• President Obama Calls Jason Collins, Says He's 'Impressed By His Courage'

  04/30/2013

  President Barack Obama picked up the phone on Monday to call and offer his support to Jason Collins, the NBA player who had just publicly announced that he was gay. The president wished to express his support of Collins's decision to come out and to tell him that "he was impressed by his courage," a White House official confirmed to The Huffington Post.

• VIDEO: Sasha Obama Congratulates Dad Barack Obama For Not 'Messing Up'

  01/21/2013

  While Inauguration Day is underway this holiday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and hundreds of thousands of people are gathered outside the United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C., to watch President Barack Obama, 51, get sworn in for his second presidential term, the critics who count — Obama's family, wife Michelle Obama, 49, and daughters Malia, 14, and Sasha, 11, have already given their verdict.

• WATCH: President Bill Clinton Introduces 'Lincoln' At Golden Globes

  01/14/2013

  A distinctly non-Hollywood speaker, former President Bill Clinton, 66, stopped by the Golden Globes on Sunday night to introduce the nominated film, Lincoln, starring Daniel Day Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Hal Holbrook and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

• Barack Obama, Mitt Romney Roast Each Other At Al Smith Dinner

  10/19/2012

  President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney displayed their funny bones Thursday night in Manhattan at the 67th Alfred E. Smith Dinner, hosted by the Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The two candidates roasted each other — and themselves — in what turned out to be a fun affair, no doubt the last such occasion between the two candidates with a final debate less than a week away and an election looming.

• FUNNY: Celebs Tweet Their Thoughts On Final Presidential Debate, Horses And Bayonets

  10/23/2012

  Monday night's third and final presidential debate, ostensibly about foreign policy, may not have had too many surprises in store for viewers and soon-to-be voters in the presidential election, which will ultimately determine if Barack Obama steps into the oval office for a second term or if Mitt Romney sachets into his place, but there were some entertaining moments — not the least of which was the "horses and bayonets" comment by Obama, which became as much a theme of the third presidential debate as "binders full of women" became at the second one.

• Bill Clinton Talks DNC Speech, Mitt Romney On 'Daily Show' With Jon Stewart

  09/21/2012

  On Thursday night's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 49, guest Bill Clinton, 66, used his trademark charm to explain why he was so charming at the Democratic National Convention when his 49-minute speech upstaged everyone — even President Barack Obama, 51, who himself was so taken by the former President's address that he relayed a tweet from a follower who wrote, "you should appoint him 'secretary of explaining stuff.

• Honey Boo Boo Attacks Paparazzi ... With Silly String

  09/07/2012

  New TLC reality show sensation Alana Thompson, 7, otherwise known as Honey Boo Boo, the child beauty pageant contestant who stole the Toddlers & Tiaras show and then got her own — Here Comes Honey Boo Boo — is showing that she's got the edge it takes to be a celebrity.

• Hillary Clinton Watches Bill's DNC Speech From East Timor

  09/06/2012

  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 64, couldn't make it to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, last night to greet President Barack Obama, 51, and watch her husband, Bill Clinton, 66 make his speech, but she was there in spirit, watching Clinton's address from the island of East Timor 10,000 miles away, one stop on her current multi-country tour.

• Kal Penn Takes A Dig At Clint Eastwood At DNC

  09/05/2012

  Speaking at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, Kal Penn of the Harold & Kumar franchise couldn’t resist the opportunity to make fun of Clint Eastwood’s “invisible chair” rant at the Republican National Convention last week when Eastwood, 82, turned to an empty chair on his left, pretending it was President Barack Obama, and debated with the “president” seated next to him.

• Celebrities Flock To Democratic National Convention

  09/04/2012

  Clint Eastwood, 82, may have made headlines with his onstage semi-hallucination at the Republican National Convention when he spoke to an empty chair on behalf of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, but President Barack Obama is the one with the celebrity entourage, as the Democratic National Convention, which kicked off on Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, is sure to demonstrate.

• PETA Names Woody Harrelson And Jessica Chastain Sexiest Vegetarians

  06/29/2012

  Aside from being two of Hollywood's hottest, Oscar-nominated stars, Woody Harrelson and Jessica Chastain can both add "Sexiest Vegetarian" to the list of their accomplishments. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — or PETA, as they are known — put Harrelson and Chastain at the top of their "Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities" list, which is 100 names long! "Both trust their vegan diets to keep their skin camera-ready, their figures svelte, and their consciences clear," PETA writes on their web site.

• Doc Watson Dead At 89

  05/30/2012

  Grammy-award winning folk guitarist Doc Watson, 89, died Tuesday at a hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, according to USA Today. Blind since the age of 1, Watson recently underwent abdominal surgery that resulted in his hospitalization.

• Tom Hanks Narrates Barack Obama's 17-Minute Campaign Video

  03/16/2012

  The latest video from President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, narrated by Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks, was released on Thursday. Former President Bill Clinton, former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren are among those who appear in the video, which emphasizes Obama's vision for reducing consumer health care costs.

• Chelsea Clinton To Become Correspondent For NBC

  11/15/2011

  Chelsea Clinton, 31, has a new job. NBC has hired the former first daughter as a full-time correspondent, on which she will start out as part of the "Making a Difference" series, which runs on NBC Nightly News and features people who make meaningful contributions to their communities through volunteer work.

• Hillary Clinton's Mom Dorothy Rodham Dies At 92

  11/01/2011

  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's mother, Dorothy Howell Rodham, 92, died shortly after midnight on Tuesday in Washington with her daughter and other family at her side. Clinton had cancelled a scheduled trip overseas to be with her mother toward the end.

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