Company sources told Reuters that Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg were one of the many executives of top Internet companies who are set to attend a meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday over privacy, technology and intelligence issues.
The US government's latest statement about the violence in Ukraine indicated that the Obama administration could be drawing up an executive order to impose measures, which might include financial sanctions, on the Ukrainian government, said Voice of America.
The Senate narrowly voted on Tuesday a bill to advance a temporary extension of unemployment benefits to over one million people without jobs. The measure was sponsored by Nevada Republican Dean Heller and Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reed.
President Barack Obama addressed a litany of topics in his year-end press conference on Friday, CNN reported. As if this was the worst year of his presidency, Obama said there have been many successes. "Among those are an increase in wireless capacities in classrooms, a manufacturing hub in Youngstown, Ohio, that will "build on the renaissance we're seeing in manufacturing" and the fact that the U.S. is "producing more oil and natural gas in this country than we're importing,"
President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of eight people convicted of drug crimes who have each serve long prison times, the White House said on Thursday, CNN reported. The president "provided relief to people convicted of crack cocaine offenses under laws calling for strict mandatory sentences. The eight offenders have each served more than 15 years in prison, which the White House said amounted to 'unduly harsh sentences issued under and outdated sentencing regime."
A man who provided sign language interpretation on stage for Nelson Mandela's memorial service was a "fake," according to the national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa
President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to consider steps to alleviate income inequality, calling the income gap between America's rich and poor as a "defining challenge of our time," in a speech at the Twon Hall Education Arts and Recreation Campus, a nonprofit community center in Washington D.C. The event was hosted by the Center for American Progress.
The Democrat-controlled Senate invoked the so-called "nuclear option," ending the ability for minority Republicans to continue using filibusters to block some of President Barack Obama's judicial and executive nominations in a 52-48 vote on Thursday, CNN reported. Thursday's change affected presidential executive nominations such as ambassadors and agency heads, along with judicial nominations except for Supreme Court appointees,
The Obamas joined the Clintons in paying tribute to the late John F. Kennedy at the 35th President's grave at Arlington National Cemetery, The Associated Press reported. Obama and Clinton, along with First Lady Michelle Obama and former Secretary of State (and First Lady) Hillary Clinton, laid a large blue and white wreath, who was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Friday marks the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination.
Two U.S. Secret Service agents have been removed from President Barack Obama's security detail amid allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct, The Washington Post reported. They reportedly sent sexually inappropriate emails to a female colleague, while the same agent and another agent 'inadvertently left a bullet in a woman's hotel room, then demanded to be let back in."
President Barack Obama said Thursday in an interview with NBC News that he was "sorry" Americans are losing health insurance plans he repeatedly said they could keep and vowed to work with those who are finding themselves in a 'tough situation' as a result.
After taking hits from those on both sides of the political aisle, President Barack Obama continued to fine tune his promise that Americans who like their health plans would be able to keep them under the Affordable Care Act.
The National Security Agency (NSA) denied the German media report over the weekend that President Barack Obama had been told the agency told him in 2010 that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was spied up and had allowed it to continue, news reports said.
President Barack Obama installed James Comey as the seventh director of the FBI on Monday President Barack Obama installed James Comey as the seventh director of the FBI on Monday at a swearing-in ceremony in Washington, The Associated Press reported.
President Obama will address the nation Monday about technical glitches with the Affordable Care Act website, reportedly he will say that the problems are unacceptable.
President Barack Obama spoke to reporters, hours after the 16-day government shutdown caused "completely unnecessary damage on [the] economy," he said from the White House. The Senate voted 81-18 and the House of Representatives voted 285-144 to end the shutdown, which enables the government's power to borrow money
34-year-old William Swenson, a former U.S. Army captain whose actions in a deadly battle during the War in Afghanistan, received the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony on Tuesday, Sky News reported. President Barack Obama honored Capt. Swenson for his brave actions in a lengthy battle against the Taliban in the Ganjgal valley near the Pakistan border on September 8, 2009.
President Barack Obama urged Congress to reopen government and raise the debt limit immediately, while visiting the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Monday
President Barack Obama blamed House Speaker John Boehner for the government shutdown, which did not show any let up in its third day, The Associated Press reported. In addition to the House Speaker, Obama also blamed a small group of conservative Republicans who want "to extract concessions in exchange for passing a short term spending bill that would restart the partially stuttered government."
