Ben Feller

President Barack Obama is moving ahead with tough new sanctions aimed at squeezing Iran's oil exports after determining there is enough crude on world markets to take the step without harming U.S. allies.

President Obama, grappling with a political firestorm, today unveiled a birth control compromise that he said would both protect religious liberties and ensure that women have access to free contraception.

President Obama is using tonight's State of the Union address to draw a stark election-year line with Republicans over how to keep the United States from eroding further into a nation of haves and have-nots.

America's long and deeply unpopular war in Iraq will be over by year's end and all U.S. troops "will definitely be home for the holidays," President Obama declared today. The eight-year war cost the U.S. military heavily: More than 4,400 members killed, more than 32,000 wounded.

United against Barack Obama, Senate Republicans voted Tuesday night to kill the jobs package the president had spent weeks campaigning for across the country.