BARACK OBAMA

The White House will be forced to comment on gun-control petitions that have gained momentum since the mass shooting at a Connecticut school Friday.

In the wake of Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., White House spokesman Jay Carney said now is not the time to discuss gun control, but across the Internet, that's exactly what people are doing.

Once again, Democrats and advocates ask the president to act.

U.S. President Barack Obama rarely talks about gun control. The latest massacre may change that.

A visibly upset U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., but makes no mention of gun control.

When President Obama finally sat down with the media to discuss marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington he was hesitant on concrete answers but did say prosecution would not be a top priority of the government.

Obama is reacting to mass shooting at Danbury school as details still need to unfold about the number of fatalities.

Jamie Foxx, who stars in the upcoming Tarantino Film, "Django Unchained," moved like Jagger while on the "Late Show" with David Letterman.

Economist Krugman says the Republican Party has reached the end of a 30-year cycle of failed conservative policies, and it doesn't know how to deal with failure.

President Barack Obama says there are "bigger fish to fry" than recreational pot users.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is unlikely to be able to stay in power, a senior NATO official has said.

The embattled secretary of state candidate, criticized by Republicans over the Benghazi attack, steps aside.

Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador for the U.N., withdrew her name Thursday from consideration to be secretary of state in the face of implacable opposition from Senate Republicans.

Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration as U.S. secretary of state on Thursday in the face of what promised to be a difficult Senate confirmation battle.

A suicide bomber killed one American service member and wounded three other U.S. troops outside a base in southern Afghanistan on Thursday shortly after a visit there by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, officials said.

Here’s some good news for the travel industry, bad news for you: It’s going to be the busiest holiday season in six years.

An 18-year-old Peruvian intern will face deportation for allegedly being a sex offender while working on a visa.

The Senate's outgoing tea party patron reminds us why he's leaving.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have begun to fire Scud ballistic missiles at the rebels, says a U.S. official.

The U.S. and international Friends of Syria group threw their support behind the Free Syrian army, bolstering the opposition.

The federal government has an outdated and chaotic system for organizing secret national security information, the Public Interest Declassification Board reports.