Barack Obama

President Barack Obama’s 2012 tax returns show he and first lady Michelle Obama paid $112,214 in taxes last year on $608,611 in adjusted gross income. They paid an effective rate of 18.4 percent for their federal income taxes.

The White House says President Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in light of automatic spending cuts that have led to furloughs for thousands of federal workers.

President Barack Obama is proposing a new investment into research to map the human brain in hopes of unlocking some of its mysteries.

Obama enlists voters to press Congress on gun control; moderate Senate Dems still a tough sell

US citing national security in censoring public records more than ever since Obama’s election

Two people familiar with the process say President Barack Obama is close to naming Thomas Perez, a civil rights official in the Justice Department, as his choice to head the Department of Labor.

GOTP outrage in 3, 2, 1…

President Barack Obama is criticizing Senate Republicans for delaying the confirmation of Chuck Hagel as his secretary of defense. The president said his opponents are using politics while the nation is still in a war in Afghanistan.

The 33.5 million people who saw President Barack Obama’s fifth State of the Union made it the smallest audience for the annual speech since Bill Clinton’s last address in 2000.