Vacationing U.S. President Barack Obama interrupted a golf game on Monday and sped back to his holiday house after the child of friends was hurt in a beach accident. President Obama is on vacation in Hawaii, the island state where he grew up.

President Obama warned Monday that the United States would respond aggressively to terrorism such as last week’s botched attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack on a plane about to land in the U.S., saying it was in retaliation for alleged U.S. strikes on Yemeni soil.

The Senate passed a $871 billion health care reform bill Thursday morning, handing President Obama a Christmas Eve victory on his top domestic priority. The bill passed in a 60-39 party line vote after months of heated partisan debate. Every member of the Democratic caucus backed the measure; every Republican opposed it.

Ann Nixon Cooper, the 107-year-old Atlanta woman whose name President Barack Obama invoked when he gave his historic election speech last year, has passed away.

Health care reform moved a major step closer to reality Monday when the Senate voted before dawn to overcome a Republican filibuster against a sweeping $871 billion health care bill. The procedural vote virtually ensures the bill’s final approval by the chamber later this week.

President Obama was in Oslo, Norway today to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. To find out more on this story continue reading.

President Obama and the Obama family participated in their first lighting of the National Christmas Tree on Thursday. The lighting of the tree is a tradition that dates back to the Coolidge administration in 1923.

<strong>President Obama</strong> announced the <strong>deployment</strong> of another <strong>30,000 troops</strong> to <strong>Afghanistan</strong> in a Tuesday night <strong>speech</strong> at the <strong>U.S. Military Academy</strong> at <strong>West Point, New York</strong>.<!--more-->

<strong>President Obama</strong> plans to announce <strong>tonight</strong> that he will begin to transition <strong>American forces</strong> out of <strong>Afghanistan</strong> beginning in July <strong>2011</strong>, setting the first time frame to wind down the war there nearly a decade after the United States first sent troops in to topple the <strong>Taliban</strong> government.<!--more-->

On his last day in <strong>China</strong>, <strong>President Obama</strong> did what many <strong>U.S. presidents</strong> before him have done: He went to see the <strong>Great Wall</strong>, calling the historic structure "spectacular."<!--more-->

Watch <strong>President Obama's Veterans Day speech</strong> at <strong>Arlington National Cemetery</strong>.<!--more-->

One year after the historic election of <strong>President Barack Obama</strong>, CNN, HLN and Essence Magazine are taking an unprecedented look at his impact on black men in America. Be sure to watch <strong>"Black Men in the Age of President Obama,"</strong> on CNN, this Saturday, Oct. 31 at 10 p.m. ET. <!--more-->