The Obamas have released a new official first family portrait, the work of America’s most celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz.

United States President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Obama said he was surprised and deeply humbled by the honor, and planned to travel to Oslo to accept the award.

An online poll which asked if President Barack Obama should be assassinated is being investigated by the United States Secret Service. The survey, posted on Facebook over the weekend, was immediately removed after company officials were alerted to its existence.

President Barack Obama, in his first speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, said the United States is ready to address challenges ranging from nuclear proliferation to global economic prosperity. However, he told world leaders that America could no longer be expected to provide solutions alone.

It’s been 8 years since the airline-hijacking terrorists attacked the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. Today, September 11, the same day of the attack, U.S. President Barack Obama together with high-ranking members of the his administration fanned out across the country to take part in the first official National Day of Service and Remembrance.

Republican South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” after Obama denied that his health care proposal would cover illegal immigrants during his health care speech to the Congress.

The speech was delivered at Wakefield High School in suburban Arlington, Virginia and was met along the way with protests from some conservative Republican parents.

Have you seen the Obama “I Pledge” video? Well, parents are outraged after a Utah elementary school showed the clip to schoolchildren, which consists of celebrities pledging support for the president’s policies.

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso told a news conference Monday that he will resign as head of the nation’s ruling party after a crushing defeat in Sunday’s parliamentary election.

In a eulogy to Sen. Edward Kennedy on Saturday, President Barack Obama described him as “a champion for those who had none; the soul of the Democratic Party; and the lion of the U.S. Senate.”

Sen. Edward Kennedy, the youngest brother of the famous U.S. political dynasty, has died aged 77. His death comes just two weeks after his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, passed away.