The election was fought over lots of big issues — tax reform, immigration, how to wind down our wars — before the Newtown shooting added gun violence to the list. Here's a preview of what President ...

Now, District of Columbia officials estimate that between 600,000 and 800,000 people will attend Obama’s second swearing-in, a steep decline from 2009 but an above-average audience for a second-term ...

President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration was, from a security standpoint, about as hairy as it gets: the most important people in American government, from the commander-in-chief to the Supreme ...

(The Root) — Obama deserves very high but perhaps not superlative marks for his second inaugural address. It had more the character of an inside-the-park home run, not a grand slam. A 9 on my Olympic ...

The points Obama made in his second inaugural were hardly radical. Lupe Fiasco and other disaffected leftists will continue to have plenty of reasons to feel betrayed by the first black president. But ...

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Barack Obama took the oath of office on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building Monday, beginning his second term as president of the United States before a sea of hundreds of thousands gathered at the ...

President Barack Obama enjoys the highest approval from Americans since his second term began, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows. Fifty-one percent of registered voters say ...

Here is the text of President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address at the U.S. Capitol. The text was provided by the White House. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary January 21, 2013 Remarks of ...