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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk from the White House with their daughters Sasha Obama, second from left, and Malia Obama.

States can ask for another year before using student test results to decide whether to keep or fire teachers, Education Secretary Arne Duncan told school chiefs on Tuesday.

An ongoing legal battle between wrestler-turned-governor Jesse Ventura and American Sniper Chris Kyle over an incident in Kyle's best-selling autobiography did not end with the Navy SEAL's death in February.

President Obama is defending National Security Agency surveillance programs, and disputing the notion that he is following in the footsteps of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

"All the past we leave behind." So insisted America's poet, Walt Whitman, a man who would not be encompassed by any one identity - who refused to be constrained by birth, by place, by experience.

A sign is seen outside the Courthouse One Expeditionary Legal Complex at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Monday, June 17, 2013, as Military Commission preliminary hearings reconvened in the case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his fellow 911 co-conspirators.

A sign is seen outside the Courthouse One Expeditionary Legal Complex at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Monday, June 17, 2013, as Military Commission preliminary hearings reconvened in the case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his fellow 911 co-conspirators.

President Barack Obama said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has stayed in his post "longer than he wanted," one of the clearest signals the central bank chief will leave when his current term expires next year.

Emir H323 was a brave and devoted war dog who served four deployments with the 447th Air Expeditionary Wing.

If reports of political targeting of conservatives by the Internal Revenue Service shocked the nation, they didn't seem that surprising to many other groups who experienced problems with the tax agency in the past.

On Saturday, a plane carrying former President George W. Bush was diverted to Louisville, Ky., after the pilot smelled smoke, CNN reported.

Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.

There's a covert war that has been fought by the U.S. government over the past decade.

President George W. Bush in 2008 is applauded after signing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act at the White House in Washington.

Then-U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker shakes hands with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on July 25, 2011.

Associated Press/U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Christopher DeWitt - In this Tuesday, June 12, 2013 photo, released Saturday, June 15, 2013, by the U.S. Air Force, an American flag hangs in front of a burning structure in the Black Forest, a thickly wooded rural region north of Colorado Springs, Colo.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that Edward Snowden betrayed his country by leaking classified documents about the U.S. government's surveillance programs and warned that the former National Security Agency contractor may be spying for the Chinese government.

To break the ice at this year's Middlesex Community College Celebrity Forum, Jenna Bush Hager emphasized her mother's lifelong commitment to knowledge by revealing how her mother, at age 10, named her pet Dewey -- after the Dewey Decimal System.

First lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama, former first lady Barbara Bush, former President George H.W. Bush and former President George W. Bush attend the opening ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center on Thursday, April 25 in Dallas.

A plane carrying former President George W. Bush was diverted to Louisville on Saturday night after the pilot reported the smell of smoke.