Obama plans major push on global warming

President Barack Obama plans a major push against the pollution blamed for global warming, trying under pressure from environmentalists and fellow politicians to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "This is the global threat of our time," Obama said in a speech Wednesday ...

• Updated: 12:20 a.m. Thursday, June 20, 2013

Obama making plans to tackle global warming

President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more — and we will do more," Obama ...

• Updated: 8:16 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Immigration bill could decide 2016, senator says

Republicans' hopes to reclaim the White House in the 2016 elections hinge on whether they support — or sabotage — the immigration overhaul being debated in the Senate, two lawmakers who helped write the proposal warn. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday told conservatives who are trying to block the ...

• Updated: 7:10 a.m. Monday, June 17, 2013

Current, former officials back secret surveillance

Top officials from the Obama and Bush administrations say the government's newly exposed secret surveillance programs have been essential to disrupting terrorist plots and have not infringed on Americans' civil liberties. The officials justify the massive trawling for phone and Internet data as new revelations add to public disclosures about ...

• Updated: 3:31 a.m. Monday, June 17, 2013

Graham: Without immigration, GOP to fail in 2016

Republicans are "in a demographic death spiral" and will fail in their effort to win the presidency if the party blocks an immigration overhaul, a leading GOP senator said Sunday. Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who helped write a bipartisan immigration bill under debate in the Senate, said ...

• Updated: 1:22 p.m. Sunday, June 16, 2013

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC's "This Week" — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.; former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla. ___ NBC's "Meet the Press" — Sens. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., Mark Udall, D-Colo., and Lindsey Graham R-S.C.; Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va.; Michael Hayden, a former ...

• Updated: 2:22 p.m. Saturday, June 15, 2013

IRS manager: White House not involved in reviews

A self-described conservative Republican who is a manager in the Internal Revenue Service office that targeted tea party groups told investigators that he, not the White House, set the review in motion, the top Democrat on the House watchdog committee said Sunday. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., released a partial transcript ...

• Updated: 2:42 p.m. Sunday, June 9, 2013

Senators differ on value of phone records program

Two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are divided about whether there's evidence that the government's phone records collection program has kept the United States safe. It was disclosed last week that the National Security Agency has been gathering the records of hundreds of millions of U.S. phone customers. Democratic ...

• Updated: 1:24 p.m. Sunday, June 9, 2013

Obama-Xi meeting in Calif. sets low-key tone

A sprawling California desert estate built by billionaire philanthropists Walter and Leonore Annenberg is a place where political powerbrokers once discussed critical issues of the day and where royalty — real and Hollywood — soaked up sun and golfed on a private, nine-hole course. Four years after Leonore Annenberg's death, ...

• Updated: 8:48 a.m. Thursday, June 6, 2013

Obama-Xi meeting in Calif sets low-key tone

A sprawling California desert estate built by billionaire philanthropists Walter and Leonore Annenberg is a place where political powerbrokers once discussed critical issues of the day and where royalty — real and Hollywood — soaked up sun and golfed on a private, nine-hole course. Four years after Leonore Annenberg's death, ...

• Updated: 3:24 p.m. Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Companies look to home-grow US IT workforce

Ken Behrendt had already had his fill of the hidden costs of offshoring, but the Eagle Creek Software Services chief executive was having trouble finding enough qualified consultants to expand the company's development and technical support business in the Dakotas. So the Minnesota-based firm turned to the University of South ...

• Updated: 11:01 a.m. Sunday, June 2, 2013

Obama speech on gun control legislation

President Obama used a speech in Colorado at the Denver Police Academy on Wednesday to press Congress for action on legislation that would rein in gun violence, as the White House tries to use the bully pulpit to regain some momentum on the issue. A quick review of the speech ...

• 2:45 a.m. Thursday, April 4, 2013

Washington stumbling toward automatic budget cuts

With just over two weeks until $85 billion in across the board budget cuts are set to hit all corners of the federal budget, the blame game is in full bloom in Washington, D.C., as this week's State of the Union Address seemingly did nothing to push lawmakers any closer ...

• 10:00 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013

Congress is urged to raise gas taxes

A day after President Obama proposed $50 billion in new spending on roads and bridges as part of his State of the Union Address, a leading business group called on the Congress to do something that hasn't been done in twenty years, raise federal gasoline taxes to pay for infrastructure ...

• 9:57 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013

President Obama's State of the Union

Here is the prepared text of President Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union Address.  This text was sent by reporters by the White House Press Office just before the speech began. = February 12, 2013   Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery State of the ...

• 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013

Special section: State of the Union

Latest news and video about President Obama's State of the Union Address.

Pentagon pleads with Congress to block cuts

Sometimes when the Congress is engaged in a tough legislative battle, we say the House is "jamming" the Senate to accept a certain bill or vice versa, basically trying jam something down the other guy's throat. Today at a Senate hearing, it almost seemed like it was the Pentagon trying ...

• 11:01 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013

Obama marks second term with State of the Union

Still facing a divided Congress, President Obama goes before lawmakers and the nation on Tuesday night ready to urge action on economic growth, gun violence, immigration reform and more, with no guarantee of anything but more sharp partisan battles in the months ahead. "What the President has been saying and ...

• 10:19 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, 2013

Exclusive interview: John Boehner on sequestration

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said Monday the only way to avoid damaging budget cuts at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is for the President and Senate Democrats to agree to other spending cuts, rather than try to raise taxes. Boehner’s comments came in a one-on-one interview with WHIO-TV at the ...

• 12:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, 2013

White House signals focus on economy

While there will certainly be more than one issue discussed by President Obama in Tuesday night's State of the Union Address, the White House made clear in recent days that the signature focus of this speech will be on the economy. WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will focus his ...

• 9:31 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013