U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande are scheduled to hold talks in Washington on Monday to tackle a number of issues, including the situation in Lebanon, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

It said that they are likely to address “the extent to which Iran can take part in forming a new Lebanese government.”

President Barack Obama signed an agriculture bill worth more than $950 billion Friday, saying the rare product of cooperation in Washington was an example of how the gridlocked U.S. political capital should work.

Obama traveled to Michigan to highlight the measure, which he compared to a Swiss Army knife because it had so many different functions as it expands U.S. food exports, broadens conservation and safeguards water resources.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday praised Haiti's President Michel Martelly for making progress towards an accord that could see delayed legislative elections take place later this year.

Obama welcomed Martelly to the White House and also promised to stand with Haiti as it continues to rebuild after an enormous earthquake which killed 250,000 people four years ago.

House Speaker John Boehner Thursday threw cold water on the prospects of near-term immigration reform, saying President Barack Obama needed to rebuild "trust" before there is movement on the issue.

"I have never underestimated the difficulty in moving forward this year," the top Republican in Congress told reporters one week after unveiling a set of immigration reform principles aimed at legalizing the millions of people living in the shadows in the United States.

President Barack Obama Thursday said global religious freedom was vital to U.S. national security, and named China, and Myanmar among nations that should show more tolerance.

"History shows that nations that uphold the rights of their people, including the freedom of religion are ultimately more just and more peaceful and more successful," Obama said at an annual National Prayer Breakfast.

President Barack Obama met top Afghanistan war advisors Tuesday with U.S. plans for a post-2014 military force in limbo over President Hamid Karzai's refusal to sign a security agreement.

Obama met Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Marine General Joseph Dunford, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, as he deliberates on the pace of U.S. troop drawdowns and future strategy.

A U.S. official acknowledged Tuesday that the NSA likely scoops up data on congressional phone communications, but stopped short of saying whether such action extends to calls made by President Barack Obama.

The tense exchange occurred during a hearing on the status of the administration's reforms of the secret, bulk data collection program exposed last year by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to ally Saudi Arabia in March, following clear signs of disquiet in Riyadh about his Middle Eastern policies and nuclear talks with Iran.

Obama will fly to meet King Abdullah on a trip added onto existing visits to the Netherlands, Brussels and Vatican City, the White House said in a statement on Monday.

President Barack Obama said Friday he hoped to resolve differences with Republicans on whether to offer illegal immigrants eventual citizenship, saying he was "modestly optimistic" about the prospects for reform.

Obama gave his first reaction to a long-awaited plan by Republicans in the House of Representatives for immigration reform -- an issue that represents perhaps his sole hope for a meaningful domestic legislative victory in his second term.

U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Jordan's King Abdullah II at an exclusive California estate next month, the White House said Wednesday.

The talks, likely to focus on Syria's refugee crisis and Middle East peace moves, will take place on February 14 at the same desert resort -- the Annenberg estate at Sunnylands near Palm Springs -- where Obama met China's President Xi Jinping for an informal summit in June.