State of the Union News

An increase in the federal minimum wage will disproportionately benefit hourly paid workers who are young, female, nonwhite, never married, and less educated, according to new research from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.

President Barack Obama plans to press for further cuts in U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals in a speech in Berlin today, according to an administration official.

Duncan will be at St. Benedict Center of Early Childhood Development on 25th Street in the California neighborhood of Louisville Thursday morning and then participate in a discussion about early childhood development issues.

In his first visit to Berlin since becoming president, Barack Obama will give a speech including an update on his plan to rid the world of nuclear weapons and an announcement that he wants to further reduce America's deployed stockpile of nuclear bombs by one third, a proposal that already faces stiff GOP opposition.

A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero who sat next to the first lady during the 2009 State of the Union address was indicted yesterday after being accused of forcing two women to take heroin at gunpoint before raping them.

Back when he was first seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for president, Barack Obama often questioned free-trade agreements like NAFTA.

The majority of CNBC's coverage in the first half of 2013 cast doubt on whether manmade climate change exists.

Udall said Sunday that he's "skeptical" that the NSA's ability to collect telephone records is effective.

"America's possibilities are limitless," President Barack Obama told the country during his second inaugural address.

Given the reactions that President Obama got after he proposed raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour in his State of the Union address, he must have felt a little like comedian Rodney Dangerfield.

Al Gore has been calling on Barack Obama to step up the fight against climate change and Keystone, most recently during an interview with The Guardian : The former vice-president said in an interview on Friday that he hoped Obama would follow the example of British Columbia , which last week rejected a similar pipeline project, and shut down the ... (more)

A cutting-edge biological terror alert system detected a potential threat in the air one morning back in 2008, threatening to derail then-Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech in Denver for his party's presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention.

Five months into his second term, allies and enemies are as confounded as ever about who President Obama really is.

In TV and online ads actor, conservationist, NRDC trustee says, "I just hope the president has the courage of his convictions."

Her eyes are transfixed as she struggles to prise away the powerful hand squeezing around her throat.

Sen. Robert Menendez said Sunday that if Republicans want any real shot at taking back the White House, they must support a pathway to citizenship as part of immigration reform.

"I think we're going to get plus-70 votes," Graham said on Meet the Press this morning.

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday President Barack Obama was making a sound call in his decision to provide military support to Syrian rebels and suggested such support should include taking out Syrian government airstrips.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee strongly asserted Sunday that the National Security Agency is not recording Americans' phone calls under U.S. surveillance programs, and any statements suggesting differently amount to "misinformation."

When President Barack Obama announced the creation of a national network of manufacturing-development hubs, Georgia had already been down that road for a decade.