Julie Davis

Malia Obama, the older daughter of President Obama, plans to attend Harvard University beginning in the fall of 2017, waiting until her father leaves office to begin her college career.

President Obama has proposed granting Israel the largest package of military aid ever provided by the United States to another nation, but he and Prime Minister Netanyahu remain deeply at odds after months of negotiations.

President Barack Obama on Friday announced his support for opening the market for cable set-top boxes, singling out the devices in millions of homes as a clunky and outdated symbol of corporate power over consumers as he introduced a broad federal effort to increase competition.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday made a full-throated plea for Cuba’s autocratic government to change, calling on President Raúl Castro to loosen his grip on the economy and political expression or risk squandering the fruits of a historic thaw.

President Barack Obama stood beside President Raúl Castro on Monday and declared a “new day” of openness between the United States and Cuba, but old grievances and disputes over human rights marred a groundbreaking meeting and underscored lingering impediments to a historic thaw.

The leaders of the United States and Cuba made history Monday, meeting for the first official talks between their governments in decades.

The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it would allow individuals to travel to Cuba for “people to people” educational trips and lift limits on the use of U.S. dollars in transactions with Cuba, wiping away stiff restrictions on travel and commerce as President Barack Obama prepares to make a trip to Havana next week.

President Obama on Wednesday said he would nominate the centrist appeals court judge Merrick B. Garland as the nation’s 113th Supreme Court justice, daring Republican senators to refuse consideration of a jurist who is highly regarded in Washington.

The decision was quickly interpreted as the latest evidence of a lingering rift between two leaders whose public break last year over the Iran nuclear deal brought the U.S. relationship with Israel to a bitter low.

The State Department on Monday released the last set of emails from the 30,000 messages on Hillary Clinton’s private computer server

President Barack Obama will travel to Cuba within weeks, a senior administration official said Wednesday, making a historic visit as part of an effort to end more than a half-century of estrangement and forge normalized relations with a Cold War adversary.

In a prime-time televised speech that was more a broad statement of vision than a policy prescription, Obama sought to present an ambitious portrait of the nation after seven years of his leadership, with a resurgent economy and better standing in the world despite continuing challenges of inequality at home and terrorism abroad.

Obama also said in a radio interview that some of the scorn directed at him personally stems from the fact that he is the first African-American to hold the White House.

The Obama administration on Wednesday will call on Congress to enact measures to help military veterans gain easier access to health care, disability and educational benefits, part of a push to spotlight its efforts to improve the way the government treats veterans after a scandal at Veterans Affairs.

Obama said it was time to put aside their “strong disagreement” over the Iran deal, which he described as a “narrow” one that had been allowed to eclipse areas of common interest.