BARACK OBAMA

Officials are trying to handle an influx of new arrivals, many of them unaccompanied minors from Central America, that has crowded facilities in Texas and led to efforts to move some to other states.

John Boehner wants to sue President Obama for bypassing the House with executive orders, but Obama has his own criticisms for the Republican-controlled body.

The findings emerged after President Barack Obama met with acting Veterans Secretary Sloan Gibson and the White House official assigned to investigate the agency, Rob Nabors.

The world's largest furniture maker said that it does not plan to raise in-store prices to accommodate the hike in wages.

A Commerce Department report had many wondering whether the U.S. is headed back to the worst economic times since the Great Depression.

Iran and the U.S. are both working with the Iraqi government to repel ISIS fighters but deny they are working together.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that would speed approval of the controversial pipeline project.

John Kerry urged leaders of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Tuesday to stand with Baghdad in the face of the onslaught.

ISIS, in a short span of a few days, has taken over vast swathes of Iraq's north and now controls the country's western border.

Rep. Rangel beat his challenger, Dominican-American Adriano Espaillat, despite his district's changed demographics.

House Speaker John Boehner may be planning to file a lawsuit against President Barack Obama' for his executive actions.

As Jeh Johnson assured U.S. lawmakers the Obama administration is doing everything it can, the crisis was deepening the stark battle lines between Republicans and Democrats in Washington, D.C.

Michelle Obama reportedly said, during a recent event in Washington, that the U.S. is ready for a woman president.

In Iraq ISIS has moved fast to seize control of large parts of the country, while violence in eastern Ukraine has raged on for months.

Public demand to help secure the release of a U.S. Marine in a Mexican jail was on the rise Monday evening.

A petition that one can only assume is a joke is calling on the White House to invade Portugal in revenge for the Europeans' late goal against Team USA.

Obama called on Congress to pass legislation to protect pregnant women in the workplace. Check out your state's laws protecting pregnant women.

Without Congress, Obama can do little to extend the meager family-leave benefits the United States offers it workers.

Years of legal feuding came to an end Monday when the Obama administration grudgingly turned over the Barron memo, which contains the legal justification for a drone strike that killed Anwar Al-Awlaki.

Indonesian retailers are cashing in on the Iraq crisis by selling ISIS merchandise, including "We Are All ISIS" T-shirts, online.

But the high court also said the EPA had wrongly stretched the Clean Air Act program for new and expanded stationary sources.