Barack Obama

President Barack Obama accused insurance companies of placing profits over people and said Republicans ignored long-festering problems when they held power as he sought to build support for swift passage of health care legislation stalled in Congress.

President Barack Obama urged Congress today to vote "up or down" on sweeping health care legislation in the next few weeks, endorsing a plan that denies Senate Republicans the right to kill the bill by stalling with a filibuster.

Poll results, congressional head counts and federal deficits aren't the only numbers President Barack Obama has to worry about. Now, he's trying to walk off a marginally high cholesterol count.

United States President Barack Obama hasn't kicked the smoking habit, takes anti-inflammatory medication to relieve chronic tendinitis in his left knee and should eat better to lower his cholesterol, his team of doctors concluded after the 48-year-old's first medical checkup as commander in chief.

The White House says President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama will meet at the White House this month.

Declaring "I don't quit,'" an embattled President Barack Obama vowed in his first State of the Union address tonight to make job growth his topmost priority and urged a divided Congress to boost the still-ailing economy with a new burst of stimulus spending.

President Barack Obama abruptly ended his golf outing and sped in his motorcade to his compound today after he learned a child of a friend was injured while playing on the beach.

Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defence of war.

The couple who crashed President Barack Obama's first state dinner are peddling their story to broadcast networks for hundreds of thousands of dollars, a television executive says.

President Barack Obama is considering setting a provisional target for cutting the United States' huge greenhouse gas emissions, removing the greatest single obstacle to a landmark global agreement to fight climate change, writes Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington.