By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - After staking out an unapologetically progressive vision in his inaugural address l...

What is possibly the most striking thing about Obama's message is that he's going to run as a strong foreign policy president -- something that I can't for the life of me remember happening in the past 30 or 40 years.

WASHINGTON -- In a State of the Union speech focused tightly on jobs and the economy, President Barack Obama outlined his ideas for getting long-term ...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's second official State of the Union address presented the country with a broad vision of governance in an age of divide...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the Iraq war is coming to an end and the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan will begin in July. In...

WASHINGTON — The nation faces a crushing burden of debt and is on course for an economic disaster without dramatic action to wrestle the budget ...

Prior to President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening, the National Journal obtained a draft of the address from an unidentif...

WASHINGTON — The Tucson shootings produced a new State of the Union seating plan Tuesday, but no apparent new agreement on the thorniest issues ...

WASHINGTON -- Pleading for unity in a newly divided government, President Barack Obama implored Democratic and Republican lawmakers to rally behind hi...

WASHINGTON — Pleading for unity in a newly divided government, President Barack Obama implored Democratic and Republican lawmakers to rally behi...

WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama calls in his State of the Union address for a new focus on American competitiveness, he'll be striking ...

WASHINGTON — Standing before a nation clamoring for jobs, President Barack Obama will call for targeted spending to boost the economy but also f...

If Rep. Paul Ryan mentions health care at all on Tuesday, it is likely be the same old same old. After all, if they had any new ideas that could actually cut costs and improve quality, wouldn't we have heard about them already?

Who would have thought that over a year since the three presidential debates took place, McCain would look like the sensible sage, while Obama appears the one out of touch to the needs of mainstream America?

WASHINGTON — Seizing a chance to reconnect, President Barack Obama will use his first State of the Union address to try to persuade the people o...

The conservative movement is now officially dead. All that remains is for the pallbearers to carry the casket to its burial site. Obama's speech tonight will provide the funeral oration.