
Arwa Damon reports on her rare visit with opposition fighters in Syria…

From whitehouse.gov: President Obama calls on Americans to speak out to keep taxes from going up on middle class families.

Celebrities including CeeLo Green, Il Volo, Tony Bennett and Victoria Justice got into the holiday spirit Wednesday at the 80th annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree-lighting ceremony.

Reuters: President Barack Obama gave a show of moral support to his embattled ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday, calling Susan Rice “extraordinary” and prompting applause from his Cabinet during a meeting at the White House. Rice, who is

Republican leaders in the House say they want to work with President Barack Obama to overcome the so-called fiscal cliff, automatic spending cuts and tax hikes. But doing this means tackling the country’s spending problem, they say.

The online version of China’s Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the “Sexiest Man Alive” – apparently unaware it is satire.

President Barack Obama will host his former political rival Mitt Romney for a private lunch at the White House Thursday, their first meeting since the election.

Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.) “This is going to go down as the biggest cover-up in history, They all knew it, they were all hoping it’d go away.”

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) “I continue to be troubled by the fact that the UN ambassador decided to play what was essentially a political role at the height of a contentious presidential election … by agreeing to go on the

From Al Jazeera English: The UK government has unveiled plans for a minimum price for alcohol in England and Wales. It is part of a drive to tackle binge drinking by recommending a minimum price of 65 cents on a

President Barack Obama welcomed President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico to the White House to mark his election. Nieto invited the the US President to Mexico for an official visit. President Obama replied, “Any excuse to visit Mexico, I’m game.”

Jay Carney: “Nobody in their right mind would want to go through what we went through last summer — summer of 2011 — where holding the full faith and credit of the United States hostage to an ideological agenda proved

Jay Carney told the White House press pool that the President is focused on finding out exactly what happened in Benghazi and how to prevent another attack from happening. When asked about contradictory reports coming from top US agencies yesterday

Jay Carney said that any focus on where Ambassador Rice got her talking points or who edited them, as well as what she knew when she mislead the American people on Sunday shows days after the Benghazi attack on the

President Obama wanted to assure the American people today that he was doing his part in moving the fiscal cliff negotiations forward. He said that he had traveled extensively, talked to congressional leaders and also talked to multiple middle-class Americans.

President Obama gave a speech today encouraging Republicans to pass a Senate bill allowing a tax hike on the top earnings in the economy. Obama said that his rhetoric probably “sounds familiar” because “we talked a lot about this during

Tear gas has been repeatedly fired at protesters in Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday. The protesters are angry about President Mohammed Morsi’s seizure of near absolute powers.

Justice Antonin Scalia has spent 26 years as a conservative leader on the Supreme Court. In a rare interview, he spoke to Charlie Rose about some of the court’s most controversial rulings — including the decision upholding President Obama’s Affordable