Today in viral videos: The First Baller goes 2-for-22 at the White House Easter Egg Roll, Vampire Weekend meets Steve Buscemi, an epic sax-off, and a bulldog who is guaranteed to make your Monday.
In response to the 114,000 signature petition speaking out against the brand new law against unlocking cell phones, the White House said it thinks the law against using a phone on a different carrier is stupid, too, but where do we go from here?
In his State of the Union address and his road show to tell a manufacturing plan as a job creator, the president has called 3D printing "the future." But a look at the rapidly growing industry's challenges reveals that it may not be growing as fast as the president would like.
With Tim Cook as an official guest, the President will be able to look up into the Capitol's VIP box at an Apple figurehead for his second straight State of the Union — except after the year Apple's had, maybe it won't be such an awkward thumbs-up to China this time.
Obama and Biden met with a group of sheriffs and police chiefs this afternoon, calling them a representation of law-enforcement officials across the country. But the truly not gun-shy are these 100-something sheriffs — and counting.
The most powerful people in Washington met at the White House on Friday, and they all walked away, saying and accomplishing close to nothing. President Obama and Speaker Boehner made evening statements, and here's what we know heading into the weekend.
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The two met Sunday at the "Christmas in Washington" charity concert, and according to the etiquette of the conservative chattering class, the president was not supposed to shake the pop singer's hand.
The unemployment rate dropped to 7.7% and 146,000 new jobs were created last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports this morning. That's stellar, actually, and the lowest the rate has been since 2008. So just how much good can these good numbers do for Obama?
Public Policy Polling has new and legitimate results — even if they're a bit heavy on the forced fantasy quentions.
After the president took the battle for the fiscal cliff over the edge of Twitter today, conservatives went right to work using the hashtag to push back up the social-media mountain — and quite successfully thus far.
People were willing to spend more than $11,000 for a jar containing what they and eBay thought was Glenn Beck's bodily fluid — until the auction site removed the listing today. Bids are still being taken via Beck's website.
Proud that people "like us" had a hand in winning President Obama's reelection, the tech blogger world is celebrating the coders and data crunchers of the campaign the only way it knows how: With words. Many, many, many words.
On Wednesday Robert Murray, the Chief Executive of Murray Energy, decided to pray and then fire 54 employees at American Coal and 102 more at Utah American Energy. Now one of Murray's layoff victims has taken to Reddit to explain what it was like to get that news.
There's a giant secret that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have been keeping from you: the economy is actually looking pretty great. Seriously, it is.
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The worst part of telling a bad joke is having to explain it afterwards, which Madonna is now doing after confusing people with her terribly-delivered "black Muslim in the White House" endorsement.
On the heels of politicos fully grasping the political leanings of the magical creature known as Nicki Minaj, today we have an odd "real" celebrity endorsement: at her D.C. stop on her MDNA Tour, Madonna told fans on Monday night to vote for "the Black Muslim in the White House" who's "fighting for gay rights."
Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan shared an intimate moment (and the world didn't end), Lady Gaga gets a tattoo, and Michael Phelps learned to pronounce the clothing company that's employing him.
During his speech last night President Obama made an unplanned reference to Steve Jobs, which is weird because the two didn't have the best relationship, nor was Jobs that categorically great for America.
Mitt Romney's running mate isn't going to be making very many people happy this afternoon thanks to a few choice words about the U.S. being "a country in decline" and an exclusive report from The Nation, about how in 2010, Ryan asked for a grant from the Obama administration which was funded by Obamacare.
Just in time for the first day of school, we're treated to the talk of grading Obama's first term as president with Obama himself giving himself a harsh-sounding "incomplete" and the Romney camp suggesting that running this country should totally be pass/ fail--both of which are way more lenient than our high school calculus class.
Thanks to an ill-timed gaffe by Vice President Joe Biden and a presidential schedule today which features back-to-back meetings with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Biden, the stars have aligned and given us the hot and completely unproved rumor of the day: that Obama will give Biden the axe, and anoint Hillary Clinton his VP.
We haven't even finished our coffee this morning and stupid has already found its way into the news cycle by way of Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine who told concert-goers in Singapore that the mass murders in Aurora, Colorado and at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin were actually part of President Barack Obama's plan to ramp up support for a gun ban.
Starting today, around two million young illegal immigrants will be able to apply for a two-year reprieve from deportation and the right to legally work and live in the United States--an initiative that President Obama proposed on June 15.
The real Devil Who Wears Prada, Carrie Bradshaw, George Clooney--the Obama reelection campaign is leaving no pop-culture touchstone unturned to raise funds, now tapping cast members of The Wire and The Good Wife's Julianna Marguiles to reach quality TV fans with money.
Does Barack Obama's have "very high" "geek quotient" as chief technology officer -- a.k.a official White House geek -- Todd park claimed today in a CNN interview?
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Hey, if we made $1 million dollars within 90 minutes of announcing our support for same-sex marriage you can sure bet our next events would include Cher and a house party with the guy who made Glee.
After accidentally insulting Poland earlier this week, President Barack Obama sent a letter of apology to Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, and the pair are friends once more.
Today in books: 50 Shades is read in the North but loved in the South; Bob Woodward's new book is about the Obama economy; authors are not reading their elders.
Maybe they were just sick of it. Hawaii verified President Obama's birth records again (even though it didn't need to) late Tuesday, to Arizona's "I'm not a birther, but my friends are" Secretary of State Ken Bennett.
Notre Dame isn't the first religious university to sue the Obama administration over the U.S. requirement that employer insurance cover birth control, but Notre Dame is the most prominent, so the lawsuit it filed on Monday is the one that's going to get all the attention.
Snuffing out the op-ed outrage before it starts, it seems President Obama has decided not to take his annual vacation to that playground of the one percent, Martha's Vineyard.
Forgive us for asking, but do you even know the name of the Swiss electronica band who sang that "Oh Yeah" the song from Ferris Bueller's Day Off that they swear is in Karl Rove's janky, and much-talked-about Obama attack ad?
Dead. Kaput. Dunzo. The Buffett Rule, which would have raised taxes on the U.S. millionaires and was supported by 60 percent of Americans, died in the Senate yesterday. But that won't stop Republicans and Obama from using it as a political tool.
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To break down the payroll tax cut and the repercussions of the stalemate into simpler terms, the White House took to Twitter and asked the masses what $40 meant to them and came away with sad snapshots of American life in 2011.
President Obama's presidential campaign effort unveiled a new strategy last night--asking his supporters (those subscribed to the President's mailing list) to submit the email addresses of their Republican acquaintances.
The White House has decided that President Obama will not apologize to Pakistan for the deaths of two dozen soldiers in NATO airstrikes last week, which means Pakistan will have to settle for a sorry from Hillary Clinton instead.
Herman Cain has been gaining steam, but enough to oust Obama?
During the recession from 2008 to 2010, researchers expected crime to rise but it fell instead
Just in time for the 2012 presidential campaign to go into full swing
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On David Cameron's 'Katrina' moment, and why Obama is still the same
The media's anti-Left bias, actual praise for our debt debate, and Gloria Steinem
Cartoonist Tony Auth on the debt stalemate
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