BARACK OBAMA

For achievements in science, technology and innovation, 12 people were awarded the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation award.

President Barack Obama this week will announce a series of actions to help the economy that will not require congressional approval, including an initiative to make it easier for homeowners to refinance their mortgages, a White House official said.

Libya's new rulers declared the country free from Moammar Gadhafi's 42 years rule Sunday as thousands gathered in Benghazi for the formal announcement of liberation.

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey, killing at least 138 people as buildings crumpled into rubble. The death toll was expected to rise as rescuers sifted through the rubble and reached outlying villages.

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Iran that the scheduled withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of 2011 should not be mistaken for a lack of commitment to democracy in the region.

Could Vice President Joe Biden be eyeing a run for President in 2016?

Republicans Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann took veiled swipes at surging presidential rival Herman Cain on Saturday as six of the party's White House hopefuls courted social conservatives at an Iowa forum.

The Nevada Republican Party pushed the date of its presidential nominating caucus back to February 4, bowing to pressure not to undermine the New Hampshire primary that has traditionally been one of the first key contests for presidential contenders.

The highly anticipated biography of Steve Jobs will be available Monday, and judging by advance attention, it promises to be an all-time great tome, capable of briefly reviving the sagging hardcover book business.

The Tea Party Nation blogger who said U.S. small businesses should stop hiring new employees in order to ensure President Barack Obama will not be re-elected expands on her statement. Melissa Brookstone said a global socialist movement is well underway and Obama is connected to it.

When Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril announced Moammar Gadhafi's death Thursday, he began with the words: We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. That must have made many in Libya and in the U.S. feel very good: it never hurts to be reminded that justice exists.

After ruling Libya for 42 years, his era of brutality and hegemony ended on Thursday, as Libyan fighters captured Col. Moammar Gadhafi in the town of Sirte. He was found hiding with others, in a hole, from where he was dragged through the roads and then brutally shot in his head. As soon as news of his death hit television and news channels, Libyans and supporters from all over the world started celebrating the end of the tyrant's reign.

The hypocrisy and opportunism in other capitals don't absolve Gadhafi of the crimes he committed against ordinary Libyans, against humanity. But there is something sinister and sleazy about the current consensus in world capitals about how utterly wretched Gadhafi was.

More than once, President Barack Obama has written personal checks to struggling Americans, he told a Washington Post reporter, in an admission that is bound to be controversial.

South Sudan is welcoming U.S. military assistance to help fight Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) accused of murder, rape and kidnapping children, officials said on Friday.

Muammar Gaddafi's body lay in an old meat store on Friday as arguments over a burial, and his killing after being captured, dogged efforts by Libya's new leaders to make a formal start on a new era of democracy.

President Obama dispelled the popular notion that his hair has turned grey due to the stress of the presidency in a recent interview with ABC's Jake Tapper.

According to Walter Isaacson's biography on Steve Jobs, Jobs reportedly met with President Barack Obama and told him his presidency was at stake if he could not redirect his policies towards business.

After Moammar Gadhafi of Libya became the latest victim of the Arab Spring uprising, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Iran's leaders may be next.

President Barack Obama said Friday that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year.