Barack Obama has signed into law the new Violence Against Women Act, which he termed "very important" and representing the positive progress of the country. "One of the great legacies of this law is that it didn't just change the rules; it changed our culture. It empowered people to start speaking out. It made it okay for us, as a society, to talk about domestic abuse," Obama said...
10:04 AM, Mar 08, 2013
Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has emerged as the frontrunner for the 2016 presidential race, according to a new survey. The latest Fox News poll asks the simple question, "Would this person make a good president?" Out of a dozen potential 2016 candidates, the top two picks are the two former secretaries of state, Democrat Clinton and Republican Condoleezza Rice. ...
09:06 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Barack Obama has started his second term as the President of the United States. ...
11:10 PM, Jan 22, 2013
A confident President Barack Obama kicked off his second term on Monday with an impassioned call for a more inclusive America that rejects partisan rancor and embraces immigration reform, gay rights and the fight against climate change. ...
03:58 AM, Jan 22, 2013
Asserting "America's possibilities are limitless," President Barack Obama declared on Monday that a decade of war is ending and the nation's economy is recovering as he launched into a second term before a flag-waving crowd of hundreds of thousands on the National Mall. ...
11:15 PM, Jan 21, 2013
We will bring you realtime coverage in words, photos, sounds, video, interactives and graphics of the 57th US presidential inauguration. ...
01:47 PM, Jan 21, 2013
The first lady of US, Michelle Obama has been spotted sporting fashionable bangs which is making her look younger. ...
12:54 PM, Jan 21, 2013
As political experts assess Republican Mitt Romney's failed US presidential bid, an analysis of how his campaign and President Barack Obama's winning team used cable TV to target ads at specific groups of voters may offer some valuable tips for the future. ...
10:40 AM, Jan 06, 2013
Year 2012 brought good news for Barack Obama, who won a second term as the US President. In a defining moment, the American voters gave a resounding yes to Obama making him their president for the second time. ...
12:37 PM, Dec 27, 2012
