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Republicans tried to send a direct message to President Barack Obama during his first-ever Twitter town hall by crashing the event with a flurry of comments on the social networking site.

Dan Balz, the veteran political reporter for the Washington Post who has spent more than three decades at the paper, will become its first ever “chief correspondent,” Marcus Brauchli, The Post's executive editor, said Wednesday.

After inviting Congressional leaders to a Thursday meeting at the White House, President Barack Obama heralded the progress Democrats and Republicans had made towards achieving a deal to raise the debt ceiling.

In a reversal, the Obama administration announced on Tuesday that it would begin to send condolence letters to families of soldiers who died by suicide.

President Barack Obama will be answering questions on Wednesday during his first Twitter town hall meeting. The meeting is supposed to be focusing on economy and job related issues and queries.

The only Democratic U.S. president re-elected since FDR's New Deal, and the last one to register a budget surplus in the past 30 years, has no-holds-barred advice for President Barack Obama regarding the debt talks: 'Don't blink.'

On July 4th morning, President Barack Obama allegedly died from two gunshot wounds while campaigning in Iowa, according to a series of six messages on the Fox News Twitter account, which was hacked by a group that identified themselves as Script Kiddies. In reality, President Barack Obama celebrated Independence Day at the White House, and praised military service members who have served and sacrificed for the United States in protecting the freedoms of its citizens.

U.S. President Barack Obama thanked the US military service members during a barbecue on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington as the nation celebrated its independence on July 4th, with a national holiday.

A video of President Barack Obama filmed in the White House and included in a fundraising e-mail sent to supporters is not legal, two election law experts say, CNSNews.com reported.

Senior political analyst Mark Halperin has been suspended indefinitely by MSNBC for using vulgar comments about President Obama on the news networks' Morning Joe show.

In the most memorable Fourth of July recall, here is the transcript, the significance and media excerpts of interpretations of President John F. Kennedy's 1962 speech in the Independence Hall.

In order to take a break from government service, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is considering leaving his post after President Barack Obama and Congress reach an agreement on raising the national debt ceiling.

In an attempt to put it all on the table, the U.S. Senate's top Republican invited President Obama to a GOP lunch at the Capitol to discuss the ongoing dispute over the debt ceiling and related issues, but the White House on Thursday declined the invitation.

MSNBC's senior political analyst Mark Halperin was suspended early on Thursday morning after he called U.S. President Barack Obama kind of a d*** on the network's Morning Joe show but did MSNBC do the right thing in suspending Haplerin indefinitely?

Senators stalled on budget talks will have to miss Fourth of July festivities as the chamber’s top Democrat signaled there will be no recess.

U.S. Senators stalled on budget talks will have to miss Fourth of July festivities, as the chamber’s top Democrat signaled there will be no recess.

The United States will keep applying the utmost pressure on al-Qaeda, even after its former leader Osama bin Laden was removed, according to comments made by U.S. President Barack Obama during a White House press conference.

President Barack Obama praised New York’s passage of same-sex marriage but refused to take a hard line on the issue at an East Room press conference at the White House Wednesday.

A controversial plan that would have “mystery shoppers” pose as patients to investigate how hard it is for patients to obtain primary care was been nixed by the Obama Administration, Tuesday.

As President Barack Obama waded into talks aimed at striking a compromise on raising the debt ceiling, Democrats and Republicans dug in on their increasingly acrimonious standoff over how taxes will factor into a deal.

While blasting President Barack Obama for wasting tax dollars and frequenting the politically correct line, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, had a promise for Granite State voters: she'd run the White House with a titanium spine.