Sheryl Gay Stolberg The New York Times

As a Republican congressman prepares to open hearings on the threat of home-grown Islamic terrorism, President Obama's deputy national security adviser visited a mosque here on Sunday to reassure Muslims that "we will not stigmatize or demonize entire communities because of the actions of a few."The White House billed the speech by the adviser, Den...

Declaring that China and the United States have ''an enormous stake in each other's success,'' President Obama welcomed President Hu Jintao of China to the White House on Wednesday with an elaborate color-guard ceremony that included a colonial fife and drum band and a 21-gun salute.The formal White House arrival ceremony - the 21-gun salute is res...

While US President Barack Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha slipped off to the beach on Christmas Eve, Michelle Obama, the First Lady, took care of a little holiday business: answering telephone calls from children inquiring as to the whereabouts of Santa Claus.The first lady participated in the "Tracks Santa" program, run by the North American A...

It is the presidential homecoming that wasn't meant to be.The last time President Obama was in this nation of islands, in 1992, he holed up in a rented beachside hut in Bali, where he swam each morning and spent afternoons writing "Dreams From My Father," the memoir that later became a best-seller. In it, he shared memories of his life here as a bo...

After 18 months of careful image-making and bipartisanship, Michelle Obama is shifting course as first lady, stepping up her policy agenda and dipping into election-year politics to campaign and raise money for Democrats.Despite stinging criticism of her summer vacation to Spain with daughter Sasha -- aides warned her not to go, and the backlash wa...

As a Republican congressman prepares to open hearings on the threat of home-grown Islamic terrorism, President Obama's deputy national security adviser visited a mosque here on Sunday to reassure Muslims that "we will not stigmatize or demonize entire communities because of the actions of a few."The White House billed the speech by the adviser, Den...

Declaring that China and the United States have ''an enormous stake in each other's success,'' President Obama welcomed President Hu Jintao of China to the White House on Wednesday with an elaborate color-guard ceremony that included a colonial fife and drum band and a 21-gun salute.The formal White House arrival ceremony - the 21-gun salute is res...

While US President Barack Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha slipped off to the beach on Christmas Eve, Michelle Obama, the First Lady, took care of a little holiday business: answering telephone calls from children inquiring as to the whereabouts of Santa Claus.The first lady participated in the "Tracks Santa" program, run by the North American A...

It is the presidential homecoming that wasn't meant to be.The last time President Obama was in this nation of islands, in 1992, he holed up in a rented beachside hut in Bali, where he swam each morning and spent afternoons writing "Dreams From My Father," the memoir that later became a best-seller. In it, he shared memories of his life here as a bo...

After 18 months of careful image-making and bipartisanship, Michelle Obama is shifting course as first lady, stepping up her policy agenda and dipping into election-year politics to campaign and raise money for Democrats.Despite stinging criticism of her summer vacation to Spain with daughter Sasha -- aides warned her not to go, and the backlash wa...