Washington Bureau

First, President Barack Obama was waxed in a tux. Now the wax first lady Michelle Obama wears a gown. The first couple in wax, unveiled Tuesday by Madame Tussauds in...

President Barack Obama, speaking from the pulpit of a Washington church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sometimes spoke, called on the congregation to rally around the spirit that...

The president has been known to throw the first pitch at the start of baseball season. But a presidential pitch in Times Square? The White House has tried to curb...

Maybe now we know why President Barack Obama, leader of the free world, and Warren Buffett, "oracle of Omaha," get along so well. They're related. So says the research of...

President Barack Obama is looking to use bailout money that banks are returning to the government to help tackle two of the nation's biggest problems -- unemployment and the budget...

Eager to show he isn't neglecting the recession, President Barack Obama hosted a jobs summit Thursday, soliciting ideas from scores of business and labor leaders on how to escape an...

After a long briefing Wednesday by officials from the Pentagon and federal Bureau of Prisons, members of Congress from Illinois remained divided on a bid to transfer between 50 and...

In his first presidential pardon, President Barack Obama followed the path of presidents before him Wednesday and spared a jaunty, 45-pound turkey -- named "Courage" -- from a Thanksgiving table....

Momentum is growing to deal with financial institutions deemed too big to fail by breaking them up so they're not so big in the first place. "The era of the...

Barack Obama may be the country's top dog, but he's revealed that he ranks fourth in influence in the Obama family, "behind Michelle, Malia and Sasha." "I'm slightly ahead of...