Politics - Barack Obama

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior White House economists on Sunday predicted the U.S. economy will start creating jobs by spring and said that boosting employment will be at the top of President Barack Obama's agenda next year. Full Story »

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - To education reformers, a $4.3 billion school funding competition from the Obama administration seemed like just the push California needed to start making long overdue changes to restore academic luster to the state's public schools. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's economic advisers are talking tough about the banks ahead of his meeting with heads of financial institutions. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - A White House economic adviser says it would be "suicide" for the government to focus exclusively on the deficit when the economy is sorely in need of jobs. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's top economic adviser says creating jobs takes priority over reducing the country's red ink in the next year. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - The top White House economic adviser says "everybody agrees the recession is over" even though many experts predict unemployment could climb higher. Full Story »

Fresh from his election victory, Barack Obama introduced a new national security team last December that included two key players – National Security Adviser Jim Jones and holdover Secretary of Defense Robert Gates – he had hardly met. A third, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had been his bitter rival in the Democratic presidential primaries. Full Story »

BEIJING (Reuters) - The top editor of a Chinese newspaper that interviewed U.S. President Barack Obama has been demoted, sources said, in a move they described as fallout from Communist Party censors' anger over its handling of the story. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and the first lady will attend the Christmas in Washington celebration at the National Building Museum Sunday evening. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama singled out financial institutions for causing much of the economic tailspin and criticized their opposition to tighter federal oversight of their industry. Full Story »

BEIJING (AFP) - The half-brother of US President Barack Obama has been made an "image ambassador" for southern China's booming city of Shenzhen, state press reported Sunday. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Russia and the United States are making "substantial progress" on negotiations for a successor to an expired nuclear weapons treaty, according to a Kremlin statement. Full Story »

BEIJING (Reuters) - The top editor of a Chinese newspaper that interviewed U.S. President Barack Obama has been demoted, sources said, in a move they described as fallout from Communist Party censors' anger over its handling of the story. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - The White House is expressing unhappiness over Iran's announcement that it is ready to exchange uranium for nuclear fuel. Full Story »

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his US counterpart Barack Obama on Saturday held talks by phone to discuss a new accord on cutting nuclear arsenals, the Kremlin said in a statement. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House may be bedecked with baubles and awash with Christmas cheer, but its most famous resident appears a tad disgruntled with Santa. Full Story »

KAILUA, Hawaii - Many in this upscale, oceanside suburb of Honolulu are expecting it to again serve as the holiday getaway for scores of reporters, photographers, federal agents_ and one president. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN, Dec 11 (OneClimate.net) - The UN's Copenhagen climate conference has suddenly become a thrilling place to be. And it's a whole week till President Obama arrives, so the thrill has nothing to do with the power of the US. Quite the reverse. It's the small islands that are making waves here - islands so small and low-lying that they will be drowned if dramatic action is not taken. Full Story »