The weight of the president’s crown apparently proved too heavy. But the crown of his successor, weighed down by the sheer number of crises that have accumulated under Obama’s watch ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself.

Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown." That's one way of looking at President Obama's decision on Tuesday to commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning ...