There was a brief moment where some conservative were trying to make a scandal out of the President's moment in the rain on Thursday. But unfortunately that scandal died before it could really take off.
In continuing to address "Hurricane Scandy," Stewart had to admit that Republicans has something with the IRS and Benghazi dust-ups. He even proposed teaming up with Fox News! But you know who still doesn't get to take a GOP victory lap? Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
President Obama and Jay Carney have now more or less officially shifted their public energy to dealing with the IRS targeting of "tea party" and "patriot" keywords, and more or less ignoring Benghazi and the AP investigation. After all, people are getting in actual trouble with the IRS affair.
On Tuesday, President Obama met with President Park Geun-hye of South Korea at the White House, which the Yonhap News agency and every pretty much every news outlet on Earth reported. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Yonhap — South Korea's worldwide leader in news — had any photos. So, you know, why not fake a handshake between two world leaders?
For the third time in four years, President Obama greeted head coach Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide football team to the White House for the annual photo op and gear exchange. "I was thinking about trying to find some cots for them here, they are here so often," the President said.
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The president proposed a $100 million, long-term investment initiative Tuesday: the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, or BRAIN for short, so scientists may better understand our noggin'.
Following an awful scandal in which a bunch of Secret Service agents were busted for drinking and partying with hookers in Columbia, the President is moving towards a "culture change" by appointing the first woman ever to run his security detail.
Occasionally, the job of the President is to tell jokes. He was tasked with being funny at a dinner party last night at the 128th annual Gridiron Club and Foundation dinner. It helps that he's not all that bad at it.
With each day that passes, Congress' efforts to curb automatic weapons and high capacity magazines becomes more irrelevant — and maybe not so much because of politics as technology.
Funding-strapped researchers should be rejoicing at Obama's promise to put $3 billion towards mapping the human brain, right? Not according to scientists who say the project lacks clear goals and gobbles up money that could've gone to a lot more smaller studies.
President Obama will appoint Jewell, the CEO of outdoor equipment co-op REI, as his new Secretary of the Interior Department today. And from what we can tell she's going to be the fittest person hanging around the White House — easily. Forget Ken Salazar; watch out, Michelle.
Addressing the controversy that arose after people didn't believe the President when he said he shoots skeet at Camp David, the White House released this photo Saturday to hush up the non-believers.
Now that Palin and Fox News are broken up, Smart Politics wanted to measure whether or not the network got its money's worth by calculating how much Palin was paid per word. We wanted to see how much she made just for mentioning the president.
One way to celebrate a redesign is to unleash an interview with President Obama featuring a wide range of answers from Congress to football to guns, which is exactly how The New Republic introduced the world to their new look.
In 2009 Chief Justice John Roberts flipped some very important words in President Obama's swearing-in. Four years later, it appears the two still haven't figured out how to do get this tradition quite right.
Inauguration Day is as good a time as any to look back at four years ago, when a younger Obama officially took over a country that was happy for Chris Brown and Rihanna, rooting for Anne Hathaway, and enduring an otherwise pretty terrible January.
Rapper Lupe Fiasco was the headliner at the StartUp RockOn concert to celebrate President Obama's reelection last night. Fiasco celebrated by spending more than 30 minutes rapping an anti-Obama song, and was eventually booted off stage.
Well, it's official: we're officially stuck with Barack Obama and Joe Biden for another four years. The two were officially sworn-in Sunday ahead of tomorrow's big Inaugural events because of Martin Luther King Day.
Once an adventurous diner who frequented hip D.C. eating establishments, President Obama can now be found picking over bland fare at fusty old-school restaurants, apparently.
In an about face on gay rights and the church, Obama's inaugural team has found a gay-friendly replacement for Pastor Louie Giglio, who dropped out of the January 21 benediction last week after his sermons on "ex-gay therapy" surfaced.
After comments surfaced that he supported "ex-gay" therapy, Pastor Louie Giglio has withdrawn from performing the inaugural benediction in the form of a bizarre, accusatory statement that suggests the administration might need better vetters.
President Obama nominated Senator John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State today.
Ignoring the will of the people — or at least the hacking collective 4chan, which hacked its online poll in favor of the North Korean Supreme Leader — Time's 2012 Person of the Year shortlist includes the usual mixed bag.
John Boehner has finally given in to raising taxes for America's wealthiest citizens for the first time in the ongoing fiscal cliff talks. But it isn't exactly what the President asked for...
It's been an emotional day for everyone: President Obama teared up while delivering a statement to the press on the Newtown school shooting Friday afternoon, pausing for several seconds and wiping under his eye while talking about the children who died.
Obama and Boehner met at the White House Sunday for an undisclosed amount of time and discussed an undisclosed amount of solutions.
A lot of the big viral things this year had shorter life expectancies than usual, thanks to the cool-hunters who singlehandedly ended them. Here's our interactive guide to the last 12 months in Internet obituaries.
After being ordered to leave the U.S., Onyango Obama, the Kenyan-born half-brother of President Obama's father, has been granted a new deportation hearing and now has a second chance to stay in the country.
Monday afternoon's question-and-answer session was just as measured as any campaign stop, controversial hashtag and all. The only genuine part of the whole thing, then, comes from the reactions.
The Senate added an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that bars the military from using any funds to transfer suspected terrorists to jails on American soil, and the president remains stuck in a bind.
The White House just announced that Mitt Romney will be having lunch with President Obama tomorrow at the White House. That ugly campaign will make this whole thing awkward, right? Well, Obama told us exactly three weeks ago this would be happening.
Nate Silver jokes have truly reached saturation. At the annual turkey pardoning ceremony Wednesday afternoon, President Obama said the statistician "nailed it."
President Obama's visit to Myan;... Burma ... Myan Southeast Asia, and the country once known as Burma, got off to a rocky start when he referred to the nation, in talks with its president on Monday, as Myanmar.
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While Romney surrogate Chris Christie is making waves for the heaps of praise he's been giving the President all morning for his emergency preparedness, one guy who is unimpressed with the President's response is the old FEMA director who was in charge during Hurricane Katrina.
Saturday Night Live began its season premiere last night with a touching passing-of-the-torch moment when Fred Armisen literally handed off the Obama impersonation to Jay Pharoah.
President Obama gave his first extended television interview since the protests in Libya and Egypt to Telemundo on Wednesday night, and he took the opportunity to explain the U.S.'s role in the developing world while clarifying where the country stands with Egypt right now.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Republican nominee Mitt Romney, and now President Obama have all spoken about the murders in Libya.
The President was going to spoil MTV's biggest party of the year on Thursday night, so they're just going to start and finish an hour earlier than they usually do instead of going head-to-head against him. That's not very rock n' roll, guys.
President Obama wasn't offended by the 12-minute performance art piece Clint Eastwood did at the Republican National Convention. He's still a big fan of the Man with No Name.
Obama held a fundraiser with some of his personal heroes in New York on Wednesday night, but that didn't stop him from joking that Todd Akin played hookie during science class, or from making a bunch of basketball analogies about November's election.
A Washington man was arrested on Tuesday for threatening President Obama in emails sent to the F.B.I. When Secret Service agents went to his house to arrest him, he charged at them with a shotgun in hand.
Jan Brewer signed an executive order on Wednesday denying driver's licenses and other public benefits to anyone benefitting from Obama's immigration policy that finally took effect today.
Mitt Romney gave a speech in Ohio accusing the Democrats of running a "campaign of division and anger and hate," on Tuesday night, so the Obama campaign called him crazy instead of the usual telling him to stop complaining.
Remember when Mitt Romney's old roof-riding, diarrhea-suffering dog, Seamus, was a thing? He even made the cover of the New Yorker! He got a small revival today thanks to a speech President Obama gave in Iowa, and Devo. Yes, Devo.
We're three months away from election day and the President is taking the weekend off from the campaign trail. It is for a pretty good reason, though. He's turning 51. Happy Birthday, Mr. President.
President Obama apparently gave the go-ahead for U.S. intelligence agencies to do everything they can to get Bashar al-Assad out of power in Syria, short of supplying weapons to the rebel forces, according to a new Reuters report.
This billboard got a lot of media attention this weekend for its meme-style juxtaposition of President Obama and Aurora-shooter James Holmes.
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