President Obama has opened his strongest lead yet against Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the Washington Post-ABC News poll released today.
US President Barack Obama has imposed new sanctions on Iran's central bank as he seeks to tighten a choke hold on the Islamic republic's ailing economy and compel it to reverse course on its nuclear program.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama tightened sanctions on Iran another notch, the White House said on Monday, targeting its central bank and giving U.S. banks new powers to freeze assets linked to the government. Obama's move, in an executive order he signed Sunday, was the latest action in an escalating campaign to target the Central Bank of Iran, and was intended to close loopholes ...
President Barack Obama announced on Monday a policy intended to shut down international transactions by the Bank of Iran, amid growing worries by Democrats that Iran’s nearly-complete effort to build a nuclear weapon will spark a war with Israel and an oil-price shock in the run up to the November election.
President Obama -- the guy whose economic policies inspired the creation of the Tea Party -- is the guy more Americans trust, compared to Mitt Romney at least, to handle tax policy, a new poll from ABC News and The Washington Post finds. Just a few months ago, the slow economic recovery and a moderate Republican candidate led The New York Times' Nate Silver to declare Obama the underdog in 2012 ...
First Read: In an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, President Obama outlined why he believes he "deserves" to win re-election.
President Obama says he deserves a second term in office because the economy has started to recover.
President Obama cast himself much as he did in 2008—as an above-the-fray reform candidate—in a pre-taped interview that aired on NBC's Today on Monday morning, arguing that he still needs time to enact the change he promised and will continue the work of his first term if reelected.
President Obama says he deserves a second term in office because the economy has started to recover.
The chief architect of President Obama’s economic plan and Republican rival Mitt Romney’s top economic strategist squared off in a preview of the likely fall debate on the economy, challenging each other on whether the president’s policies have helped or hurt the economic recovery. The...