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Joseph Cheng, a professor in political science at the City University of Hong Kong, talks about Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, his meeting in Washington with President Barack Obama and the prospects for diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Al Hunt, executive editor for Washington at Bloomberg News and a Bloomberg View columnist, talks about President Barack Obama's fiscal 2013 budget proposal and the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Israel is right to be concerned about Iran's push to join the league of nations that possess nuclear weapons, but diplomacy - not military intervention - remains the "preferred solution" to averting a potential arms race in the Middle East, President Barack Obama said Sunday.

Timothy Geithner said Wednesday that he doesn't expect to serve a second term as Treasury secretary. He said he doesn't think President Barack Obama would ask him to remain if Obama won re-election.

Call center operators in the Philippines who serve mostly U.S. clients on Wednesday shrugged off President Barack Obama's initiative to bring outsourced jobs back home.

Vilified by the Republicans who want his job, President Barack Obama will stand before the nation Tuesday night determined to frame the election-year debate on his terms, using his State of the Union address to outline a lasting economic recovery that will "work for everyone, not just a wealthy few." As his most powerful chance to make a case for a ...

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Vilified by the Republicans who want his job, President Barack Obama will stand before the nation Tuesday night determined to frame the election-year debate on his terms, using his State of the Union address to outline a lasting economic recovery that will "work for everyone, not just a wealthy few."

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama gets mediocre marks for his handling of the economy and Mitt Romney easily outpolls his Republican rivals in an Associated Press survey of economists.

The economy – and who bears responsibility for it – is likely to be a decisive issue when voters to go the polls next November.

A year from Election Day, Democrats are crafting a campaign strategy for Vice President Joe Biden that targets the big three political battlegrounds: Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, states where Biden might be more of an asset to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign than the president himself.

Nov. 14 -- Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman talks about the Supreme Court's decision to review the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul law.