President Obama is in NY for his first speech before the UN General Assembly. NBC’s Michelle Franzen reports. 

South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson says he will not be “muzzled” and will not issue a second apology on the House floor. Democrats in Congress say they will bring up possible sanctions for a vote this week if he doesn’t.  News 3’s Kim Gusby reports, it’s just the latest in a wild week for the South Carolina lawmaker.

Wilson was confronted about his “You lie!“ comments Thursday morning by reporters.  Watch what he had to say.

Obama deals with health reform, education and jobs this week. NBC’s Tracie Potts reports.

President Obama urges everyone to get flu shot. NBC’s Tracie Potts reports.

Nearly three months after American International Group bonuses provoked an angry reaction in Congress, the Obama administration is ready to issue broad new principles on how to compensate top financial sector executives.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama named a Republican congressman Tuesday to be the next secretary of the Army, bringing another member of the opposition into his administration.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Expanding his drive to open government, President Barack Obama is ordering two studies of whether the government is classifying too much information and using too many different ways to keep it from public view.

NEW YORK (AP) - Chrysler on Thursday launched into its second day of testimony in its bid to convince a bankruptcy judge that a deal with Italian automaker Fiat is the best way to save itself from liquidation.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The battle is on between conservative and liberal interest groups to define little-known federal judge Sonia Sotomayor before senators — away from the capital on a weeklong break — return to weigh in on the fate of the woman who would be the Supreme Court’s first Hispanic.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama granted the Pentagon new power to rein in wasteful defense spending Friday, a change he said was long overdue.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is backing President Barack Obama’s efforts to ramp up the war in Afghanistan, granting his request for $91.3 billion for military and diplomatic operations there and in Iraq.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans aren’t letting this one slide.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s request for continuing military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan easily cleared a procedural test Thursday on its way toward a final vote later in the day.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Illegal immigrants won’t be entitled to medical insurance under the health legislation Congress is working on, a leading lawmaker said Thursday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama finds himself in a political box — at home and abroad — on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, and will be trying Thursday to use a major address on national security to work out of the tight spot.

Vice President Biden Delivers First Quarterly Report to the President on Recovery Act Progress

South Carolina’s Senate minority leader
says Gov. Mark Sanford should visit the Dillon school that
President Obama highlighted in a speech this week.

Isakson Statement on President Obama’s Remarks to Joint Session of Congress.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal delivered the Republican response to the President’s address to Congress.

The full-text of President Barack Obama’s address to the joint session of Congress.

The Obama Administration on Tuesday rolled out part two of what he calls a three-legged stool. It’s a new plan to help banks shed debt so they can lend more money.

After days of heated negotiations and partisan debate, the U.S. Senate today approved president Barack Obama’s $838 billion economic stimulus package. 

When the U.S. Senate today approves its version of a massive economic stimulus package, Republican senator Mel Martinez, like most of his Senate and Florida GOP colleagues, won’t be supporting it.

People voted for Obama’s message of hope, optimism and confidence. But in selling his economic stimulus plan, Obama shares similarities with Bush and every recent president.

The White House continued its full-court press Thursday for Congress to approve a massive economic stimulus package, emphasizing the benefits it would have for states and cities throughout the nation.

A jobless Martinsville, Va., man and his family sat in the front row among a crowd of dignitaries at the White House Wednesday as President Barack Obama highlight their plight before signing a bill to expand the children’s health insurance program.

President Obama caps pay to bank executives receiving bailout money.

Here’s what we know about the Obama presidency so far. It’s not 1933, we’re not in the Great Depression and Barack Obama is not FDR.

In his first big test as Republican whip, Rep. Eric I. Cantor of Virginia succeeded in uniting House Republicans in 100 percent opposition to Wednesday’s $819 billion economic stimulus bill.