New Jersey’s candidates for governor are darting through the state on the last day of a campaign being billed as a vote on President Barack Obama’s popularity.

President Barack Obama says the public and private sectors must find more ways to create jobs to continue the U.S. climb out of an economic recession.

Celebrities George Clooney and Oprah Winfrey and prominent lobbyists, corporate executives and Democratic fundraisers were among the first to score visits with President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle or top aides at the White House, newly released records show.

President Barack Obama said Saturday that reports the economy is growing again and that more than 1 million jobs were saved or created by his stimulus plan show “we are moving in the right direction.“

President Barack Obama is set to sign an extension of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS bill.

President Barack Obama is hailing new figures showing the economy grew at a 3.5 percent rate in the third quarter, saying the country has “come a long way” since early this year.

An early progress report on President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports.

President Barack Obama made a midnight dash to this air base Wednesday to honor the return of fallen soldiers, absorbing the ultimate cost of war as the United States endures its deadliest month of the Afghanistan campaign.

NATO’s top official says the alliance welcomes President Barack Obama’s revamped plans for a missile defense system in Europe and hopes to bring it fully into NATO.

The Obama administration deserves credit for backing away from one of the Bush administration’s more ill-considered policies: the pursuit of medical-marijuana sellers. A number of states have passed laws permitting the medicinal use of pot. But the Bush administration would have none of it. It zealously used federal law to go after dispensaries—in contravention of common sense, right reason, and the principles of federalism conservatives generally hold dear.

The Treasury Department is ordering seven big companies that haven’t paid back last year’s government bailouts to halve their top executives’ average compensation

Japan is unlikely to make a decision on the planned relocation of a major U.S. Marine airfield before President Barack Obama visits next month, officials said Thursday.

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are at daughter Sasha’s school for a parent-teacher conference.

Another in a series of imaginary conversations with Barack Obama. Actual quotations appear in quotation marks . . . Yo Mr. President. Hey. I see you’re back with more questions. Questions are my bag, Sir—they just don’t go away. Two principal areas today: the Nobel and Afghanistan. May we start with the Nobel? Sure.

“Barrels of Good Will for Obama, but Few Foreign Policy Benefits,“ read a recent New York Times headline. Polls show that foreigners generally feel better about the U.S. since the change in administration. Obama’s Nobel reinforces the impression. But this has not translated into tangible diplomatic gains. There are two reasons for that. The first: Governments—even democratic ones, and many are not democratic—are not mere mechanisms for translating popular opinion into official action. The second: With few if any exceptions, nations have interests, not friends.