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A meeting on Tuesday between President Obama and President Hu Jintao highlighted the nations’ different approaches to problems as China assumes a bigger global role.

The White House announced Sunday that President Barack Obama will be meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israeli prime minister's trip to Washington, ending days of uncertainty.

Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision that honored the first-year U.S. president more for promise than achievement and drew both praise and skepticism around the world.

The unrelenting global troubles confronting Barack Obama are about to converge on him all at once, providing a stern test of leadership for a first-year president who has pledged to "change the world."

US President Barack Obama arrives in the UK for his first major foreign visit since taking office in January.

President Obama is making a formal announcement this hour about his plans for troubled automakers General Motors and Chrysler, which have already been given $17.4 billion to keep them running.

President Barack Obama says the US must have an "exit strategy" in Afghanistan, despite sending more troops there.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday called President Obama "ignorant," saying he has a lot to learn about Latin America.

US tax bills will begin to fall from April, President Barack Obama says, hailing a new tax cut as the fastest ever to take effect.

Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th president of the United States Tuesday, and called on Americans to join him in confronting what he described as an economic crisis caused by greed but also “our collective failure to make hard choices.”