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CNN
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South Carolina Democratic Senatorial candidate Alvin Greene urged voters Sunday to "get South Carolina and America back to work" in his first major public speech since surprising the political world last month by capturing his party's nomination...
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CNN
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An unidentified heckler interrupted President Barack Obama's fundraising speech Tuesday night by calling for the administration to move faster on repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bars openly gay and lesbian soldiers from military service...
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CNN
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A small Kansas church that has gained nationwide attention for protesting loudly at funerals of U.S. service members will receive a Supreme Court hearing over free speech rights...
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CNN
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Hours away from what is arguably the most important address of his short presidency, President Obama will huddle with his top speechwriters to go over the latest revisions to his State of the Union address, according to White House spokesman Robert Gibbs...
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CNN
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President Obama's State of the Union speech will be a tough sell for millions of Americans struggling under the weight of an economic recession, analysts said...
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CNN
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President Obama delivered a rousing speech Saturday night to the nation's largest gay rights group, praising the gay community for making strides in equal rights and pledging to deliver on major campaign promises that some say he's left on the back burner...
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CNN
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On Wednesday, President Obama will make the most important speech of his presidency. We hear this phrase so much that it has become a cliché. But, in this case, the cliché is accurate...
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CNN
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After months of criticism that he has failed to outline a specific health care reform plan, President Obama will address a joint session of Congress tonight in a speech aides say will be to the point. At stake for the president: getting Democratic factions on board with his plan and convincing Americans of the need for health care reform...
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CNN
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President Obama today told students they have a responsibility to make the most of their time in school. "What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country," he said at a high school in Virginia. The speech has created controversy as many conservatives expressed fear the address would be used to push a political agenda...
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CNN
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The White House is set to release on Monday the text of a controversial back-to-school speech to students from President Obama that has angered some conservative parents and pundits...
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CNN
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Call it a lesson in contemporary political discourse...
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CNN
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Israelis and Palestinians had one thing in common Thursday: They hung on every word in President Obama's wide-ranging speech on U.S. and Muslim relations...
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SF Gate
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Sen. Barack Obama's historic speech earlier this month in Philadelphia on race relations has elevated the discussion about the issue to the point where it has worked itself into the pews and pulpits of Bay Area churches.
Local ministers say they gave s..
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MSNBC
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Bush pulls back on entitlements
In other economic initiatives, Bush:
Proposed a $300 million expansion of his No Child Left Behind education program to provide more options — mainly in “faith-based” and other parochial schools — for inner-ci..
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SF Gate
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A Democratic Congress is poised to heed President Bush's call to help save the economy, but may not give him much else after a State of the Union speech that recycled many of the administration's past initiatives.
A lame duck president called again for..
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CNN
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White House hopeful Mitt Romney will tell Americans Thursday morning as he seeks to become the nation's first Mormon president that he shares the same "moral convictions" as other people of faith. The former Massachusetts governor is delivering the speech..
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MSNBC
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A third Security Council resolution, with tougher sanctions, is being discussed. President Bush has refused to take military action off the table if Iran does not comply.
Speaking to reporters later, Ahmadinejad attempted to clarify Tehran’s stance...
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MSNBC
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In his speech last night, President Bush made a case for progress in Iraq by citing facts and statistics that at times contradicted recent government reports or his own words.
For instance, Bush asserted that "Iraq's national leaders are getting some t..
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FOX News
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A rowdy protest broke out at the American University in Washington, D.C., Tuesday night after White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove delivered a speech on campus, local media reported.
More than a dozen students began throwing things at Rove and h..
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MSNBC
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West Yorkshire in England has a new chief police constable. Upon his appointment, Sir Norman Bettison made one of the strangest comments of the year..
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