WASHINGTON -- In a broad and moving speech Friday, President Barack Obama described gun violence as only one part of a web of economic and social chal...

President Barack Obama's father told federal immigration officials in 1961 that he planned to put his unborn son up for adoption, The Boston Globe rep...

A simple message on Father's Day by President Obama has some religious right organizations up in arms. The part making them see red is the acknowledgment of gay fathers.

I understand Barack Obama. It is not always easy, but I do. I can even relate to him. Of course, we weren't supposed to need to. He was supposed to be...

Both men have written strange, searching books about their fathers. It is in their pages that we can find the clearest -- and most haunting -- clues to their potential presidencies.

Barack Obama's dad was such an important but absent figure in his life that he devoted his first book, Dreams From My Father, to the search for detail...

Watch a package about Barack Obama's Kenyan grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, from Al Jazeera. Watch more clips at Link TV. Read about and watch...