BARACK OBAMA

First lady Michelle Obama wrote an open letter to the residents of Newtown, Conn., one week after a school shooting there left 20 children and six adults dead.

The dangerous fiscal deadline isn’t Dec. 31 -– it’s February 2013, when we bump against the debt limit, again.

After staying mum on the Newtown gunfire mass murder, the NRA Friday backed better security in schools, led by armed guards.

The election, and possibly Newtown, gave Obama a "bump" in the polls - a "rally-around-the-president" pattern that occurs mid/after crises.

A moment of silence in recognition of the massacre in Sandy Hook, Conn., will take place on Friday at 9:30 a.m. ET, marking the moment one week ago when Adam Lanza killed 26 people before committing suicide.

Republicans rebel against Speaker John Boehner's tax bill, forcing the last-minute cancellation of the vote.

The pro-Israel lobby has been vociferously pushing back against ex-Sen. Chuck Hagel's widely expected nod for defense secretary.

Korea's state media has misleadingly reported to its people that Time Magazine selected their leader, Kim Jong Un, as "Man of 2012."

President Barack Obama gets caught in Spiderman's web in latest White House photo of the day.

An unyielding Boehner puts his fiscal cliff "Plan B" to a House vote as Obama warns Republicans to do what's best for America and cut a deal.

Park, a conservative, also took an apparent swipe at Japan, Korea’s former colonial ruler.

The president says he will focus on immigration, climate change, energy -- and still the economy.

As Syrian rebels close in on capital Damascus, concerns are now focused on the rise of al-Qaeda’s influence in Syria.

South Korea has elected Park Geun-hye, the 60-year-old candidate of the Saenuri party, as the country’s first woman president.

Crude oil prices declined during the Asian trading hours Thursday as renewed concerns about the fiscal cliff weighed on sentiment.

Talks to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff” took a turn for the worse Wednesday as President Barack Obama accused Republicans of holding a personal grudge against him while the top GOP negotiator called the president "irrational."

Time magazine named Barack Obama its Person of the Year for 2012, but in an age of constant listicles, how much does this brand-defining "Best Of" still matter?

As lawmakers in Washington weigh gun control, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder takes action.

In the wake of Sandy Hook, the president personally reiterated his call for gun control.

The award caps a comeback-year for the president, who many thought would lose the 2012 election, due to the sub-par U.S. economy.

With a ratio of 23.8 firearms/weapons per 100 people, Canada has the thirteenth highest rate of gun ownership in the world.