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The race has attracted the attention of organized labor, Bill Clinton, and a longtime ally to President Obama.

US President Barack Obama will visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania in June, the White House has said.

With less than two weeks to go before their springtime adjournment, Illinois lawmakers are being pressured over whether they will make their state the 13th to approve gay marriage.

Nineteenth-century artist Lewis Miller captures the facade of Washington Hall, built in 1849.

Many a modern president has lost momentum and suffered what are termed "scandals" in his second term.

Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder gave Washington a preview of how the last few months of the Obama administration are going to look, and they're going to be ugly.

President Barack Obama is facing a political situation not altogether unlike what the last Democrat in the White House, Bill Clinton, experienced during his second term.

President Obama's charm offensive has been a dismal failure , but of course, he didn't really try all that hard.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are making clear they are staying out of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, just as the race is about to be roiled by the candidacy of their close aide Huma Abedin's husband, Anthony Weiner.

In the idealistic constitutional fantasies of those who harbor high hopes and short memories, the accumulating effect of the scandals piling up at the White House will result in the impeachment and removal from office of Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States.

He's compared himself to Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, evoked nostalgia for John F. Kennedy, sought to emulate Ronald Reagan, praised George W. Bush, and enlisted the assistance of Bill Clinton in his 2012 re-election effort, but as his second term stumbles along, the president with whom Barack Obama finds himself being compared is Richard ... (more)

Former U.S. President Clinton visited Colombia last week, meeting with President Juan Manuel Santos and visiting Bogota, where Mayor Gustavo Petro showed him around the city in an electric taxi.

The Confederate flag of the 7th Virginia Infantry Army of Northern Virginia Obverse captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., in July 1863 by the 82nd New York Infantry.

What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity.

Come on, Eagle – let's get our headline facts straight. Obama did not fire the IRS chief.

President Bill Clinton walks to the White House Rose Garden to deliver a statement on the impeachment inquiry on Dec.

Those are the urgent questions Republican leaders face. Their answers depend on a third question: What do they hope to accomplish? It would be so easy to succumb to glee.

Mr. President, every month since you've been in office, I've sent you a personal letter, as I have with every president since Bill Clinton.

Wow, when you have Forehead, agreeing with the Tea Party, then you know the IRS scandal is a very serious problem for big government-loving, liberals.

A few weeks ago, a Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll was taken to gauge whom New Jerseyans view as their favorite president.