President Barack Obama is set to announce $3 billion in private sector pledges aimed at alleviating hunger in Africa and urge the world#39;s biggest economies to make good on their own financial promises.

Air Force One will touch down in Iowa again next week when President Barack Obama makes stops in Newton and Des Moines. On Thursday, Obama will talk about the economy in Newton, located in the county with the third- highest unemployment in the state.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will find his diplomatic clout tested at twin summits on his own turf beginning Friday. The big global problems are the economic mess in Europe and finding scarce money to boost a postwar Afghanistan - and in both cases the solutions lie mostly overseas.

Melbourne, May 18 (ANI): US elections have shifted back to the economy as campaign teams for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are trading barbs.

The Obama campaign is escalating its call for Mitt Romney to release old tax returns by using the likely Republican nominee’s father to make its point. “Mitt Romney’s own father [George Romney] released 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president” in 1968, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said Monday during a conference call with reporters. The Obama camp called on Romney to share 23 ...