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Last year, Barack Obama threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals home opener, continuing a tradition of Presidents throwing out first pitches that stretches back to William Howard Taft in 1910. This year, however, Obama is taking a pass on getting the season started with a ceremonial first pitch. Instead, recently unemployed talk show host Larry King will do the honor before the Nati

Barack Obama ran into a little problem upon his return home from his recent trip to South America. With the cameras rolling, the President attempted to enter into the Oval Office through a pair of French doors, only to find that he had been locked out.

Barack Obama didn't take a whole lot of risks when filling out his NCAA Tournament brackets. The President has all four number one seeds — Duke, Pittsburgh, Ohio State and Kansas — advancing to the Final Four, with Kansas winning it all...

The president's News Conference has been rescheduled for 12:30 EST today. The President is slated to discuss rising energy costs and the recent disaster in Japan. The audio will be streamed live at npr.org.

A recent report conducted by the government shows that over 90 percent of nursing homes in America employ workers with a criminal past. The first step is to recognize the problem and and the second is to solve it. Obama's health care bill contains a possible solution for this problem.

Wow, we have been wasting  billions of dollars in tax payers' money. Obama called for a detailed report to discover areas of spending that may be redundant or just plain dumb. What they found--546 such programs that fell into one of these categories. Even republicans are stating the obvious, " makes us all look like jackasses."

Obama is willing to amend his Health Care Law by allowing states to come up with their own 'similar' solution as early as 2014. Will this make the states abide by the new law or will they simply gawk at it?

According to a National Gallup Poll, Obama's job approval rating has been on the decline and are down from the 2009 rating. Will this drive the oval office to take another direction or will they stay on the same course? Montana makes it into the top five offering the least approval for the president...

The President discusses the tragedy in Tucson and how even within the wake of tragedy we become stronger as is typical of Americans and that we still have work to do. I personally liked the line "Before we are Democrats or Republicans, we are Americans." Video and transcript inside.

All is not quiet in the southern front, as the Obama administration's plan to force new reporting requirements on thousands of gun dealers near the Mexico border is under fire from members of his own party.