Simon says America was shaped by the great deeds of ordinary men and women.

Obama asks Americans to tackle "festering problems we have kicked down the road for far too long."

Away from the cameras, Michelle Obama has made it a practice to almost every week visit some worthy non-profit.

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Skeptics say Friday’s events diminished and perhaps demolished Palin's 2012 presidential hopes.

pSome political insiders questioned the political wisdom of her decision to quit in the middle of her first term as governor while others were reluctant to bet against her popularity./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/foxnews/politics/~4/fFaa99RE-5U" height="1" width="1"/

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate in 2008, said on Friday she will resign this month, an unexpected move that could signal a run for higher office.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/PoliticsNews?a=OrmCTcRmC0E:0A7NLquz134:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/PoliticsNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/PoliticsNews?a=OrmCTcRmC0E:0A7NLquz134:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/PoliticsNews?i=OrmCTcRmC0E:0A7NLquz134:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/PoliticsNews?a=OrmCTcRmC0E:0A7NLquz134:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/PoliticsNews?i=OrmCTcRmC0E:0A7NLquz134:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/PoliticsNews/~4/OrmCTcRmC0E" height="1" width="1"/

She will give serious consideration to running for president in 2012, but has made no decision, friends tell POLITICO.

pGen. David Petraeus, best known for coordinating the troop surge in Iraq that is credited with reducing that country's violence, cautioned that the Taliban are resilient fighters./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/foxnews/politics/~4/-vucfM-s9yo" height="1" width="1"/

Sarah Palin's announcement that she's stepping down as Alaska's governor could be a sign that she's gearing up for a run at the presidency in 2012, Howard Fineman writes.

pSome political insiders questioned the political wisdom of her decision to quit in the middle of her first term as governor while others were reluctant to bet against her popularity./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/foxnews/politics/~4/XxNqHCkQjec" height="1" width="1"/

pThe President says Kenya, plagued by political violence, still has a long way to go in becoming a free and open democracy/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/foxnews/politics/~4/IOkX6igjDPA" height="1" width="1"/