If you look at the photos from Thursday's festivities at Bush's new presidential library in Dallas, you can see old colleagues getting together to laugh — and to appraise who's done well since graduation, or who's fallen into disrepute.
The First Dad told the Today show Wednesday that he can stop the First Daughters from getting tattoos... by getting his own, and taking it viral. But if history has taught us anything, kids are always going to find a way to screw over their folks. Like so, perhaps.
Kid President welcomed the real-life president and first family to the makeshift stage during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, which is always high on the pomp and silliness, but not always quite this awkward. Also: terrifying Easter Bunny.
The First Lady covering Vogue for the second time is one of those events that so instantly and obviously fascinates inquiring eyes of both the political and fashion worlds that it begs for comparison.
The only thing keeping Michelle Obama out of elected office is Michelle Obama. If Sandberg really wants to start a social movement, maybe she can start with a single "ambition gap": the First Lady's. It might even keep those newfound rumors of a Hillary-Michelle ticket going.
The Best Picture denouement turned into a surprise appearance by the First Lady, via satellite from the Governors' Ball in Washington, D.C. — where earlier she had sat next to Chris Christie — to introduce and announce the winner, Argo.
Today in celebrity gossip news: The Duchess of Cambridge has returned from her "babymoon," Fergie expecting her own little black eyed pea, and Leonardo DiCaprio gets serious about animals.
What with all of the political drama in this year's Best Picture crop — and Michelle Obama hosting the kid from Beasts of the Southern Wild at the White House — we couldn't help but wonder which films our top politicians would like to see win.
Since Michelle Obama and Speaker John Boehner won't exactly tell us what was behind the he-said-she-eye-rolled exchange they had on Inauguration Day, we're now having to rely on the inexact science of lipreading.
While some people might debate whether these alleged "alumni" of the Obama campaign were, in fact, surprised, there were still giggles, tears, chit-chat, and a lot of Bo the dog's wandering. There were also hugs. Here are some GIFs of those hugs.
If the inauguration festivities are any indication — the First Lady wore a patterned coat and dress today, and will party with Lady Gaga tonight — the media still loves to talk about what Michelle Obama wears, and we the people love to soak it up.
The First Lady wore a bright red gown made of chiffon and velvet and designed by Jason Wu to the inaugural balls Monday. Red, surprisingly, has not been a very popular color among first ladies' inaugural gowns, despite its popularity in campaign signs.
The First Lady wore a bright red halter dress designed by Jason Wu to President Obama's second inaugural ball.
Here's are some GIFs of a momentous occasion: the First Lady rolling her eyes at something the Speaker of the House said at the Inauguration Day luncheon.
One of the biggest stories of Inauguration Day for the fashion-inclined has already broken, and it at once peculiar and familiar. Also: Joe Biden is wearing some serious shades.
The First Lady's new Twitter handle (which, so far, has issued a single tweet) highlights one of the curiosities of political campaigning on social media.
You've all seen the photo, which the Obama campaign tweeted on election night and quickly became the most-retweeted in Twitter history. Now Barbara Walters gets the president to induce a collective national moment of "aww."
What's the case against Michelle Obama starting a political career of her own? It starts and ends with the fact that she doesn't want one. But what if she changes her mind?
Today in (mostly) non-election celebrity gossip: Kristen Stewart isn't giving any answers about her love life, Katie Holmes had a cast party, and a Bachelorette is dating a new man.
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President Obama made an unscheduled stop in Cleveland on Friday to lob an unscheduled insult at Michele Bachmann. Maybe.
A commenter steeped in theatre compares the podium performances from Ann Romney and Michelle Obama.
After the dueling convention speeches Ann Romney and Michelle Obama, we can never really know which woman loves her husband more, or who more deeply prizes motherhood and PTA meetings and changing diapers and all that woman stuff. But we can rank them by other woman stuff: whose dress was more fierce?
Much of the Internet appeared awash with love for Michelle Obama last night, and today, as the analyses of her speech at the Democratic National Convention come through, there is more praise, much of it dealing with Michelle as the self-dubbed "mom-in-chief."
Oh, sure, Michelle Obama gave a great speech, but what about the people in the Democratic National Convention hall? Those are the people conservatives are interested in -- the "hall of zealots" as former George W. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said on CNN.
Just like the Republican affair last week, the first night of the Democratic National Convention belonged to the candidate's wife as Michelle Obama took her first crack at wooing voters. How did she do?
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Dana Vollmer broke a world record; Michelle Obama hugged Kobe and Lebron; and NBC gets a lot of bad press. Your day in Olympic news.
As the U.S.'s mens and womens Olympic basketball teams stomped all over Brazil last night in D.C., President Barack Obama needed two chances to get a smooch from Michelle on the "Kiss Cam" jumbotron.
The scary thing about the Washington, D.C., cop reassigned after saying he would shoot Michelle Obama is that he's worked in the president's motorcade.
By now you're probably wise to the fact that many celebrities' "official" Twitter and Facebook accounts are actually run by their handlers and their teams, and the FLOTUS isn't an exception. Which is why we were surprised that her newly-launched Pinterest account feels almost personal.
There are four ways to interpret what President Obama meant Wednesday when he said that his wife "doesn't go all the way down" at last night's fundraiser at the home of Glee creator Ryan Murphy.
Obesity Warrior Michelle Obama came out in support of Mayor Bloomberg's controversial ban on the sale of high volume sugary drinks, but she hedged it about as much as one can.
George W. Bush is visiting the White House today and the Washington press is obsessed with how awkward the occasion will be given that President Obama routinely trashes the Bush administration. But it doesn't have to be that way!
For years conservatives have tried to turn Michelle Obama's extracurricular obsessions -- organic gardening, healthy eating, exercising -- into a political symbol. But her husband's up for re-election which means there's a First Lady in waiting, Ann Romney, who has her own hobbies, like the expensive horse riding sport called dressage.
Today in books and publishing: Michelle Obama's book about the White House garden finally arrives, Fifty Shades of Grey returns to shelves in Florida, and what it was like to stage an opera with Maurice Sendak.
Nick Stahl has been found, Bono has a sense of humor, and Richard Price takes a bride.
President Obama will be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC on Tuesday, and we can probably blame this on a 1992 memo from a Bill Clinton campaign staffer on the necessity of doing "UnPresidential" stuff to get voters to like the candidate.
America, we've told you this before. You've put on a few these past few decades. And beside those new pairs of jeans you had to buy, we now know just how much your ever-expanding waist is costing you in yet another way: Doctor's bills.
Today in books: the flawed logic behind Jonathan Franzen's Twitter unease, another Next Harry Potter is crowned, and Michelle Obama's gardening book is now coming out May 29.
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The President and First Lady played hosts to British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, at their fourth state dinner since taking office.
Visitors to the White House know that their tours rarely bring them into contact with its famous residents, but today, First Lady Michelle Obama (and First Dog Bo) surprised visitors with a hug-filled meet-and-greet.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton don't want you to know what they're calling their dog, Fox News is trying to be nicer to Politico, and there may be an inter-office romance in bloom at MSNBC.
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Also: Michael Vick says he never even wanter to go to Fashion Week, Rachel McAdams is through finding boyfriends on movie sets while filming is still going on, and Ashton Kutcher takes a Twitter stand.
The White House communications staff must have had a fun Monday as they denied rumors that Michelle Obama spent $50,000 on lingerie during a private shopping spree with the Queen of Qatar at a British boutique
With Tuesday's news that Debbie Bosanek, Warren Buffett's famed secretary, would attend the State of the Union as a guest of Michelle Obama, the media got a little hint about the subject of the president's speech (hint: taxes). Now we can put a face to a much-discussed name.
If there's one thing the info war between the White House and Jodi Kantor has made clear, it's that waging a successful whisper campaign in Washington is damn near impossible.
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