The oil spill hits its 40th day on Saturday with Gulf residents clinging to one hope: that BP’s complicated "top kill" operation will plug the well.
Barack Obama has warned that BP will ‘pay’ for the environmental damage caused by the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.
US President Barack Obama unveiled a new national security strategy on Thursday, replacing former president George Bush’s "war on terror" doctrine.
The oil spill off the south coast of the US now reaches practically all the way to the White House — and President Barack Obama is being soiled.
US President Barack Obama has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House next week.
US President Barack Obama was dispatching two Cabinet secretaries to the fouled Gulf Coast on Monday to keep pressure on energy giant BP.
US President Barack Obama on Saturday blamed the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill on "a breakdown of responsibility" at energy giant BP.
In 2007 Barack Obama commemorated a civil rights march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, on a day seen as the true launch of his presidential campaign.
An oil slick from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to reach a wildlife reserve at the mouth of the Mississippi River on Thursday.
Republicans hung together on Tuesday and again thwarted Democratic efforts to start formal debate on legislation to rein in Wall Street excesses.
Sweeping legislation to rein in Wall Street suffered a temporary setback in the United States Senate on Monday.
President Barack Obama will this week demand swift action on reforms designed to purge a high-risk and excess-riddled Wall Street culture.
South Africa is playing a key role in helping the world hold the threat of nuclear terrorism at bay.
With an African-American in the Oval Office, is this a good time to honour the 19th century soldiers who fought for slavery?
US President Barack Obama, who is hosting the 47-nation summit, says nuclear terrorism is the single biggest threat to global security.
US President Barack Obama considers plan B for Middle East settlement as relations between Israel and United States deteriorate.
A year ago, US President Barack Obama pledged to work for the elimination of nuclear weapons and within months he got the Nobel Peace Prize.
United States President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev signed a landmark nuclear-arms reduction treaty on Thursday.
US President Barack Obama and Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev will sign a treaty on Thursday that slashes their two nations’ atomic arsenals.
Iran’s president on Wednesday warned US counterpart Barack Obama of a "tooth-breaking" response, as he condemned Washington’s new nuclear policy.
The Obama administration unveiled a new policy on Tuesday restricting US use of nuclear weapons.
United States President Barack Obama always said that change would not come easily. Neither, apparently, does explaining it.
The wild enthusiasm may have gone. But in Obama’s ‘home town’, there is still a quiet respect for the man people call ‘our son’.
A by a US president requires careful planning, but sneaking him into Afghanistan — a country in the midst of an eight-year war — is a special case.
Can Republicans ride all the way to election day in November by opposing most of President Barack Obama’s major policies?
United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sealed an agreement on Friday on a landmark nuclear-arms reduction treaty.
Fresh from his victory on landmark healthcare legislation, United States President Barack Obama is ready to take on Wall Street.
United States President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought on Tuesday to ease strained ties.
The US House of Representatives gave final approval to a healthcare overhaul on Sunday, expanding insurance coverage to nearly all Americans.
The US House of Representatives headed for a close vote on a healthcare overhaul on Sunday, with Democratic leaders predicting victory.
Barack Obama is leading his Democratic allies in a campaign to win over wavering lawmakers ahead of a Sunday vote on his historic healthcare overhaul.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday denied a crisis was rocking relations with Israel, as one of the worst rows in years between the allies rumbled on