There was a brief moment where some conservative were trying to make a scandal out of the President's moment in the rain on Thursday. But unfortunately that scandal died before it could really take off.
Obama spoke out about gun control for the first time since the Aurora shootings at a National Urban League convention on Wednesday night, and it seems like he's going to lobby for the ban on assault weapons to return.
Mitt Romney isn't expected to land in Britain until Wednesday morning, but he'll have plenty to talk about once he gets there. A campaign advisor told the U.K.'s Telegraph Romney has a special bond with Englanders because of "an Anglo-Saxon heritage."
We are days away from the Olympics, and we'll be seeing a lot of at least one Presidential candidate's face while we watch the pole vault. The other's getting in his time with the public before the opening ceremony starts.
The world of campaign finance can be confusing, so we've spent our afternoon making sense of breathless summer election reports to explain what, exactly, is happening with the Romney and Obama campaign bank accounts.
As the U.S.'s mens and womens Olympic basketball teams stomped all over Brazil last night in D.C., President Barack Obama needed two chances to get a smooch from Michelle on the "Kiss Cam" jumbotron.
Haim Saban, the man famous for bringing Power Rangers to North America, donated $1 million dollars to a Democratic Super PAC, marking the biggest celebrity donation since March.
The Romney campaign was so offended when Democrats used the Sunday talk shows to question Romney's Swiss bank account, but then the Obama campaign fired a catty response right back. These two are fighting and gossiping like high school girls.
At the White House, David M. Kaden is a senior policy advisor, and Andrew Parker is a special assistant. Neither receive an official pay check signed by the President. They make $0 per annum. You could do it too!
President Obama spoke from the Rose Garden about his new executive order, a DREAM Act-like policy that grants work permits to many young immigrants who entered the country illegally as children, and it was punctuated with a mildly dramatic exchange between the president and a reporter.
Just in case you can't afford the $40,000 per plate price tag, or you didn't win the Obama campaign's win-a-trip-to-a-fundraiser contest, we've got you covered. This is everything that went down at Sarah Jessica Parker's big Obama party.
The Obama campaign is shedding the traditional campaign model and focusing its advertising efforts on the Internet, a gamble that could cost them dearly, or help them write the book on how candidates engage their base online.
From getting dumped to fighting for your reproductive rights, we picked out our favorite (and one not-so favorite) speeches from this year's round of graduations.
President Barack Obama was joined by former President Bill Clinton at a trio of campaign fundraisers in New York Monday night, collecting at $3.6 million, according to The Associated Press, and offering these quotes in return.
While President Obama was attending a series of fundraisers in Minnesota on Friday, he made the unexpected decision to pardon an (adorable) criminal he met at one of the functions.
The ceremony honoring President Obama's Medal of Freedom recipients, who will receive the nation's highest civilian honor, is going on right now took place Tuesday.
Memorial Day plans rarely change for the President and he didn't spend his afternoon manning a grill. Obama spoke at the Arlington National Cemetery on Monday afternoon.
The President called himself as a "Twoosh master," referring to when someone uses all 140 characters in a tweet, in a video from a Twitter Q&A he did on Thursday. We'd like to dispute his claim of social media mastery.
President Obama and Mitt Romney went head to head on Sunday, but it wasn't in a debate or over a hot-button election issue. They both released videos for Mother's Day.
President Obama didn't hold back when talking about his opponent, Mitt Romney, during a thirty five minute speech he gave on the Ohio University campus, the first of two major political rallies on Saturday that are meant to be the kickoff of his reelection campaign.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson tears down the president's new slogan.
The party was last night, and the hangover has set in. These are the some of the best jokes and weirdest pictures from the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
The president is on the verge of losing his temper; all it took was a wasted Secret Service detail and 11 Colombian prostitutes.
As a Secret Service sex scandal -- alcohol! Colombian prostitutes! -- shocks and titillates a nation, at least one lawmaker is wondering just how "isolated" an incident this really is.
Abake Assongba donated around $50,000 to President Obama's campaign and is one of his 400 volunteer fundraisers, the only problem is that she's being accused of fraud, impersonating a bank official, and dodging creditors to the tune of over $650,000.
The president glimpses a "time-warped" North Korea through binoculars, then tells them to knock off their "bad behavior."
Rick Santorum's slick new attack ad makes a second Obama term seem like the coolest thing ever. We break down its inspirations.
President Obama spoke in the oil town of Cushing, Oklahoma today, and has announced that his administration will expedite the permit for the southern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The president called Hamid Karzai from his limousine to offer words of consolation following the tragic massacre in Kandahar.
Speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in Washington today, the president -- whose allegiance to Israel has been called repeatedly into question by members of the GOP -- made his support forcefully clear.
President Obama has offered his oratorial services to Barnard College, the 124-year-old women's college affiliated with Columbia University, and the school has responded with an enthusiastic, "Yes, please!"
“I recommend you watch the recent debates,” Obama said at a fundraiser last night. “I’m thinking about just running those as advertisements."
Despite earlier criticism of both super PACs and the president, the political firebrand wrote Priorities USA Action, Obama's super PAC, a $1 million check onstage last night in San Jose, CA.
Cartoonist Steve Breen on Obama's empty promise.
President Obama's raised $29.1 million in January, outpacing last year's figures, but the president's team would also like to remind you that 98 percent of those donations were $250 and less.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson takes apart the president's new motto.
The White House has announced that as a part of its compromise with religious groups who disagree with a new health care mandate around contraceptives, it will now shift the costs of contraceptives to insurance companies, instead of religious employers as it had initially planned.
ABC News' Jake Tapper is reporting that the White House will announce an "accommodation" for religious organizations upset over the controversial rule requiring health insurance providers to cover birth control.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama will waive 10 states from the No Child Left Behind law, the AP reports.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson on the president's change of heart.
Cartoonist Tom Toles has a little fun with "self-deportation".
Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" was downloaded 16,000 times last week, thanks in part to President Obama's a capella moment at the Apollo Theater last week.
We don't really know what was said during Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and President Obama's tarmac finger-pointing run-in in Phoenix yesterday, other than that the president took umbrage with his portrayal Brewer's book Scorpions for Breakfast.
Just in time for his State of The Union address, the latest ABC News/Washington Post Poll shows that President Obama has garnered a 53 percent favorability rating--much higher than Republican opponents and his highest since April 2010.
President Obama swung through New York City on a fundraising tour on Thursday, that included an impromptu singing performance on the stage of the Apollo Theater.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson gets sick of Obama's waiting game.
President Obama spoke today after meeting with business leaders to discuss "insourcing," the administration's new buzzword for bringing jobs to America.
President Obama spoke, after nearly an hour's delay, about the payroll tax deal before heading to Hawaii for his Christmas vacation.
Over the past week, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been on a tour of Asia--starting in Honolulu, Hawaii (yes, technically that isn't Asia) and ending with today's East Asia Summit in Indonesia.
Perhaps President Obama and French President Nicholas Sarkozy have a burn book as well.
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