Who said the 2008 presidential campaign was over? President Barack Obama upbraided his former Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, on Thursday for resorting to political "talking points" at a health care summit Obama organized in hopes of bridging the divide between the two parties. After McCain ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republicans clashed frequently on Thursday at a summit on his stalled healthcare overhaul, battling over the size and cost of the proposal and moving no closer to a compromise agreement. Obama told about 40 congressional leaders his comprehensive overhaul was "absolutely critical" to a sustained economic recovery, but Republicans said he should scrap the ...

Smirks, smiles and staredowns. President Barack Obama's health care summit Thursday was a made-for-television seminar of American politics, filled with moments the cameras never caught. Republicans and Democrats came together, all right — so packed around a table that some could barely move. Whether ...

With tempers flaring, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans clashed in an extraordinary live-on-TV summit Thursday over the right prescription for the nation's broken health care system, talking of agreement but holding to long-entrenched positions that leave them far apart. "We have a very difficult gap to bridge here," said Rep. Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican. "We ...