President Obama came out in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage for the first time in an ABC News interview on Wednesday.
Sara Dover
May 09, 2012
Is President Barack Obama going to endorse gay marriage during an interview Wednesday? All signs point to yes, as a crescendo of events in recent days and months have made it nearly impossible for him to keep avoiding a clarification of his views until after the election.
Connor Adams Sheets
May 09, 2012
President Obama is disappointed that North Carolina passed an amendment to its state constitution banning same-sex marriage, according to a statement from his campaign.
Jeremy White
May 09, 2012
A new poll out Tuesday finds that half of Americans support legal recognition of gay marriage. It's the second year in a row that more Americans favor than oppose the idea in the Gallup poll.
Dan Rivoli
May 08, 2012
Vice President Joe Biden received a warm welcome from Conservative rabbis Tuesday as he sought to reassure American Jews about President Barack Obama's commitment to Israel and defend his diplomatic strategy with Iran.
Sara Dover
May 08, 2012
Voters in three big U.S. states Tuesday will weigh in on several closely watched campaigns. Here is what's at stake
Dan Rivoli
May 08, 2012
In contrast to President Obama, the chairman of the Democratic Caucus said House Democrats overwhelming support same-sex marriage.
Ashley Portero
May 08, 2012
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng said Monday from his hospital bed in Beijing that he is confident he will be allowed to travel to the U.S. with his family, despite being denied visits from American officials for several days.
Ryan Villarreal
May 07, 2012
Senior Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod downplayed Vice President Joe Biden's vocal embrace of gay marriage, saying President Obama's shared the same beliefs.
Jeremy White
May 07, 2012
And we're off! Like the starting gunshot during Saturday night's Kentucky derby, the Obama campaign has signaled that the general election has begun.
Sara Dover
May 06, 2012
Vice President Joe Biden offered a tacit endorsement of gay marriage on Meet the Press on Sunday, a series of remarks the White House and Obama campaign scrambled to walk back in a fit of apparent cognitive dissonance.
Joseph Orovic
May 06, 2012
The Romney campaign is denying that Richard Grenell -- the foreign policy spokesperson who quit Tuesday after just two weeks on the job -- felt pressured to resign because he was openly gay.
Sara Dover
May 02, 2012
As the Obama administration uses the approaching one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death to tout the president's decision to launch a strike on the former Al Qaeda leader, Republicans have accused the administration of unnecessarily politicizing the issue.
Jeremy White
Apr 30, 2012
If the U.S. presidential election was held today, President Barack Obama could easily lose. Fortunately for Obama -- and, by extension, for the Democratic Party -- the election is not today: it's 7 months from now.
Joseph Lazzaro
Apr 29, 2012
Romney campaign calls it sad that the Obama campaign is using an event that unified our country to once again divide us.
Sara Dover
Apr 27, 2012
Just days before the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's killing, Vice President Joe Biden directly appealed to students while boasting President Barack Obama's foreign policy achievements and slamming presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney as out of touch.
Sara Dover
Apr 26, 2012
Joe Biden literally said the President has a big stick, I promise you on Thursday. Here's videos of 5 other gaffes he's made as VP.
Connor Adams Sheets
Apr 26, 2012
Sharpening the edges of an election-year fight, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ari., denounced as imaginary claims that Republicans are conducting a war on women.
Jeremy White
Apr 26, 2012
U.S. regulators are investigating major U.S. movie studios' dealings with China as the entertainment companies try to get a greater foothold in one of the fastest-growing movie markets in the world.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 24, 2012
Election 2012? Democrats are already cheering for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Sara Dover
Apr 18, 2012
Hours after President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden published their 2011 tax returns, Mitt Romney announced he has requested an extension for his own filing.
Sara Dover
Apr 13, 2012
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle paid an effective tax rate of about 20.5 percent in 2011, but would like to be paying more in order to make the U.S. tax system more fair.
Jacey Fortin
Apr 13, 2012