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Prime-time newcomer Jay Leno says he would have rather stayed put at "The Tonight Show" - and if NBC offered him that job again, he'd take it.

President Barack Obama paid tribute to soldiers and civilians who rushed to the aid of fallen comrades during a deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, that he called a oea crime against our nation.a The president and Michelle Obama will travel to Fort Hood Nov.

Rabbi Capers Funnye, the cousin of American First Lady Michelle Obama, is in Israel for his first visit as a guest of the Jewish Agency.

It's the day before Halloween, and on the set of Sesame Street, the usual trickery is underway.

Whether it's nurturing a vegetable garden in the White House or tending to their children's needs amid all their work, the Obamas are like any other American family, juggling personal and professional lives, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer said here Friday.

New York's OBIE Award-winning Epic Theatre Ensemble's Shakespeare Remix after-school program is being nationally recognized with the prestigious 2009 Coming Up Taller Award.

MILAN -- The design team at Moschino, led by Rossella Jardini, didn't even realize that Michelle Obama was wearing one of the company's ensembles the first few times it happened. She'd selected a chartreuse suit for a campaign rally in Iowa. But she'd cinched the belt, which had been sold with the collarless, hip-length jacket, in a pleasingly eccentric manner. It was tied in a bow and then adorned with an abstract brooch that looked vaguely Native American. Later, at the Democratic National Convention, she wore the jacket with black trousers. And without a belt. The result was to render the suit virtually unrecognizable to its own designer. Not that that was a bad thing.

An official for Alberta Health Services has apologized for giving the Calgary Flames swine flu shots while thousands of people waited in line for the vaccine last week.

A look at key issues in the nation's health care debate: THE ISSUE: How much more can insurers charge people based on age, sex and pre-existing conditions, and would that change if the health system is overhauled? THE POLITICS: Charging women, the elderly and people who already have health problems higher rates for health insurance is based on the ...

The show has made such an impact that the world can be divided into pre- and post- "Sesame Street" people.

Continuing her promotion of eating healthy, first lady Michelle Obama visits "Sesame Street," where she plants vegetable seeds with Elmo, Big BirdA and several young gardeners.

Exactly one year ago today, on the night of November 4th, 2008, Barack Obama was elected the next President of the United States.

On a visit to the Energy Department on Thursday, first lady Michelle Obama quizzed middle-school students about red blood cells and nanotechnology during a practice science quiz competition.

Dale Haney is the keeper of the White House grounds. In nearly 40 years of keeping the grass green and the flowers blooming, he's also managed to cultivate something just as important: relationships with the presidents' pooches.

A student at Pittsburgh's Creative and Performing Arts School performed at the White House at the request of first lady Michelle Obama.

Classical music took over the White House on Wednesday as Barack and Michelle Obama used two concerts and a series of workshops for young musicians to send a clear message that the music of the masters isn't just for stuffed shirts.

The Food Network announced Wednesday that an episode of "Iron Chef America" will be taped at the White House featuring Mario Batali, Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse.

America's First Couple have eaten a meal prepared by Jamie Oliver and visited New York's high-ranking Blue Duck Tavern this year for their wedding anniversary, so it's only fiting that the local-food crusading Obamas are set to factor heavily in North America's favourite culinary pastime: Iron Chef America .

A Sesame Street anniversary and Big Bird's birthday is today. The Sesame Street anniversary is a huge anniversary.