ALPHA, Ill. — President Obama has decided to press Congress for a new round of stimulus spending and tax cuts as he seeks to address the great domestic policy quandary of his tenure: how to spur job ...

President Obama said at his press conference Monday that he wouldn't negotiate "ransom" with hostage-taking terrorists, which is how he is construing the House Republicans who are threatening to block ...

President Obama took to the bully pulpit Monday, a day after a White House meeting with congressional leaders failed to produce any progress on a debt-ceiling agreement, ratcheting up pressure on ...

It should come as no surprise that elected officials are lining up to blame the Obama administration for Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. government’s debt rating for the first time. Suggested ...