Remarks by President Obama at 20th anniversary of Points of Light, Texas A&M University, as provided by the White House THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. So, howdy,...

Around the world, reaction to President Obama's surprising selection to receive the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize has been as varied as in this country, and perhaps as partisan. The English-language...

What a difference a week makes. Last Friday, despite pleas by Oprah and the Obamas, an Olympics that was (in many U.S. citizens' minds) rightfully ours was awarded to the second-largest city of...

In a stunner, the International Olympic Committee dropped Chicago from contention for the 2016 Summer Games in the first round of voting today. Tokyo was eliminated in the second round. No word...

For three hours the other day, the president's chief military adviser on Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChyrstal, joined a strategy session in the White House Situation Room by video hookup. The...

  The timing had to be awkward. Just as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was wowing crowds in a book tour for "Going Rogue," her one-time almost son-in-law Levi Johnston -- the father of her grandson, Tripp -- celebrated a publication of his own --...

Rhode Island Democrat Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, has, like his father, long been a public supporter of abortion rights. Because of his stance on abortion, Bishop Thomas Tobin, the archbishop of the Providence...

David Obey came to Congress in 1969, a young Democratic congressman from Wisconsin, opposed to the Vietnam War and mindful of the funding it was draining from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. Thirty years later, he is chairman of the House...

Not that it matters politically because obviously she's a female Republican dunce and he's obviously a male Democrat genius. But Sarah Palin's poll numbers are strengthening. And President Obama's are sliding. Guess what? They're about to meet in...

ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos: Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Reps. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), and a round table with ABC's George Will, Liz Cheney, Aspen Institute's Walter...