BARACK OBAMA

The nuclear budget request comes at a time when the nation is facing tight fiscal controls due to its large budget deficit.

Could a single person defeat the Keystone pipeline?

The president said he isn't brooding about failing to pass immigration reform in 2013, but that it's among his efforts for next year.

One of the last taxpayer-guaranteed export-import incentives of the year benefits GE, Caterpillar.

Before heading off on a Hawaii vacation, President Barack Obama will hold a news conference today and take questions.

Disappearing inflation, controversial handshakes and toilet paper wars: It all happened in 2013 in Latin America.

Including Yellen's, 10 nominations are awaiting Senate confirmation, and many of these could be pushed to after the holidays.

Baucus is expected to keep a lower profile than his predecessors did.

Tea Party Patiot Brian Schwanke, a Michigan resident, faces two federal child porn-related charges.

Analysts say the veteran Democratic Montana senator, if confirmed as ambassador to China, would be a surprising but sensible choice.

Chairman Bernanke defended his eight-year track record at the Fed in his last press conference.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings jokingly offered the president a cameo on the political show, but there are plenty of reasons it could really happen.

Ex-politicians who earn money from speeches are not violating any laws – although questions of ethics and integrity may abound.

James Costello, a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing who was injured in the blasts, proposed to a nurse he met during his rehabilitation.

Snowden continues his fight against political espionage that he interprets as violating civil and human rights.

U.S. Rep. Ryan says Republicans don't want to leave the debt ceiling negotiation empty-handed. The White House says they will have to.

The Connecticut town is left to recall Sandy Hook school slaughter in peace.

Thamasanqa Jantjie, the man exposed as a fake sign language interpreter and revealed as a schizophrenic, has a lengthy history of criminal charges, including murder.

As the second leg of the Keystone XL Pipeline approaches completion, the project faces growing pressure from opposition groups.

In a new ad, Spirit Airlines pokes fun at the Obama selfie flap and the headlines about Michelle Obama's reaction.

Loretta Fuddy released copies of Obama’s original birth certificate to help put to rest theories that the president was foreign-born.