President Obama singled out Hollywood's creative class as a beacon of hope amid a sluggish economic recovery, but lamented Tuesday in a speech here ... Welcome to the White House.” ...

Obama’s mixed-race background allowed him to speak bluntly to black and white Americans. “This was the speech he was born to give,” Shesol says. Obama urged whites to empathize with his ...

Obama’s speech was brave ... There’s a path for Barack Obama still to the White House. Given his background, given that there’s pieces of America residing in him, he must now show the ...

Obama said the FBI will hire more employees to work on the national background-check system; White House officials ... Watch the full speech: Obama compared the push for greater gun control ...

The White House says President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night will be non-traditional. What that means: Obama will be talking about himself, not asking Congress for a ...

In a nearly 40-minute speech, Obama honored President Joe ... to prepare for an arduous path to maintaining the White House. For Obama, it was a moment that brought him full circle.

President Barack Obama unveiled a new set ... in a press conference Tuesday from the White House. The efforts largely center on more stringent background checks. Here’s a full transcript of ...

The White House unveiled gun control measures on Monday that require more gun sellers to get licenses and more gun buyers to undergo background checks, moves President Barack Obama said were well ...

Obama’s second Galesburg address comes after his speech at the University ... press writes from them.” What the White House sees as useful historical background Republicans view as ...

An emotional President Barack Obama made a plea to curb the nation's rash of gun violence Monday in a city that has taken steps of its own in recent years to combat the epidemic. Speaking in ...

I thought back to twenty-six months earlier when Senate Republicans blocked a vote on universal background ... my job as Obama’s chief speechwriter, I agonized over every speech I drafted ...