Presidency of Barack Obama

For years, President Barack Obama chided Republicans and Democrats alike for treating the Keystone XL pipeline as a signal of whether the U.S. would seriously fight global warming. Now that he's killed the project, Obama is holding it up as Exhibit A as he works to lock in his environmental legacy with a powerful international climate accord.

The US Senate passed a bipartisan, two-year budget deal early on Oct. 30 that boosts federal spending by $80 billion, reduces a government shutdown threat and raises the debt ceiling through the end of Barack Obama's presidency.

President Barack Obama will travel to Turkey for a G20 summit, followed by stops in the Philippines and Malaysia for meetings with world leaders next month, the White House said on Oct. 26.

The Russian military build-up and bombing in Syria has added to the already existing tension between Russia and the West since the former's occupation of Crimea, and has prompted a new confrontation area on NATO's southeastern flank in addition to difficulties on the eastern flank.

There are "many lies and mythology" about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov warned on Monday.

Twelve Pacific rim countries sealed the deal early Oct. 5 on creating the world's largest free trade area, delivering President Barack Obama a major policy triumph.

U.S. President Barack Obama achieved perhaps the greatest foreign policy victory of his six years in office on Sept.10, when a Republican-backed effort to kill the Iran nuclear agreement was narrowly blocked in the U.S. Senate, clearing the way for the deal's implementation. 

The White House said on Aug. 18 it had hired its first openly transgender official, a move which supporters said underscored the administration's drive against inequality.

US President Barack Obama will August 3 unveil what he called the "biggest, most important step we've ever taken" to fight climate change, a sensitive issue central to his legacy.

The U.S. political battle over the Iran nuclear agreement has gone Hollywood, thanks to a new video strongly backing the deal featuring boldface names from Jack Black and Morgan Freeman to former spy Valerie Plame and Jordan's Queen Noor.