President Barack Obama is hoping to get Congress to grant $3.7 billion in emergency funding to go toward securing the border, a request brought on by the sudden increase in the number of unaccompanied ...

President Barack Obama's campaign promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center has switched from In the Works to Stalled and back again (and again). All that movement reflects a simple dynamic ...

Former president Barack Obama spoke at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston on Sunday night, where he called for courage following Congress’ efforts to repeal the signature legislation of his ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday he would not hesitate to bring former President Barack Obama before a congressional committee to testify on the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation by his ...

Then-U.S. President Barack Obama dropped more than 26,000 bombs on seven countries — Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen — in 2016 alone. We determined this by looking at data ...

At a Labor Day event in Wisconsin Monday, President Barack Obama said the U.S. economy is progressing, despite a stubborn Congress. "They say no to everything," Obama said, drawing "boos" from a ...

President Barack Obama's promise to create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants has faced a major roadblock due to resistance in Congress. He took steps on his own to give temporary status to ...

After the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities oover the weekend, there were questions about whether a president needs Congress to approve military actions. Even Republicans were criticizing ...

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill will urge President Barack Obama to sign an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from LGBT workplace discrimination in a letter expected to be sent later this ...

Busloads of veterans who fought in Vietnam and Korea and World War II arrived in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to tour memorials dedicated to their service. There was just one problem: Due to the ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., doesn’t want to get ahead of impending investigations into a deadly Sept. 2 strike on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, but argued that there is a precedent for ...