The first summer vacation of President Barack Obama's second term is taking him back to Martha's Vineyard, the well-heeled Massachusetts island he avoided during last year's re-election campaign.
President Barack Obama says he's encouraging Russian President Vladimir Putin to, quote, "think forward instead of backwards" in strained relations with the United States.
President Barack Obama talked about the terror threat that has closed 19 US embassies and expressed disappointment at the Russians for granting temporary asylum to Edward Snowden during an appearance on NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
President Barack Obama is applauding a bipartisan Senate vote to make it less expensive for college students to borrow money for classes, housing and books.
Despite an intensifying pace, little progress is being reported in talks on averting automatic spending cuts and tax increases that economists fear could send the U.S. economy off a "fiscal cliff."
President Barack Obama is urging Congress to pass an extension of tax cuts for middle class families, saying a tax increase for them would be like a "lump of coal" for Christmas.
Republican congressional leaders are accusing Democrats of moving the nation closer to the "fiscal cliff," by refusing to outline possible spending cuts.