President Barack Obama

U.S. Senator Jon Tester released yesterday the following statement in response to the President’s decision to deny a permit for construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which Tester supports.

President Barack Obama rejected TransCanada 1,700 mile Keystone XL pipeline permit this afternoon. The Canada-to-Texas pipeline would run through parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma and on to Texas.

An Idaho Falls man accused of trying to kill President Barack Obama by firing several shots at the White House from long range will be detained pending trial. U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola said at a hearing Monday that 21-year-old Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is a "particularly dangerous individual...

He’s one of the most powerful people on the planet, but President Barack Obama is just like every other American with an average American family. According to an interview in PEOPLE, he watches TV and tries to keep his girls away from Facebook, just like any parent. Like we needed an interview to figure that out.

President Barack Obama said Wednesday his administration has made no decision on whether a Canadian company can proceed with plans for a transnational oil pipeline to Texas. A protester during Obama's appearance at the University of Colorado Denver yelled out that the president should say no to the contested Keystone XL project...

President Obama unveiled the ‘Pay as You Earn’ plan while in Denver speaking to college students to help ease the burden of paying back student loans. I spoke with University of Montana Financial Aid Director Kent McGowan Thursday afternoon about how the President’s plan would affect students here in Missoula. That interview is attached.

Montana’s Senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus voted yesterday in support of the bipartisan compromise to avoid default and cut the deficit by more than $2 trillion dollars.  President Obama signed the compromise into law shortly after it cleared the U.S. Senate. Baucus says it’s very important that both political parties work well together.

It isn't something that could wait until tomorrow -- not without risking a government default on its debts. So, President Barack Obama has signed the emergency legislation to raise the nation's borrowing limit, a little more than an hour after it won Senate approval.

A top adviser to President Barack Obama says reaching a debt-limit accord that avoids a government default lifts a big cloud over the economy. David Plouffe tells CBS's "The Early Show" Obama isn't worried about perceptions of weakness in dealing with House Republicans, saying "we're not concerned about any of that."

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted Monday of nearly all of the 20 charges of corruption that had been brought against him. A jury found Blagojevich guilty of 17 out of the 20 charges brought against him. He was acquitted on one count of bribery and the jury was unable to reach verdicts on two counts of attempted extortion, CNN reported.