President Barack Obama said Tuesday night that while he wants to punish Bashar al Assad's use of chemical weapons, he said in a primetime speech that he would put off a military strike and work with Russia, China to coax the Syrian dictator to relinquish its chemical weapons,
On the same day President Obama is expected to address the American public about a potential military strike on the Assad regime in Syria, a White House official said the the U.S. commander in chief has agreed to discussions at the United Nations Security Council, which would involve Russia's proposal to secure Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles.
The five permanent UN Security Council members met again on Thursday to discuss the appropriate response to last week's chemical attack. The meeting lasted for just under an hour. US, British, French, Chinese and Russian diplomats declined to comment to reporters after it.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that America was confident the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapon attack near Damascus last week. Obama said the use of chemical weapons affected the United States' national interests, raising the specter of whether military strikes on Bashar al-Assad's regime may be imminent
The Obama administration is building the public case for a military strike on Syria by releasing documents on last week's alleged chemical weapons attack, FoxNews.com reported on Tuesday. On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry declared the evidence of a chemical weapons attack in Syria as "undeniable."
President Obama hailed New York and the U.S.'s comeback from the housing bust on Tuesday, saying it was time to reduce the federal role and risk in the mortgage market "to make sure this kind of crisis we went through never happens again."
President Barack Obama shared new insights about his health care law on Thursday, educating Americans about what rebates they should expect as the law takes effect.
Interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans doubled on July 1 from 3.4% to 6.8% because the U.S. Congress failed to reach an agreement on legislation. As a result, a renewed battle between Democrats and Republicans for a lack of a good plan has also resurfaced.
President Barack Obama honored the military families on the south lawn of the White House on Thursday, continuing a tradition of honoring the country's armed forces on Independence Day.
Sharp divisions in ideologies over how to handle the civil war in Syria led to a chilly encounter between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G8 Summit on Monday.
President Obama defended the U.S. policy's long-standing Internet and phone monitoring programs as valuable tools in an effort to fight terrorism, deflecting criticism that government intrusion to people's phone calls has been too overreaching.
The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The disclosure to Congress comes before the president is due to make a major national security speech, with plans to pledge more transparency to Congress in his counter-terrorism policy.
Philadelphia police officer Richard DeCoatsworth, who was once hailed as a hero and saluted by President Obama, has been arrested and is in police custody after he allegedly held two women captive in his home.
President Barack Obama said that he was "angry" at IRS officials who targeted conservative groups for scrutiny, announcing that his administration sought and accepted Steven Miller's resignation as the interim commissioner.
The Justice Department on Tuesday defended its decision to subpoena phone records from Associated Press bureaus and reporters, saying the requests were limited and necessary to investigate a leak of classified information regarding a severe threat to national security,
Striking an optimistic tone, President Obama said that the Mexico is ready to take "its rightful place in the world," moving past the drug battles and violence, which its relationship with the United States,
President Barack Obama said Thursday he was comfortable with his administration's decision to allow over-the-counter purchases of a morning-after pill for anyone 15 and older.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking the Libyan people for help identifying three individuals who were on the grounds of the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi when it was attacked on Sept. 11, 2012. The attack resulted in the death of Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans.
President Obama, in a news press conference to the White House Press Corps, vowed to close Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba - an unkept promise he had in his first term in office.
James Everett Dutschke, a 41-year-old martial arts instructor appeared in federal court on Monday to face charges in connection with mailing letters containing the deadly poison ricin to President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials. Dutschke responded briefly to a judge's questions at the hearing in Oxford, Mississippi, on whether he understood the charges against him. The judge then ordered a preliminary hearing be held on Thursday when prosecutors will present more detailed evidence in the case.
The U.S. Senate defeated a compromise plan in a vote 54-46 to expand background checks on firearms sale as well as a proposal to ban some semi-automatic weapons modeled after military assault weapons.
