The program exploded under President Barack Obama: 14 million American have the free phones, costing $2.2 billion in subsidies nationwide in 2013. And it's all paid for by taxpayers.

A viral video of an Obama supporter touting her “Obama phone” has put the spotlight on an obscure federal program that provides free or subsidized cell phones and service to low-income Americans.

Obama has made 28 calls in July, surpassing the 25 he made in March during the Crimean crisis. The only time Obama talked to more world leaders by phone was in November 2012, when he was returning ...

The Obama Phone video belongs to a genre popular on conservative blogs in which poor people, usually black, confirm conservatives' worst 47-percent fears by saying they can get something for ...

Yesterday we asked "How Racist Is the Obama Phone Video?" It turns out that we didn't just need to explain the degree of the racism, but whether it was racist at all. Okay, here goes.

Viral election night jokes about "Obama phones" immediately getting "cut off" confused social media users in the wake of the 2016 general election outcome.

The Drudge Report stirred up chatter about the “Obama Phone” Thursday when the website splashed a lead with a screenshot of a middle-aged black woman at a Romney event in Ohio, headlined ...

The video of an Obama supporter bragging about having an “Obama phone” has gone viral on the web, but where do these “free cell phones” come from? The program is called Lifeline ...

We can't be stuck in the 19th century when we're living in a 21st century economy. With those words, President Obama introduced a new initiative called ConnectED. The program would connect 99% of ...

About three weeks ago, far-right activists got pretty worked up about a video featuring the "Obama phone" woman. The gist of the clip was simple: an excited woman supports the president, she says ...