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NORTH CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) – Michelle Obama’s appearance on her husband’s driving tour through North Carolina and Virginia, two politically important Southern states, comes as she takes a more active role in the 2012 campaign…

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JAMESTOWN, N.C. (AP) – Obama’s Southern strategy is at the heart of the president’s three-day bus trip this week through North Carolina and Virginia…

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WASHINGTON (AP) – The two-state swing, which kicks off Monday in Asheville, N.C., is Obama’s latest attempt to combine campaigning for his jobs bill with campaigning for his re-election.


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WASHINGTON (AP) – A day after Senate Republicans killed his $447 billion jobs bill, President Barack Obama said he isn’t taking no for an answer…

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Republicans voted Tuesday night to kill the jobs package President Obama had spent weeks campaigning for across the country…

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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Obama said Tuesday he’s prepared to break his jobs bill into pieces and try to move it that way, hours before the measure faced likely defeat…

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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, facing a critical test in the Senate, it appears likely to die at the hands of Republicans opposed to stimulus spending and a tax surcharge on millionaires…

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NEW YORK (AP) – Giving a bit of ground on his own plan, he endorsed a new proposal by Senate Democrats to tax millionaires to pay for his jobs program. ‘This is not a game,’ he said…

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Democrats are rewriting portions of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill to include a new 5 percent tax on income above $1 million…

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MESQUITE, Texas (AP) – First he singled out House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell…


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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama demanded Monday that Congress vote on his jobs legislation package this month despite signs that the full measure faces stiff resistance…

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theGRIO VIDEO – The president, who is touring the country promoting his American Jobs Act proposal, discusses the impact the economy has had on black Americans and more…

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SEATTLE (AP) – President Barack Obama took his newly combative message to the liberal West Coast on Sunday, aiming to re-energize faithful Democratic voters who have grown increasingly disenchanted with him…

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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama called on the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and “put on your marching shoes” to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity…

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Six Democratic mayors were joined by a Republican mayor in urging President Barack Obama and Congress to work together to create jobs and rebuild the nation’s crumbling infrastructure….