Obama Takes Charm Offensive To The Golf Course
President hits the links with two Republican senators.
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Obama Is Very Confident About Immigration Reform
In Mexico, Obama goes off script to raise expectations that comprehensive reform will pass “this year.”
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Commerce Appointment Opens A New White House Rift
Room enough for Valerie Jarrett and Penny Pritzker both to reach out to business, the White House says. But Jarrett tried to kill the appointment.
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Obama: I Have The Juice
President tells reporters he can still do stuff. Except when he can’t.
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Obama Comments On The First Openly Gay NBA Player
“America should be proud.”
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Syrian Chemical Weapons Haven’t Changed The Game Yet, Obama Says
The president won’t specify which options are actually on the table after evidence of chemical weapons by Assad’s regime. “I’ve got to make sure I have the facts.”
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White House Rallies Around Jason Collins
Support for NBA’s first openly gay active player from a White House that’s championed LGBT rights. Update: Obama called Collins Monday.
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A Little Boy With Brain Cancer Met With President Obama
Jack Hoffman isn’t your normal 7-year-old, though, and not just because of his condition. Earlier this month, Jack ran a 69-yard touchdown in a college football game.
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Obama Tells Epic Civil War Joke At National Academy Of Sciences
Without the science that helped the North win the civil war, “certainly I would not be here,” Obama jokes. From the president’s address to to the National Academy of Sciences Monday celebrating the group’s 150th anniversary.
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Obama’s Best Jokes From The White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Obama is a funny guy. And he knows what a BuzzFeed is.
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White House Sequester Moves Puzzle Allies
Support for Friday’s flight delay vote was the latest White House move on sequester that’s left Democrats on Capitol Hill grumbling. Meanwhile, the White House says Democrats in Congress don’t have the spine to take a political risk.
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The White House Has Joined Tumblr
“There will be GIFs,” new site promises.
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Obama Attacks State Push To Ban Abortion
“When you read some of these laws you want to check the calendar to make sure you’re still living in 2013,” Obama says.
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Someone’s Been Making Comics Out Of The World’s Worst Fan Fiction
Fanfiction_img is a Tumblr that makes comics out of some of the internet’s worst fan fiction and it’s maybe the funniest thing on the internet right now.
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President Obama Pays Tribute At Texas Memorial
Fourteen people — including 11 firefighters — were killed and 200 were injured last week in a fertilizer plant explosion in the small town of West, Texas.
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In Texas, Obama Calls On Republicans To Be More Like George W. Bush
The current president casts his predecessor as aisle-crossing pragmatist.
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Abortion Opponents Declare Victory After Obama Moves Planned Parenthood Speech
Anti-abortion advocates say the Kermit Gosnell case forced Obama to distance himself from Planned Parenthood. Nonsense, says Planned Parenthood.
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White House Backs Plan To Tax Online Sales
Obama supports Durbin’s Internet Sales tax.
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White House Posts First Vines
LeVar Burton and Bill Nye star in first-ever six-second White House video press release announcing 2013 White House Science Fair.
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22 Weirdest Campaign Buttons At The Nixon Library Fair
There will be puns. Proudly geeky members of the American Political Items Collectors showed off their stuff at their annual fair in Yorba Linda, Calif. over the weekend.
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Obama: “Americans Refuse To Be Terrorized”
In his weekly address, the president says lasting memory of Boston bombings will be “stories of heroism and kindness; resolve and resilience; generosity and love.”
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Where Obama Went Wrong In The Gun Control Fight
After a hard fought defeat, the White House faces some second-guessing. “They screwed up. This thing was lost in March.”
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Obama: "They Failed Because As Americans We Refused To Be Terrorized"
Late on Friday night, the president responds to two tragedies.
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Why The White House Went Radio Silent During The Boston Manhunt
“The situation is completely fluid, [so] you shut the hell up,” says Prince.
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National Security Team Arrives At White House Amid Chechnya Chatter
John Kerry, John Brennan, and other top national security team members at White House for “previously scheduled meeting,” aide says.
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Obama, Biden Briefed On Situation In Boston
As news breaks in Boston, White House staff convene.
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Obama Scolds Congress On Guns: ‘A Pretty Shameful Day In Washington’
“This legislation met [the] test,” Obama says. “Too many Senators failed theirs.”
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White House: There’s Still A Sliver Of Hope For Gun Control
Carney’s not ready to throw in the towel.
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Obama To Boston Thursday
President to lend support to bombing victims.
