President Barack Obama's drive for U.S. healthcare reform suffered another setback on Thursday when Senate Finance Committee leaders said the panel would not vote on a compromise plan before senators leave for a month-long August recess next week.
President Barack Obama played bartender-in-chief on Thursday at a beer summit of the main players in a racially charged case that he hoped would be a positive lesson in a national dialogue on race.
Stock index futures edged higher on Friday as investors bet that key economic data will show the economic slump is ebbing.
Stock index futures edged higher on Friday as investors bet that key economic data will show the economic slump is ebbing.
Conditions in the U.S. construction industry have improved since President Barack Obama signed the economic stimulus plan into law in February, but employment in the battered sector needs more help, an industry trade group said on Thursday.
The U.S. government will not suspend its $1 billion cash for clunkers auto sales incentive even though confirmed sales and pending transactions neared the limit of 250,000 vehicles much sooner than expected, an Obama administration official said on Thursday night.
U.S. President Barack Obama, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley sit down for a beer at 6 p.m. Thursday afternoon in the Rose Garden, White House.
The U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday the so-called beer summit is a beer not a summit.
At 6pm this evening President Barack Obama will have a somewhat different meeting on his agenda as he meets with the two men he joined last week at the center of an uproar over race in America for a few cold ones outside the president's oval office.
With polls showing public support for President Barack Obama's healthcare reform waning, Senate negotiators hit another snag on Thursday when a key Finance Committee Republican said the panel would not be ready to vote until September.
U.S. lawmakers debating a huge overhaul of the nation's healthcare system are increasingly focusing on proposals that healthcare cooperatives could be formed to help provide medical coverage.
The president Obama will invite Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley to join him for a beer in hopes of defusing the racial dispute.
U.S. President Barack Obama, reflecting on government support for the financial sector, said it is dangerous for the economy when companies believe they are too big to fail.
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that General Motors Co [GM.UL] and Chrysler Group were companies worth saving, but he expects both to repay their government loans.
Hope and jobs are in short supply in Ohio eight months after President Barack Obama won the recession-battered state in the 2008 election with promises of a better future.
Healthcare and clean energy rank as bright spots in a bleak U.S. jobs market and both stand to generate even more employment under plans put forward by President Barack Obama.
Public support for President Barack Obama's healthcare reform is waning, polls showed on Thursday as Congress wrangles over how to overhaul an industry that accounts for one-sixth of the U.S. economy.
Democrats broke a logjam in President Barack Obama's drive to revamp the costly healthcare system on Wednesday when a group of party conservatives accepted a compromise that allowed a reform bill to advance in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Weak demand for new civilian aircraft and defense equipment pulled U.S. orders for costly durable goods down in June but the underlying trend toward an improved pace of manufacturing activity continued.
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that General Motors Co and Chrysler Group were companies worth saving, but he expects both to repay their government loans.
President Barack Obama launched a spirited defense of his economic policies on Wednesday, declaring that they had helped save the country from plunging into a depression.
A senior U.S. lawmaker said on Wednesday that it may be time for the government to regulate companies that provide online file-sharing services after a number of people managed to access FBI files, medical records and Social Security numbers.
