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The Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate, crucial to Obama's signature healthcare law overhaul, in a victory for the Obama administration.

Evacuees in Colorado Springs are waiting and watching Wednesday from hotel rooms, homes of friends and emergency shelters to see if their homes will go up in flames.

Colorado's devastating Waldo Canyon wildfire that has burnt down over 6,500 acres of dry timber since Saturday grew ferocious on Wednesday, spreading to an area of 67 square kilometers (26 square miles), while increasing threat for over 20,000 homes and other buildings.

Worries about present-day issues overshadowed unsavory history this week as Russian President Vladimir Putin made a 24-hour whirlwind visit to Israel.

Maybe President Barack Obama just shouldn't talk about sports. Ever. On Wednesday he made his second major flub in as many days when he congratulated the Miami Heats during a campaign fundraiser speech in Florida.

A Kevin Youkilis joke by President Barack Obama elicited boos from a Boston crowd during a campaign speech Monday.

A federal court has defended the Obama administration's unprecedented push to limit greenhouse gas emissions, laying down a marker in the debate over the limits of environmental regulation.

The president even told his senior aides that he had ?the least power to prevent? the potential collapse of Pakistan.

The Republican chairman of a House panel is accusing President Obama of either obscuring his involvement in the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking program or improperly invoking executive privilege

The presumptive Republican nominee is caught between conservatives who would like to see immigration laws more strictly enforced and Hispanics who are wary of his position, and as a result he has been exceedingly careful when it comes to immigration.

U.S. representative Jesse Jackson Jr. has gone on leave due to exhaustion. The son of the famous civil rights leader has been out medical leave for two weeks.

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has come up with the Obama Event Registry, where supporters of the president can register so guests of their wedding, Bar Mitzvah or other occasions can contribute to the campaign in lieu of gifts to the person or people of honor.

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney both used the Supreme Court's Monday ruling on Arizona's controversial immigration law to reinforce their positions on immigration.

A new survey suggests that Republicans are convincing voters to reject Obama's reform even when they like much of what is in it, such as allowing children to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26.

The political world is eagerly awaiting not one but two Supreme Court verdicts that could reshape the political landscape for the Obama administration.

The U.S. Supreme Court will announce its health care decision on Thursday, after making three major rulings on Monday.

Only one-third of Americans know U.S. President Barack Obama is a Christian, according to Gallup, which found 44 percent of respondents could not identify the president's faith.

Some controversial pictures that were taken at the White House are circulating on the Internet. Images of prominent gay activists making obscene gestures toward paintings of anti-gay presidents have surfaced on Facebook.

Miliband not only took a swipe at his predecessors, but at the same time kicked one of the touchiest of subjects for any Labour supporter.

In a stirring speech to Latino officials reminiscent of his 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama heralded a new policy shielding young immigrants from deportation and called on the U.S. Congress to pass immigration reform.

If the presidential race were determined by who women think will make a better sugar daddy, President Barack Obama would trounce Mitt Romney, according to a survey from the hookup site SeekingArrangement.com that found women want Obama to be their sugar daddy by a 3-to-1 margin over the former Massachusetts governor.