Michelle Obama and “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon turned the White House into a playground to promote the first lady’s “Let’s Move!” fitness campaign.
Mrs. Obama and Fallon did pushups and twirled hula hoops. They competed at dodge ball and tug-of-war. And the first lady triumphed over the comedian in a climactic potato sack race.
After a [...]
The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer’s research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the aging baby-boom generation.
Not all the spending must wait for approval from Congress: Under the plan being announced Tuesday, the National Institutes of Health will devote [...]
President Barack Obama says one of the toughest parts about being president is that his wife has been dragged into the “political realm.”
Obama was responding to a question about how he felt when Michelle Obama said she has been inaccurately portrayed as an “angry black woman.” While the president did not address that comment specifically, [...]
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will host a Feb. 29 dinner at the White House honoring members of the armed forces who served in Iraq.
White House spokesman Jay Carney announced the event Monday during his briefing for reporters.
Carney said the dinner will focus on men and women who served in Iraq in [...]
A relative of Barack Obama says the president’s step-grandmother suffered minor injuries after a car she was traveling in rolled over.
The relative said Monday that Sarah Obama was traveling to her home in the village of Kogelo, in western Kenya, when the accident happened Saturday night.
He said the vehicle lost control and rolled as the [...]
