JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will direct the Labor Department to strengthen overtime pay protections for millions of workers,...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was blocked by bipartisan Senate opposition...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Keeping his promise to act with or without a cooperative Congress, President Obama recently announced plans to...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is drawing attention to businesses hiring long-term unemployed workers and is encouraging the private sector to...
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Stressing the importance of having job-training programs that work, President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered a “soup to nuts” review of federal...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is focusing on training workers for in-demand jobs, another theme from his State of the Union address. The White House...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic push to boost the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour is a long shot in Congress this election year, even...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA National Correspodent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The new year has ushered in a renewed focus on education reform in the Obama administration. This...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Which recent president has used the word “gay” most often in a public speech, statement or proclamation? And who used it the least,...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama meets Pope Francis in the Vatican in March, both men will speak a common economic...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writers MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Technology companies and industry groups took President Barack Obama’s speech on U.S....
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will hold an African leaders summit in Washington this summer. The White House says the summit will focus on strengthening...
[The Washington Post] President Obama gave a series of comments to the New Yorker’s David Remnick that, predictably, are attracting attention this morning because he said: “There’s no doubt that there’s some...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Invoking his own personal story, President Barack Obama made a plea for bipartisan work to combat poverty and declared,...
[New York Times] WASHINGTON — This spring, a longtime staff member for President Obama, Alyssa Mastromonaco, let a friend in on a secret. Mr. Obama had assigned...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In the aftermath of a recent report that found the lack of student loan servicing standards and information on monies...
[The Huffington Post] The man who took the picture showing President Obama posing for a selfie said Wednesday that the world was getting a very skewed interpretation of...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama announced a new initiative at the National Institutes of Health in pursuit of a cure...
[The Washington Post] “I’m not a particularly ideological person,” President Obama told a group of Democratic donors at a fundraiser in Seattle on Sunday night. Republican...
[The Washington Post] The Senate vote Thursday to lower the barriers for presidential nominations should make it easier for President Obama to accomplish key second-term priorities,...
[The Washington Post] 1. The change the Senate made today is small but consequential: The filibuster no longer applies to judicial or executive-branch nominees. It still...
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Monday stymied President Barack Obama’s latest judicial nominee, leaving one of the nation’s top appellate courts shorthanded and escalating the endless confirmation...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he’s considering changing his chamber’s rules to make it harder for...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner says the only way to fix President Barack Obama’s health care law is to scrap it entirely. Boehner says...
by JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Bowing to intense criticism, President Barack Obama apologized to Americans who are losing health insurance plans...
