BARACK OBAMA

The Senate Republican leader says the “political left” bugged his office after a recording was made public on Tuesday.

Senators said they were near a deal on background checks, while Reid is planning a showdown vote for Thursday.

A new CNN poll shows Obama with high approval rating, but on guns and the budget deficit -- not so much.

As two senators -- one Democrat and one Republican -- work on a background check compromise, more conservative Republicans join a gun control filibuster.

Is the gun control bill doomed in Congress? Perhaps: The number of Republicans ready to oppose the Senate Democrats' measure is growing.

A group of well-known celebrities have written an open letter to President Obama, asking him to reform prisons and enact changes to the nation's drug policies.

Amid a growing GOP threat to filibuster the Senate's gun control bill, Obama goes for the heart with Sandy Hook parents as reinforcement.

Lindsey Graham is encouraged by entitlement cuts in Obama's 2014 budget, but Speaker Boehner opposes holding entitlements hostage to taxes.

President Obama released the following statement in response to the passing of former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher:

Cuba's ex-leader says situation poses "one of the most serious dangers of nuclear war" since Cuban Missile Crisis.

John Kerry is back in the Middle East, trying to restore ties between Israel and Turkey.

Support is growing in Congress for House of Representatives 499, officially known as the Ending Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2013.

Michelle Obama accidentally refers to herself as a "busy single mother" in a TV interview.

During a fundraiser in California on Thursday, President Barack Obama called Kamala Harris "by far the best looking attorney general" and raised a few eyebrows from pundits.

President Obama is expected to offer adjusting Social Security payments to reduce spending growth, in exchange for raising taxes.

Historically, more oil spills happen via train transport than via pipelines, according to a study.

Washington’s reluctance to recognize the fundamental change under way in the Turkey of Erdogan shouldn't surprise us.

President Obama is cutting his own salary, but don't worry. He'll be fine.

North Korea has been notching up its rhetoric against the U.S., threatening nuclear attack, declaring a "state of war" with South Korea and continuing to mobilize missile forces. Is it all just for show or is the country really going to attack?

African and American forces have suspended their operation to rout the LRA, just the U.S. offered a bounty of $5 million for Joseph Kony.

President Obama is making the gesture to show solidarity with furloughed federal workers.