The biggest reform to US financial regulation since the 1930s became law after President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act at a ceremony in Washington

President Barack Obama's efforts to win final approval of a historic financial regulatory reform bill looked more complicated on Saturday after a Republican senator threatened to oppose it

Chris Dodd, the Senate banking committee chairman, said that he would introduce a financial regulatory reform bill next week in a substantial move forward for one of President Barack Obama's legislative priorities.

Barack Obama, US president, is set to push for financial regulatory reform, including some of its more controversial elements, as Republican opposition to the bill appears to be softening

The move, in which the White House for the first time published its own version of healthcare reform, all but stakes the future of President Barack Obama on getting reform enacted

US President-elect Barack Obama has been invited by European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering to address the EU assembly in Strasbourg next April. Meanwhile, Poettering and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso outlined their views on transatlantic relations ahead of a G20 meeting in Washington on 15 November.

President Barack Obama called for Congress to "buck up" and pass healthcare reform as proposals advanced in the past two days were met with Republican attacks and a lukewarm response from moderate Democrats

Barack Obama, president, met Republican leaders to discuss financial regulatory reform but the meeting did nothing to improve the tone of an increasingly bitter debate

Anyone wondering why President Barack Obama has only now decided to push for immigration reform should look at the poll numbers. Mr Obama, who will give a speech on Thursday will call on Congress to pass a bill giving the country's 11m illegal immigrants a "pathway to citizenship"

Prime minister wants president's support for the British-devised agenda for an international grand bargain to be outlined at next month's G20 summit in London Gordon Brown will today hold nearly two hours of talks with Barack Obama at the White House in a bid to persuade the US president that America needs to swing behind his plan to reform international financial regulation and clean up...