Topic: Barack Obama

President Obama's attacks on Bain Capital is testing a bond formed by Bill Clinton, who showed that Democrats could be both populist and friendly to Wall Street, The New York Times reports.

If elected president, Mitt Romney tells Time magazine, he would bring the unemployment rate down to 6% in his first term.

The tight battle between President Obama and Mitt Romney has barely budged despite all the major news developments of the past month, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll finds.

It's a GOP attack ad, but with a soft approach, and it's expected to become one of the most heavily broadcast commercials of this phase of the general election, The New York Times reports.

President Obama presses his attacks on Mitt Romney's background as a venture capitalist, arguing that profit-making alone is not a qualification for the White House.

Newt Gingrich's small empire, which was commonly known as Newt Inc. and pulled in $110 million over the past decade, is hitting hard times.

Twenty-two states have joined Montana in fighting to prevent the  Supreme Court's Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.

Mitt Romney and his party raised a sizable $40 million last month, but many donors who backed his primary election challengers have not come to his aid.

Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, a prominent Democrat enlisted as a surrogate for President Obama’s campaign, sharply criticized it on Sunday for attacking Mitt Romney’s work at the private equity firm Bain Capital.

World leaders backed keeping Greece in the euro zone on Saturday and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalizing a global economy increasingly threatened by Europe's debt crisis.

A growing chorus of world leaders on Friday pushed for a shift toward more pro-growth policies to help ease a European crisis that threatens to oust Greece from the euro zone and reverberate throughout the global economy.

Leaders of major industrial economies meet this weekend to try to head off a full-blown crisis in Europe where fears are growing that Greece could leave the euro zone bloc, threatening the future of the common currency.

Mitt Romney raised almost as much money as President Obama last month, taking in more than $40.1 million in fundraising efforts for his campaign and the Republican Party.

The billionaire said to be weighing a proposal to resurrect incendiary comments by President Obama's former pastor has shelved the idea after it was rejected by Mitt Romney.

Rep. Dave Camp steps up pressure to force action on a rewrite of the tax code, which both parties agree has become overly complicated and inefficient.