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Michelle Obama has garnered heaps of media coverage for her fashion sense, her smile, her charm, her buff arms. And now, just in time for the Christmas shopping rush, the magic that is Michelle is being captured in 6-inch-high likenesses made from phthalate-free PVC.
One by one, gleaming motorcades pulled up outside of a white-columned home on a farm just outside this city, each depositing the wife of a foreign leader here for an economic summit. Inside, Michelle Obama waited for her first turn as international hostess.
Michelle Childers, 20, was enjoying a weekend drive with her husband when a tree branch, more than an inch thick and 18 inches long, came through the window and lodged in her neck. Surgeons took six hours to remove it. “I don’t know how I’m still alive,” she said Friday.
Michelle Duggar was surprised to learn that just eight months after she gave birth to her 18th child, another is on the way. "We are thrilled that we're expecting our 19th," she said Tuesday. It will arrive after the Duggars’ first grandchild.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will preside over the ninth National Book Festival, a daylong celebration of the joys of reading and literacy, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 26, on the National Mall.
There’s a new Duggar on the way, but this time it’s not Michelle Duggar adding another to her brood of 18 children. Instead, it’s a grandchild expected by the oldest son and his wife of seven months.
In her first major interview since moving into the White House, first grandmother Marian Robinson seemed less impressed with the fact that her son-in-law is president than with the job he’s doing as the head of a family that includes two young daughters.
It's been billed as one of the major face-offs of the NATO summit, and it had nothing to do with troops in Afghanistan or relations with Russia.
Fashion designer Jason Wu says the inauguration ball dress he designed for President Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, grew out of his childhood fascination with dolls.
The estranged wife of a financier accused of attempting to fake his own death to escape charges of defrauding investors says she was blindsided by the charges against him, his unsuccessful flight from justice and the discovery that he was having an affair.
With her Ivy League law degree, Michelle Obama is more like Hillary Clinton than Laura Bush. But the style she is forging as first lady falls somewhere in between both of her immediate predecessors.
Michelle Obama's predecessors have carved out enough different roles as first lady that she is now free to fashion the job in a way that suits her. The first lady will take her time defining her new role, but already she's dropping clues.
How will the President-elect make time for his family? That's the burning question weekly magazines are eagerly attempting to answer, whether the source is President-elect Barack Obama himself, or an array of nameless insiders.
Michelle Obama is already poised to set trends in the fashion industry, following in the footsteps of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy as a style icon. While joining her husband on the campaign trail, she created quite a buzz with her polished professional pieces and easygoing off-duty duds. But while it may seem effortless, there’s more to Mrs. Obama’s style than meets the eye.
The Duggars are back with more answers to your parenting questions. Here, Jim Bob and Michelle — who recently became parents for the 18th time — offer their secrets to managing such a large brood.
Readers have a lot of questions about how Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar manage to raise their 17 kids without going broke. Here, the busy couple fields questions about living debt-free, preparing for grandkids and more (including a crowd-pleasing recipe!).
Among the many challenges Michelle Obama will face as first lady, the biggest may be defining the job.
It's no secret that Jim Bob and Michelle are a busy duo — so how do they manage the needs of such a large family? Here, the couple answer reader questions about how to handle picky eaters, reduce paper product costs and more.
Michelle: We buy in bulk. We try to buy as healthy as we can; buy whole grain as much as possible. Whole grains are very filling but stretch the dollar. For example, we buy whole-grain brown rice. We can cook a meal of rice and add a little bit of meat and veggies and stretch the meal and fill our tummies. We also make our own homemade bread — we buy a 50-pound bag of wheat.
Anyone looking to gauge the importance of blacks in the Democratic presidential primary next weekend only needed to visit one church service Sunday morning.
War Between Michelle Obama and Oprah?A distraught Oprah Winfrey is telling pals her "thank you" for helping Barack Obama win the presidency has been a knife in the back. A jealous first lady has frozen the talk queen out of the White House inner circle, say insiders. "Oprah is devastated," revealed a friend.
Crane smashes Through Santa Rosa, California House: Video of Scene"A crane . . . toppled backward and sliced a Santa Rosa home nearly in half" on November 16, 2009.
Barack Obama: The President Whose Words Once Soared WASHINGTON — As the most gifted orator of his generation, President Obama finds speechmaking perhaps his most potent political tool. It propelled him to national prominence in 2004 and to the White House in 2008.
Bringing Down BachmannThe far right's star House member just hit the headlines with a rowdy health-care rally on Capitol Hill. Benjamin Sarlin reports on the Democrats lining up in Minnesota to send Michele Bachmann into early retirement.
Why Michele Bachmann Is Like a Five-Year-Old As some form of health care reform nears passage, folks on the far right are getting increasingly frantic. Enter Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who pitched a real tantrum in an interview with the Washington News Observer.
Democrats Report Strong Fundraising for 2010 Run Against BachmannBoth Democrats seeking the nomination to run against Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) have reported strong fundraising totals -- though they'll first have to spend it in competition for the Dem nod.
Conservatives Pounce On Michelle Obama: Meningitis Remarks A Lie?It seemed to be a perfect example of a tasteless political fib: Michelle Obama invoking a heart-wrenching but untrue story about her daughter Sasha's medical woes.
Change and Hope: The Olympic FiascoI think most Americans were rooting for Chicago. As I wrote on NRO's corner, I know I was. But Rio had a really convincing hope and change/ multicultural/new guy on the block case.
Silvio Berlusconi targets Michelle Obama in new 'suntan' gibeMaybe the Republicans should make the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi an honorary tea bagger.
Hi-Ho, the Derry-O - Michelle's little "shopping" trip.Let's say you're preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don't have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do? Here's how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:
"Tea Party" photo shows huge crowd...at different eventIn the competitive world of Washington protests, crowd size is often a matter of dispute. Organizers usually boast of huge crowds, while police and the news media offer much smaller estimates.
Rep. Bachmann: Dems Want To Sabotage Me Because I Might Become President | Media Matters Action NetworkBachmann for President, the mind boggles! There are links in the article on some of Bachmann's ideas including her famous "slit your wrists, Anti-american, Armed and Dangerous, Re-Education camps"and more...
Obama girls' summer vacation: GlobalIn the elite circles of private schools in Washington, D.C., globe-trotting vacations are common, but it is hard to imagine that many schoolmates of Malia and Sasha Obama will be able to rival their summer adventures.
Michelle Obama Receives Criticism for Wearing ShortsMichelle Obama took a lot of flak for baring her arms in February, but now she may be the first first lady to descend the steps of Air Force One (or appear in public for that matter) in short shorts. After all, can you imagine Laura Bush or Patricia Nixon doing the same?
'Death to Obama' sign holder in Md. detainedBoy, stop! People need to get their minds right. I can understand not agreeing with someone's policies, but to call for their death, their wife's death, and the death of their two children is insane. From the article:
Barack Obama proves to be mortal husband - President Barack Obama, who has seemed to set an impossibly high bar for many men when it comes to dealing with their wives, has finally stumbled — and in a very public way
Never have I seen so much hate garnered at the First Family. I hear claims from others that say, "Oh, you guys insulted Bush so we can do it too!", yet I never have seen the Bush family insulted as much as the Obama family is.
YouTube - First Lady Michelle Obama calls on you to serve!!Get a load of this.... Michelle Obama makes a speech about community service that all Americans should get involved in. Today marks "United We Serve" the administrations nationwide summer of service intuitive. You can go to www.serve.gov to get started she said and share ideas.
An end to the Obama love affair :: Tara WallObama Kills A Fly." "FLOTUS In The Garden." "The Obama Diet." These aren't tabloid tales. These are a few of the headlines - just from one day - by journalists who regularly cover the Obama administration.
Sarkozy entertains Michelle and the girls after Obama heads homeHe failed to persuade Barack Obama to socialise with him, but Nicolas Sarkozy enjoyed a consolation prize yesterday: lunch with the President's wife Michelle and their children.
World news Feed Article | World news | guardian.co.ukThe French seem to like the Obama, all four of them.
Michelle Obama misses life without scrutinyFirst lady Michelle Obama misses life without the constant commentary, but says she does what works for her since there's always someone who thinks she could have done something better.
Michelle Obama misses life without scrutinyFirst lady Michelle Obama misses life without the constant commentary, but says she does what works for her since there's always someone who thinks she could have done something better.
The Craziest Woman In The House She has a regular habit of making wild, off-the-cuff, false, distorted, unsubstantiated subjective statements which always seem to land her in hot water.
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