President Barack Obama’s deputies are fitting Gov. Mitt Romney up as a heartless and greedy investor, eager to strip-mine companies and throw workers onto the street.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's jobs council called on Tuesday for a corporate tax overhaul, expanded domestic drilling and new regulatory reforms, a set of proposals unlikely to provide a quick fix for high unemployment or gain much traction in an election year. A panel of top U.S. business leaders advising Obama - whose re-election chances could hinge on whether he can boost ...

President Barack Obama pledged Tuesday to cooperate closely with Jordan, a key ally in the Middle East, in order to push Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate a peace accord in a "serious fashion," even as a fresh attempt at talks shows little signs of progress.

President Obama is hailing the World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals as heroes -- and calling them the 'greatest comeback team in the history of baseball.'

US President Barack Obama vowed to redouble efforts to force a change of regime in Syria as the UN Security Council struggled to agree on a resolution on Damascus's crackdown on dissent.

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday decried continued and "unacceptable" levels of violence in Syria and pledged to redouble international efforts to force President Bashar al-Assad to step down.

President Obama promoted the deputy director of his budget office, Jeffrey Zients, to be acting director when Jacob J. Lew, the current budget director, becomes White House chief of staff later this month.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday dubbed the St. Louis Cardinals the "greatest comeback team in the history of baseball" thanks to their thrilling late-season charge into the playoffs and death-defying, seven-game triumph in last November's World Series. The Cardinals were 10 1/2 games back at the end of August, but rallied to win a National League wild card spot on the last day of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama unveils his annual budget next month, the blueprint will reveal a lot about his re-election strategy but probably little about the spending and tax policies the Congress will adopt in the coming year. Obama's budget for the 2013 fiscal year will be declared "dead on arrival" in a gridlocked Congress, where lawmakers who control the U.S. purse ...

US President Barack Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for November's election with an open-air stadium speech before tens of thousands of people, recreating his rousing 2008 address.