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  • Obama Unveils Plan to Fight Gun Violence with Stricter Laws

    Setting the stage for what could be the most sweeping political battle over gun control in decades, President Obama today laid out a comprehensive package for reducing gun violence in America, a multi-part plan he says will not only "help prevent mas...
  • Kids Write Letters to President Obama on Gun Control

    This morning the White House released handwritten letters to the President from some of the children who will be at the White House when President Obama unveils his plan to prevent gun violence.  The kids offer their own ideas on gun control &md...
  • Police Officer Leaves Infant to Die in Hot Car

    A District of Columbia police officer embroiled in a paternity suit fatally shot his mistress before leaving their infant child to die in an overheated car, prosecutors said as the officer's murder trial opened Monday.
    Richmond Phillips committed th...
  • Missing Girl's Body Believed to be Found, Police Expect to ID Today

    Police investigating the disappearance of a 10-year-old Las Vegas girl expect to know Friday if it was her body that was found in an undeveloped housing tract.
    Authorities couldn't immediately confirm that the body belonged to Jade Morris when it wa...
  • Watch: Michelle Obama Reads 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'

    Earlier this month, First Lady Michelle Obama paid a visit to the patients of Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. to spread some holiday cheeck in a tradition that dates as far back as the 1950s.
    Michelle, accompanied by First Dog...
  • First Lady Michelle Obama Pens Open Letter to Newtown

    First Lady Michelle Obama offered some written words of comfort for the families of Newtown, Connecticut who are mourning the deaths of the victims from the horrific shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Read her open letter below...
  • Remembering Sandy Hook Victims: Ana Marquez-Greene

    More reports and details are being released about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary that took the lives of 20 children on December 14. On Sunday, President Obama visited Newtown, Connecticut where he visited families of the victims and spoke at a...
  • Obama Reacts 'As a Parent' to Connecticut School Shooting

    President Obama came to tears as he addressed the tragic shooting that killed 26 people today at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut
    "We've endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years, and each time I hear the news I do not rea...
  • Tiny Texas Town Opens Its Homes to 76 Children In Need

    The tiny Texas town of Possum Trot has no stoplights, no street names -- and one huge heart.
    Over the last 16 years, 25 families in the working-class community have adopted 76 children in need, opening their homes in a town that is struggling financ...
  • Gabby Douglas Talks About Being Homeless and a Bully Victim in Her New Book

    Gabrielle Douglas was one of the shining stars of the 2012 Olympics. But the gymnast's journey to the top of podium in London this past summer wasn't an easy one.
    As the 16-year-old Douglas recalled in her new book, "Grace, Gold & Glory," she st...