Obama Arizona

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) is seeking to fill her political action committee's coffers with a new fundraising effort based on her recent high-profile...

Arianna appeared on "The McLaughlin Group" on Sunday, along with Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, and Monica Crowley, to discuss the Arizona shooting and ...

Blood libels aside, this week was dominated by talk of ratcheting down the tone of our political discourse and upping the civility. But the president went further, asking us to "use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations" and "sharpen our instincts for empathy." And he went further still and defined the challenge ahead: "to constantly widen the circle of our concern so that we bequeath the American Dream to future generations." The State of the Union is a great opportunity to put flesh and blood on this challenge. The president needs to address both of the ways his administration proposes to "widen the circle of our concern," and the ways citizens can sharpen their instincts for empathy by reaching out to those in need -- rebuilding lives and communities. Without this combined effort, bequeathing the American Dream to future generations will remain just an eloquent rhetorical flourish.

In his words of consolation and exhortation in Tucson, President Obama strove to achieve an effect that many Americans were looking for. He comforted. Yet he did not instruct.

WASHINGTON -- The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and the political response to it has become a litmus test of sorts for the emerging fi...

WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, briefing reporters for the first time since the Tucson shootings, was noncommittal when asked ...

WASHINGTON -- Sarah Palin took a lot of heat on Wednesday for her seven-minute-long statement on the shootings in Arizona, in which she mourned the tr...

It is when there is a human element to his presidency that Barack Obama tends to stand the tallest. And on Wednesday evening, as he spoke to 20,000-plus at a memorial service at the University of Arizona, there was, if nothing else, an emotional honesty to what he had to say. To a nation looking for clarity, Obama didn't pretend to have all the answers. There is, he noted, a tendency to demand "order" from "chaos," to try and "make sense out of that which seems senseless." Life doesn't always comply.

After the president expresses the sympathy of the nation, we hope he will seize the moment to lead. It is a significant moment for him and his presidency, not for political gain, but for defining what this country must believe and act on.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will travel to Tucson, Ariz., on Wednesday to attend a memorial service for the victims of last weekend's sh...

As you may have observed, the Obama administration -- like all administrations -- is pretty disdainful of polling. Speaking at a White House press br...

With Reporting By Julian Hattem During his daily press briefing on July 13, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was peppered with questions ab...

DETROIT — States have the authority to enforce immigration laws and protect their borders, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said Wednesday in ...

WASHINGTON — Republicans denounced the Obama administration's challenge of Arizona's new immigration law Tuesday, a fresh sign they may try to p...

President Obama is slated to deliver a major address on immigration reform this week as his Department of Justice puts the final touches on a lawsuit ...

PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is telling President Barack Obama she's anxious for details on how his administration's plans to tighten borde...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama criticized Arizona's tough immigration bill as irresponsible Friday and said his administration is examining...

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama says the decision to boycott Arizona over its tough new law cracking down on immigration is for private citizens to de...

Barnes is not alone in embarrassing Arizonans this year. Governor Jan Brewer (R) called the capitol a "hell hole."

Obama's planned speech is controversial across the home state of Obama's former political rival. Some schools are even considering not broadcasting the speech.

A man was spotted Monday afternoon carrying a semi-automatic assault rifle and a pistol at a pro-health care reform rally next to the Veterans of Fore...