Elected just a year ago, the president has spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to ensure that Democrats win governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey and pick up a GOP-held congressional seat in upstate New York.

About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan, the White House said Friday, saying it is on track to reach the president’s goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.

President Barack Obama is giving a jolt to the futuristic “smart” electric grid, hoping to bring America’s power transmission system into the digital age more quickly.

Nearly half of Virginia voters oppose President Barack Obama’s health-care initiative, according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch poll, which also shows his popularity here fading.

Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president.

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what?

President Barack Obama said Friday he was honored and humbled to win the Nobel Peace Prize and would accept it as a “call to action” to work with other nations to solve the problems of the 21st century.

Barring a last-minute apology to Congress, Republican Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina faces what is likely to be a partisan vote scolding him for shouting “You lie!“ at President Barack Obama.

Rep. Eric I. Cantor, R-7th, says he was not being discourteous to President Barack Obama on Wednesday night, he was merely taking notes about what the president was saying during his speech.

What was the reaction to President Obama’s speech? WSLS checked in with two of our area congressman, Democrat Tom Perriello and Republican Bob Goodlatte, to get their take.

White House economists say the Obama administration’s recovery efforts have saved or created more than a million jobs.

In a pep talk that kept clear of politics, President Barack Obama today challenged the nation’s students to take pride and ownership in their education.

President Barack Obama made his case for health-care reform to a small audience at a Kroger supermarket yesterday, continuing a “conversation about change” he started in Bristol just over a year ago.

On a trip shrouded in secrecy, President Barack Obama flew into Iraq on Tuesday for a brief look at a war he opposed as a candidate and now vows to end as commander in chief.

President Obama on Thursday proposed a huge ex-pansion of the government’s role in making college more affordable and putting it within reach of more students.