Barack Obama

As Barack Obama and congress try to find a way out of the political stalemate that has shut down federal government, the Republican party finds its room for manoeuvre is limited by its own Tea Party.

Republicans are holding a gun to the head of the American people, says President Barack Obama, speaking at a sandwich shop near the White House where he expressed his anger at the ongoing situation.

President Obama, blames Republican speaker John Boehner for failing to allow a vote in the House of Representatives that would end the current federal shutdown.

Barack Obama tells Republicans he will not negotiate with an “extremist wing” of US congress to end the political stalemate, as the shutdown of federal government enters its third day.

Efforts to end the US government “shutdown”, including a proposal from Republicans that would see some parts of state machinery restored, have failed as the political impasse continues.

Federal government shuts and an even more crucial moment for US politics looms on the horizon. So just how much will the Republican Tea Party renegades risk to block “Obamacare”?

President Barack Obama attacks a “small faction” of the Republican party for not agreeing a budget and causing the United States government to shut down.

Closed for business: 800,000 federal workers are sent home without pay as Republicans and Democrats fail to agree a budget. So what happens next? Crisis – or compromise?

Political gridlock between the White House and Republicans leads to the first shutdown of congress in nearly two decades, with Barack Obama warning “real people” will feel the impact “right away”.

It is crisis governance with the entire American economy at stake. Republicans are threatening to shut down the US government at midnight tonight in a battle over Obama’s flagship healthcare law.

Iran says it has agreed to fast-track nuclear negotiations, with the hope of reaching a deal within a year. But Iran’s nuclear envoy plays down prospects of a breakthrough at talks on Friday.

A new book by a top military advisor claims modern day warfare is no longer nation states fighting on a foreign battlefield, but small groups of insurgents fighting in the centre of our cities.

President Hassan Rouhani tells world leaders at the United Nations general assembly that Iran is ready to talk about its nuclear programme, but warns against military intervention in Syria.