MICHELLE OBAMA

President Obama's approval rating in the Gallup daily tracking poll sunk to 40 percent today. Only 39 percent of those polled said that they approve of Obama's performance. 54 percent said that they are unhappy with Obama's performance.

President Barack Obama said on Saturday that bitter fights between Democrats and Republicans in Washington were hurting the economy and he urged lawmakers to embrace compromise in order to boost job growth.

An appeals court dealt a blow to President Barack Obama's healthcare law on Friday, leaving a mark on constitutional law, the healthcare industry, U.S. politics and U.S. states.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Vera Wang among guests at president?s campaign fundraiser.

Former Obama administration official Elizabeth Warren will make a decision after Labor Day on whether to run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts against Republican incumbent Scott Brown, a Massachusett Democrat assisting her said on Thursday.

Economic fears are weighing heavily on Americans, with a large majority saying the United States is on the wrong track and nearly half believing the worst is yet to come, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said Wednesday.

"We do have a serious problem in terms of debt and deficit, and much of it I inherited," Obama said. The financial crisis, he said, made the problem worse.

Millions of barrels of oil will be saved, administration says.

Newsweek ran a wild-eyed cover photo of Michele Bachmann that's coming under fire from conservatives. Was the cover image a cheap shot? One writer thinks so.

President Barack Obama on Monday blamed a downgrade in the United States' credit rating on political gridlock in Washington and said he would offer some recommendations on how to reduce federal deficits.

A majority of states do not approve of President Barack Obama's performance and his national approval rating is hovering just below 50 percent, according to a new Gallup Poll.

With every gloomy economic report, debt crisis and mood swing on Wall Street, President Barack Obama's fight for re-election in 2012 gets a little tougher.

Texas Governor Rick Perry called a prayer meeting in Houston on Saturday. He attended, and prayed for President Barack Obama. Perry is expected to soon announce his bid as a Republican presidential candidate.

Standard & Poor's has downgraded the U.S. debt rating, in a stunning move. More telling is why the agency downgraded the U.S. for the first time ever. S&P cited America's "less stable" political system as a reason for the downgrade.

U.S. President Barack Obama hailed a positive jobs report on Friday but said more job growth is needed and predicted the situation will improve over time.

Kate Middleton officially joined the style elite, ranking on the top of Vanity Fair's International Best Dressed list.

America's unemployment rate improved slightly in July, but the high figure is weighing heavily against President Barack Obama in his re-election bid.

Demand for larger shoe sizes is growing among women -- but big-footed females are ashamed of stepping out in their shoes, according to a survey by British department store Debenhams.

President Barack Obama took steps to strengthen America's policing of war crimes on Thursday, issuing a proclamation that bars some human rights violators from entering the country, and that also sets up a board to try and anticipate imminent mass atrocities.

Emboldened by concessions wrung from their own leadership and President Barack Obama during the debt limit fight, Tea Party-affiliated lawmakers will likely remain a driving force in the Republican Party -- and possibly induce gridlock until the 2012 elections.

President Barack Obama celebrates the big 5-0.