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WASHINGTON - Capping a chaotic first year in office that has upended political norms and divided Americans even within his own party, President Trump at his first State of the Union on Tuesday night claimed credit for a booming economy, while calling for a huge new effort to rebuild the nation's infrastructure and legalize young immigrants under a plan that has infuriated opponents and allies alike. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama used a televised Oval Office address for only the third time in his presidency Sunday to call on Muslim Americans to help counter the Islamic State's violent ideology in response to the San Bernardino massacre, and to reassure fearful Americans that the administration has a plan to counter homegrown terrorism. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bay Area Democrats voiced deep misgivings Thursday about President Obama's plan to step up attacks against the Mideast militant group known as Islamic State, even as California's two Democratic senators urged full support. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sen Dianne Feinstein, California's senior senator and a longtime hawk on national defense, is leading an epic constitutional struggle against unlikely foes: the CIA and fellow Democrat President Obama. So far, she's winning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California's senior senator and a longtime hawk on national defense, is leading an epic constitutional struggle against unlikely foes: the CIA and fellow Democrat President Obama. So far, she's winning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When President Obama stood before students in Southern California a week ago ridiculing those who deny climate science, he wasn't just road testing a new political strategy to a friendly audience. He was trying to drive a wedge between younger voters and the Republican Party. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When President Obama stood before students in Southern California a week ago ridiculing those who deny climate science, he wasn't just road testing a new political strategy to a friendly audience. He was trying to drive a wedge between younger voters and the Republican Party. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Dwindling water for farms, longer fire seasons and coastal flooding of homes and businesses await California as climate change intensifies, according to a federal report released Tuesday that details how global warming is damaging every region of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Dwindling water for farms, longer fire seasons and coastal flooding of homes and businesses await California as climate change intensifies, according to a federal report released Tuesday that details how global warming is damaging every region of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama faces a rebellion against military action in Syria that has united the most liberal and conservative members of the California House delegation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama faces a rebellion against military action in Syria that has united the most liberal and conservative members of the California House delegation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Liberal Bay Area Democrats were furious with President Obama Wednesday for proposing in his budget plan a new inflation adjustment that would reduce the growth of the Social Security benefit for more than 60 million Americans who now receive it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Liberal Bay Area Democrats were furious with President Obama Wednesday for proposing in his budget plan a new inflation adjustment that would reduce the growth of the Social Security benefit for more than 60 million Americans who now receive it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The tech industry, one of the most powerful players in the immigration debate, threw down its marker Tuesday with a bipartisan bill to increase H-1B visas for skilled workers from 65,000 to 115,000 a year, and possibly as many as 300,000 a year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, vowed Thursday to halt intelligence leaks from the administration, starting down a treacherous political path that could embarrass President Obama at the height of his re-election campaign. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The White House and President Obama's campaign advisers insisted Monday that there was no difference between Obama's position on same-sex marriage and Vice President Joe Biden's, despite Obama's refusal to endorse legal marriage for gay and lesbian couples. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama on Thursday signed a Republican-crafted bill to loosen securities regulations, including several that were established after the dot-com crash of 2000 and the Enron scandal of 2001, and make it easier for companies to raise cash from the public. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sen. Dianne Feinstein today will challenge a law signed by President Obama that allows the military to arrest and imprison, without charge or trial, Americans suspected of terrorism. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A pre-summer spike in gasoline prices has ignited an election-year furor, with President Obama mocking presumed Republican "three-point plans for $2 gas," all of which involve drilling, and Republicans claiming that Obama's energy strategy relies on algae, pond scum and chicken manure, not to mention bankrupt Fremont solar manufacturer Solyndra. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California House Democrats ripped the Obama administration Wednesday for inaction on home foreclosures, saying the president could pass all the jobs bills he wants but that won't fix the economy until the housing sector recovers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Executives with bankrupt solar company Solyndra will refuse to answer questions at a congressional hearing Friday looking into the company's $528 million government loan, their lawyers reported Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Obama administration officials Wednesday denied Republican charges of White House interference in a $528 million federal loan guarantee to Bay Area solar manufacturer Solyndra, warning that the company's failure should not lead the nation to abandon a potential multitrillion-dollar solar energy market to China. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Economists are generally skeptical about the biggest and most bipartisan part of President Obama's $477 billion plan to help put 14 million people back to work: a large payroll tax cut for workers and businesses. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Declaring that a stagnant U.S. economy should not be held hostage by political gamesmanship, President Obama on Thursday laid out a new $447 billion plan to create jobs for Americans. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Republican prescription for job growth, shared by tonight's presidential debaters and Republicans in Congress, is to dismantle regulations proposed by the Obama administration, especially the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming these are a key culprit in widespread unemployment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama on Tuesday endorsed a bill by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which for 15 years has denied all federal recognition of married same-sex couples. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Issuing an ultimatum to a president of her own party, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is betting that she can recapture the speakership in a high-stakes game of brinkmanship over raising the $14 trillion debt ceiling by Aug. 2. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bay Area Democrats split Friday over a resolution to deny President Obama authority for the U.S. intervention in Libya, with House minority leader and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco supporting the administration's policy and antiwar liberals joining Republicans to rebuke the White House. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Former Monterey Rep. Leon Panetta won unanimous Senate confirmation Tuesday to assume the top civilian job at the Pentagon as it faces a new era of limited budgets and rising public demand to extricate U.S. forces from Afghanistan and Iraq. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The White House told media outlets Friday that it did not threaten to exclude The Chronicle from pool coverage of events in the Bay Area after the paper posted a video from an event in San Francisco last week, contradicting statements from the paper's editor, Ward Bushee. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The White House threatened Thursday to exclude The San Francisco Chronicle from pooled coverage of its events in the Bay Area after the paper posted a video of a protest at a San Francisco fundraiser for President Obama last week, Chronicle Editor Ward Bushee said.White House guidelines governing press coverage of such events are too restrictive, Bushee said, and the newspaper was within its rights to film the protest and post the video. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama, with a belated embrace of his commission's recommendation to cut $4 trillion in deficits over the next 12 years, on Wednesday laid out an aggressively centrist re-election platform that confronts Republicans on taxes and his own liberal base on spending in an effort to win back the independents he lost in last year's election. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nine days after opening a bombing campaign in Libya, President Obama addressed the nation Monday in a prime-time televised address to sell the war to a skeptical Congress and a public puzzled by his decision to launch a third war in the Islamic world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bay Area Democrats charged Monday that President Obama violated the law and the Constitution when he committed to military force in Libya, reaching rare consensus with several Republicans who also questioned whether the intervention has an end goal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Obama administration's decision Wednesday to stop defending a 1996 federal ban on same-sex marriage marks a major victory for gay rights advocates and a fork in the road for Democrats and Republicans. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The budget President Obama will issue today stands little chance of being adopted, serving instead as his opening bid in a showdown with Tea Party Republicans that will reach a boiling point when the government runs out of money in three weeks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In a House chamber draped with an air of bipartisan civility after the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, President Obama sought in his State of the Union address Tuesday night to recast the looming showdown with Republicans over deficits and spending as an issue of American competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Enraging the liberal wing of his party, President Obama won the biggest bipartisan victory of his presidency Thursday as the House passed his $858 billion, two-year compromise with Republicans that temporarily extends all the Bush-era tax cuts and unemployment insurance. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama's tax bargain with Republicans is in effect a roughly $800 billion second stimulus, chiefly of Republican design, and a rightward lurch by the White House after Democrats' historic election losses last month. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A week after voters staged a revolt driven in part by anger over federal deficits, a bipartisan plan to slash $4 trillion in red ink by slaughtering a herd of sacred cows met with howls Thursday from liberal Democrats, silence from Republicans and a tepid nod from President Obama, who formed the commission less than a year ago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama's go-slow approach to ending the "don't ask, don't tell" ban on gays serving openly in the military has left repeal hanging on life support in a lame-duck session of Congress. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama said Wednesday that he had been humbled and his party "shellacked" by its landslide losses Tuesday, but he rejected the idea that his policies on health care, the stimulus or bailouts had been repudiated. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Facing a classic presidential calamity, President Obama on Tuesday used his first prime-time Oval Office address to assure the nation that he has a plan to address the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and promise to end the nation's oil addiction. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The big question for many Democrats tonight is how far President Obama will go in his first Oval Office address to turn the Gulf of Mexico disaster into an opportunity to end the nation's dependence on petroleum. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With the possibility that oil could gush into the Gulf of Mexico until August, President Obama faces the kind of crisis that can make or break a presidency. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama on Tuesday signed his second piece of major legislation in a week, an overhaul of student lending and the final piece of health care legislation that incorporates more generous benefits demanded by the House. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama signed legislation into law Tuesday that will overhaul the nation's health system and, jubilant Democrats hope, overhaul their own political fortunes and become not their Waterloo, but the GOP's. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Democrats continued to build momentum Wednesday for a historic vote on health care reform, possibly this weekend, as President Obama lobbied Democratic holdouts one on one, and several indicated they could be swayed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama threw down the gauntlet to Republicans after an extraordinary and often testy 6 1/2-hour bipartisan health care summit Thursday, outlining areas of common ground but vowing to press ahead without Republicans within "a month or six weeks" if there is no agreement on one of the nation's biggest economic problems. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A California insurer's steep rate hike on individual health insurance plans has been a gift to President Obama, breathing life into Democratic health care reform going into a televised White House summit on Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]