BARACK OBAMA

Following an extended game of chicken, the Obama administration granted China and Singapore an exception to the Iranian oil sanctions, senior White House officials said Thursday.

The FBI will work with state and local law enforcement to determine whether the aggressive Waldo Canyon Fire was a result of criminal activity.

For the first time since Bush v. Gore 12 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court was news around the world.

House Republicans have already scheduled a July 11 vote to repeal the health care law.

The Court current consists of nine justices, six men and three women. By racial background, seven are white, one is black and one is Latino.

Declaring that the highest court in the land has now spoken, President Barack Obama vowed to press ahead with implementing the sweeping health care reform law whose constitutionality the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed on Thursday.

Both the uninsured and those who already have health coverage stand to benefit from the upholding of the Affordable Care Act.

The U.S. Supreme court Thursday ruled to uphold the controversial health care law proposed by President Barack Obama. Just two hours after the historic decision, President Obama is set to make speak live from the White House at 12:15 p.m. ET. Live stream the entire speech from the White House website.

While Republicans and most conservatives might well be disappointed by Thursday?s Supreme Court decision to uphold President Barack Obama?s Affordable Health Act, one of their own is the person of the day: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

The sharply-divided U.S. Supreme Court Thursday that upheld President Barack Obama's signature public policy initiative took most of official Washington by surprise.

By upholding the individual mandate that is the health care law's linchpin, the Supreme Court has rebuffed Republicans who had hoped to accomplish through the judiciary their goal of dismantling the act.

The Supreme Court health care decision confirming the constitutionality of the president's signature legislative achievement and expanding insurance to millions of low-income Americans under Medicaid will provide a large influx of new customers and notable revenue opportunity for Medicaid-focused managed-care organizations (MCOs).

The Supreme Court?s ruling to uphold the Affordable Health Care Act will likely benefit the technology industry, from computer services providers like Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) to medical electronics makers like Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A).

Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's liberal judges to uphold the law's individual mandate.

The Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate, crucial to Obama's signature healthcare law overhaul, in a victory for the Obama administration.

Evacuees in Colorado Springs are waiting and watching Wednesday from hotel rooms, homes of friends and emergency shelters to see if their homes will go up in flames.

Colorado's devastating Waldo Canyon wildfire that has burnt down over 6,500 acres of dry timber since Saturday grew ferocious on Wednesday, spreading to an area of 67 square kilometers (26 square miles), while increasing threat for over 20,000 homes and other buildings.

Worries about present-day issues overshadowed unsavory history this week as Russian President Vladimir Putin made a 24-hour whirlwind visit to Israel.

Maybe President Barack Obama just shouldn't talk about sports. Ever. On Wednesday he made his second major flub in as many days when he congratulated the Miami Heats during a campaign fundraiser speech in Florida.

A Kevin Youkilis joke by President Barack Obama elicited boos from a Boston crowd during a campaign speech Monday.

A federal court has defended the Obama administration's unprecedented push to limit greenhouse gas emissions, laying down a marker in the debate over the limits of environmental regulation.