Facing frustration from Democrats, Obama defends tax cuts deal A defensive President Obama cast himself Tuesday as the guardian of middle-class Americans and the unemployed, saying sharply that he had to strike a deal with Senate Republica…

Top Test Scores From Shanghai Stun Educators In a speech to a college audience in North Carolina, President Obama recalled how the Soviet Union’s 1957 launching of Sputnik provoked the United States to increase investment in math and scien…