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Seeking to show the public he understands the burden of rising gas prices, Obama set an ambitious goal of reducing U.S. oil imports by 2025.

Pres Obama paid tribute Tuesday to the memory of Ron Brown, a Democratic trailblazer who broke racial barriers.

Pres Obama declared Monday night that the U.S. intervened to prevent a slaughter of civilians that would have stained the world's conscience.

Returning home to some messy politics, President Barack Obama is confronting a battery of challenges, from a spending standoff that threatens to shut down the government to congressional angst over the U.S.-led attacks on Libya. Foreign crises rage across Africa and the Middle East, and Americans still want the economy to improve more quickly.

The NAACP's newly revived Worcester chapter elected a 28-year-old openly gay black man as its president this month. In New Jersey, a branch of the organization outside Atlantic City chose a Honduran immigrant to lead it last year. And in Mississippi, the Jackson State University chapter recently turned to a 30-something white man.

The Obama administration has begun examining whether it can make cuts to its nuclear weapons stockpiles that go beyond those outlined in a recent treaty with Russia.

Calculating the U.S. price tag for the no-fly zone in Libya is hardly simple math.

Hammered by the auto industry's slump, Detroit saw its population plummet 25 percent over the past decade, according to census numbers released Tuesday that reflect the severity of an economic downturn in the only state where overall population declined.

NASA, currently led by an African-American administrator, has partnered with the United Negro College Fund to help build science careers.

The extension came and passed like a driving wind and the NFL has decided to lock out its players.