WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed to press for tighter gun laws early next year, as he sought to turn national outrage over the Connecticut school massacre into action to ban assault weapons and ensure better background checks on gun buyers. Obama held a White House news conference on Wednesday to announce that Vice President Joe Biden will lead an interagency effort to craft new gun policies. The group is expected to offer its proposals in January. "We know this is a complex issue that stirs deeply held passions and political divides," Obama said. ...

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Talks to avoid a U.S. fiscal crisis stalled on Wednesday as President Obama accused opponents of holding a personal grudge against him while the top Republican negotiator called the president "irrational."

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We already showed you McKayla Maroney looking very impressed when she and her U.S. women's gymnastics teammates met President Obama on Thursday. The White House shared the photo of McKayla and her teammates, all smiles.

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CROSSTABS - The Fiscal Cliff Reset

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President Obama today heaped praise on his defeated rival, GOP nominee Mitt Romney, saying the former governor’s record and ideas “could be very helpful” in shaping policy over the next four years.

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President Barack Obama spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi Wednesday night about rocket attacks being launched from Gaza into Israel and escalating violence in the Gaza Strip.

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An advocacy group for young immigrants expressed concern Wednesday after President Barack Obama, at his first press conference in months, said he would support "a pathway for legal status" for those living in the country illegally.

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The president was declared the winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes Saturday, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin.

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A new CNN/ORC poll of likely voters shows President Barack Obama leading Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the crucial state of Ohio with less than two weeks before Election Day: According to a CNN/ORC International survey released Friday, President Barack Obama holds a four point advantage over Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the contest for [...]

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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - President Obama will be interviewed on MTV Friday live from the White House as he reaches out to younger voters. "Ask Obama Live: An MTV Interview with the President," will air at 5 p.m. ET and be tape delayed until 5 p.m. PT Friday. The 30-minute special will air on MTV, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Hits, and MTV Jams, and on MTV.com and MTV's mobile platform. MTV News correspondent Sway Calloway will sit down with Obama while correspondent Andrew Jenks fields questions from voters on a Washington, D.C. campus. ...

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa–Paul Ryan hit the president at a short rally here, accusing him of becoming the “very kind of candidate he was then criticizing” four years ago. “You see, the man we heard four years ago offering hope and change is the very kind...

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Political pollsters have been under pressure to make sure their samples include Americans who rely solely on cell phones—and the latest NBC News/Marist polls of Florida, Ohio and Virginia exhibit why. As NBC's First Read flags, Romney narrowly pulls ahead in Florida among voters who were polled over landlines—48 percent to 45 percent. But among [...]

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Obama, America’s First Amish President – That’s the Newsweek-esque headline from Yahoo!’s Olivier Knox after watching Obama on ‘The View’ and writing – “President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that daughters Malia and Sasha can use their cell phones only on weekends,...

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