BARACK OBAMA

The new Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board could have more influence than many are currently giving it credit for.

The debt ceiling debate's comeback around October will pressure House Republicans to prioritize, leaving immigration reform aside.

Jobs? Unemployment? Surveillance? That's not what many members of the U.S. Congress heard from constituents over the July 4 break.

Amanda Bynes took to Twitter to say she had a broken nose just hours after calling the Obamas ugly.

Worsening relations with Hamid Karzai are pushing Obama to withdraw US forces faster and leave none behind, reports say.

At a conference offering details on his second-term agenda, Obama focused on the importance of using technology to improve government services.

The Twitterverse is divided as to whether Amanda Bynes is racist, crazy or just starving for attention after calling the president and first lady "ugly."

The ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood-backed government hasn't begun to solve Egypt's many economic problems. Here's what needs to happen -- fast.

After years of hosting her own daytime show and increasing visibility, Fox News Channel is moving Megyn Kelly to prime time.

According to quarterly ratings released this week by Nielsen, MSNBC’s average primetime viewers were down 16 percent. Rachel Maddow logged her lowest month since her show debuted.

The administration has postponed the Obamacare deadline for employers to insure all full-time workers until 2015.

The reported investigation of Gen. James Cartwright over leaks about U.S.-Israeli cyber-attacks on Iran seems very curious.

Immigration reform passed in the Senate may not fare as well in the House, where the two parties could not be more at odds.

The Florida Republican's work on the 2013 immigration reform bill could make half of Obama's Latino supporters change sides.

Ecuador’s president says helping Snowden was a “mistake,” as the NSA leaker steps up efforts to leave Moscow airport.

The names of 19 firefighters killed in the Yarnell Hill Wildfire in Arizona have been released. Most were under 30.

The Chinese investment vehicle CAD Fund will ramp up its investments in Africa to build markets and spur development.

Nelson Mandela is widely regarded as a beloved peace icon, while Yasser Araft remains largely a pariah outside the Arab and Muslim world.

The George W. Bush Institute in Dallas and the White House both have declared that the concurrent trips to Africa by two US presidents was simply coincidental

Obama pays a visit to the Mandelas after a town hall with South African youths that was met with protests.

Worsening clashes between supporters and foes of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood claimed their first American victim. He was 21.