The White House is kicking off its Jobs Summit today, bringing together business executives, finance experts, economists, small business owners and labor leaders to discuss ways to spark job creation. President Obama announced the summit last month, after the latest jobs report showed that unemployment shot up to 10.2 percent...

As the Senate gears up for floor debate on its health care reform bill, Illinois Senator Roland Burris says he's through making concessions. "I've already compromised because, you see, I was for a single payer system," he says plainly from his Capitol Hill office. Now he insists that he will...

When Air Force One touches down in Ghana on Friday evening, it's sure to be another goosebump moment of the Obama presidency. The rich symbolism in Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan immigrant, visiting Africa as the President of the United States, and Michelle Obama, the descendent of enslaved...

In the opening remarks of his news conference on Tuesday, President Obama mentioned a climate change bill working its way through the House of Representatives, hailing it as "legislation that will finally spark a clean energy transformation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and confront the carbon pollution...

Vice President Joe Biden has been hustling to plug the Recovery Act. On Thursday he went to Pennsylvania and Kansas, for the groundbreakings of bridge and highway projects funded by federal stimulus money, and Friday it was Kalamazoo, Michigan, for a ceremony marking interchange reconstruction.

The trips are the...