Former 44th U.S. President Barack Obama became the man he is today because of his outstanding mother, humanitarian activist ...

Ever since the 2008 campaign, many voters, and some journalists, too, have felt they know Barack Obama’s life story. In fact, the story they know is the one Obama told them. Obama’s first memoir, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new biography of President Barack Obama based on conversations with him, his family and political rivals will hit bookstores in April, publisher Alfred A. Knopf said on Monday. ...

EXCLUSIVE — Biographer David Garrow said former President Barack Obama once told him he hoped he would never read the letters penned to his former girlfriend, Sheila Miyoshi Jager, the woman he once ...

While Barack Obama knew her best as Mom, Ann Dunham adopted several names during her life. However, she rarely used the ...

Above is Barack Obama’s first television ad of the general election season. Even by the lenient standards by which such things are judged, it’s a real snooze. It also seems like an odd sort of retreat ...

CHICAGO -- A soon-to-be-released biography about Sen. Barack Obama portrays the Democratic presidential candidate as a far more calculating politician than his most ardent supporters might imagine.

DENVER (Reuters) - Barack Obama burst onto the national stage four years ago with a speech describing himself as a skinny guy with a funny name and an improbable life story. On Thursday night, in a ...

Maybe Karl Rove was onto something. Or perhaps Obama's "cool" has become an inescapable meme. Regardless, the "adaptation" of David Maraniss' Barack Obama biography in the June issue of Vanity ...

When he was a 19-year-old sophomore at Occidental College, two of Barack Obama’s poems — “Underground” and “Pop” — found their way into the spring 1981 edition of the college's literary magazine, ...

Crossroads GPS slams Obama on transparency, sues administration over FOIA. March 23, 2011— -- One of the country's largest and most powerful pro-Republican advocacy groups with ties to Karl Rove ...