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The article discusses U.S. President Barack Obama's administration's focus on successfully implementing the Affordable Care Act health care law as of July 23, 2013. Topics addressed include the law's requirement that uninsured individuals purchase health coverage from insurance exchanges, the effect of the law's implementation on Obama's legacy, and the efforts of White House chief of staff Denis R. McDonough to promote the law.

The article reports on criminal charges filed against Joseph Caputo, who climbed over a fence in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. when U.S. President Barack Obama and his family were celebrating Thanksgiving; and offers comments of Robert Hoback, of the Secret Service, on the incident.

The article reports on the end of a transit strike in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 14, 2014 after an executive order signed by U.S. President Barack Obama to create a presidential emergency board to help resolve the labor dispute.

The article reports that U.S. President Barack Obama will give the late Medal of Honor to 24 Army veterans due to race and ethnicity wherein three of whom are still alive.

The article offers information on the third White House Science Fair of U.S. President Barack Obama to bolster the nation's young scientists and inventors.

3:44 p.m. Updated For President Obama, the fainting spells are back. A woman listening to the president discuss his energy policy in Maryland on Thursday fainted among the standing-room-only crowd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Monday passed a four-year, $63 billion compromise bill to renew and extend federal aviation programs through 2015, speeding the modernization of the air traffic control system toward the era of satellite navigation. The Democratic-controlled Senate voted 75 to 20 to pass the measure, despite objections from labor unions. The House approved the measure on Friday on a 248-to-169 vote. President Obama is expected to sign it into law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two lawmakers are calling on President Obama to issue a veto threat against gun legislation working its way through Congress that would make it easier for people to carry concealed handguns across state lines, signifying growing concern among Democrats that the measure may reach the president's desk. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey and Representative Carolyn McCarthy of New York sent a letter to President Obama on Wednesday calling the legislation a ''dangerous measure'' and saying its passage would weaken state gun laws. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Wednesday recognized 28 men who died when their cold war radar station collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean 50 years ago. A storm snapped the legs of the platform holding the radar station, known as Texas Tower No. 4, which had already been pummeled by bad weather including a hurricane. Fourteen airmen and 14 civilian contractors died when the tower crashed into frigid waters 85 miles southeast of New York City; only two of the bodies were found. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- When is the word ''British'' an international insult? When officials in the Obama White House combine it with another word: ''petroleum.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It was President Obama's 48th birthday on Tuesday, and across the globe people chimed in on the occasion. While most wished the 44th president well on his first birthday in office, others intensified their calls for Mr. Obama to prove he was born a citizen of the United States. Contrary to advice from astrologers suggesting that he ''avoid heavy discussions and try not to focus on dry, practical matters,'' Mr. Obama hosted the 60-member Senate Democratic caucus at a lunch where chocolate cake was served. That was followed by a meeting with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. Chuck E. Cheese's was already booked, said Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports the role of U.S. director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. in securing the release of American prisoners Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller who were being held in North Korea. Topics discussed include U.S. President Barack Obama's handling of U.S. foreign policy toward North Korea, the role North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un, and the prison camp system that exists in North Korea.

The article offers information on several people who were helped by U.S. President Barack Obama during his first term in office including Paul Monti of Raynham, Massachusetts, Rileen Secrest of Martinsville, Virginia and Christine Lardner of Albuquerque, New Mexcio.

A sea of protesters filled the west lawn of the Capitol and spilled onto the National Mall on Saturday in the largest rally against President Obama since he took office, a culmination of a summer-long season of protests that began with opposition to a health care overhaul and grew into a broader dissatisfaction with government. On a cloudy and cool day, the demonstrators came from all corners of the country, waving American flags and handwritten signs explaining the root of their frustrations. Their anger stretched well beyond the health care legislation moving through Congress, with shouts of support for gun rights, lower taxes and a smaller government. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As President Obama and Congress intensify the push to overhaul health care in the coming week, the political and economic force of that industry is well represented in the financial holdings of many lawmakers and others with a say on the legislation, according to new disclosure forms. The personal financial reports, due late last week from members of Congress, show that many lawmakers hold investments in insurance, pharmaceutical and prescription-benefit companies and in hospital interests, all of which would be affected by the administration's overhaul of health care. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the U.S. President Barack Obama's invitation to meet with the Muslim American student of MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas (Tex.) Ahmed Mohammed. An overview of Mohammed's detention for bringing to school an alarm clock that was believed to be a fake bomb, including in regard to Islamophobia in Irving, is provided.

WASHINGTON -- With the possibility of a government shutdown looming, Obama administration officials raced Wednesday to identify essential government services that would have to be provided if the government ran out of money. Agency officials were revising their plans by the hour, trying to take account of legal requirements, political imperatives and pressure from federal employee unions demanding more information. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]