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A former White House lawyer is all set to face trial for attempted murder and aggravated assault after plea negotiations broke down on Thursday.

President Barack Obama - who will tour an area in Alabama devastated by fierce and deadly storms on Friday - signed a major disaster declaration for Alabama on Thursday, a move which authorizes federal funds for the state to deal with the aftermath of deadly storms that have killed 305 people.

Rev. Franklin Graham's comments on President Barack Obama's birth certificate, views on presidential politics and his charge that the Muslim Brotherhood has influence in U.S. State Department and military have come into the spotlight this week.

‘Birther’ netizens are already calling Obama’s birth certificate fake.

Sarah Palin on Wednesday called for close media attention and focus on Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke's comments on monetary policy and not the White House's release of President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

The White House has released a copy of President Barack Obama's long form birth certificate, which the President Obtained from the State of Hawaii after persistent requests to see it and legal restrictions of the state from showing it. The following is video of the President's comments on Thursday morning

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, probably the most well known civil rights activist in the U.S., believes the birther issue against President Barack Obama is purely driven by racism and represents part of a wider scaling back of civil rights gains by black Americans.

The following is a transcript of remarks by President Barack Obama on April 27, 2011 as delivered to reporters at the White House on the issue of his birth place, which he called a distraction from more important issues facing the nation. On Thursday, the White House released the long-form birth certificate obtained from State of Hawaii. A certification of live birth, which provided less information, was released in 2008, ahead of the election that year.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for an end to distractions over his place of birth and released a long-form birth certificate which provides more detailed information about his birth.

President Barack Obama obtained an exception from Hawaii's State Department of Health to release a copy of his long form birth certificate, publishing it on the White House web site.

An annual event, the Easter Egg Roll was celebrated at the White House on Monday, with President Barack Obama taking part in the festivities by reading to children and playing tennis and basketball.

The Obama Administration has fired back at comments made over the weekend by Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist preacher Billy Graham that the President might not have been born in the U.S.

The United States said it may impose sanctions against Syria in response to the brutal crackdown against protesters by the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

Sen. John McCain, who visited the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Friday, called for the United States and every other nation to recognize the rebels fighting against forces led by Col. Muammar Gaddafi and for responsible nations to arm them.

President Barack Obama said Thursday that bringing change had been more difficult than a lot of us expected, after a group donors interrupted a campaign speech to protest in song the detention of the soldier that allegedly released a trove of government cables which eventually were obtained and disseminated by Wikileaks.

With Mark Zuckerburg admitting that he was kind of nervous in his opening remarks while hosting Barack Obama at the Facebook headquarters, the young entrepreneur and the president sought comfort in a trivial yet hilarious chat about clothes.

President Barack Obama is teaming up with Facebook to talk about the nation’s economy and plans to deal with financial challenges.

There are some interesting elements from Donald Trump’s own ancestry. For one thing, “Trump” is not his real name.

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK on Monday - reacting to a 2 year warning on the nation's pristine credit rating - said Democrats and Republicans needed to reach a deal on cutting the nation's long-term deficits ahead of the November 2012 election, cautioning against waiting for the perfect political moment to tackle the problem.

Donald Trump's PR campaign has been built around questioning the validity of President Obama's birth certificate. But recently Trump has also broached on foreign policy, adding another angle to his PR campaign.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's statements on Sunday that Congress will raise the U.S. debt ceiling in the coming months are in line with separate recently-proposed long-term plans by the Democratic and Republican leadership in Congress and the White House to increase the debt by trillions of dollars in the next decade.