Michelle Obama

If the world has an impoverished president, it may be Jose Mujica, the current head of state in Uruguay, the South American nation of some 3.3 million people that's about the size of Washington state. As BBC News reports, President Mujica (pictured above) shunned the luxurious house that Uruguay provides for ...

By Nancy Benac WASHINGTON -- First lady Michelle Obama is traveling to the electoral battleground of Florida on Wednesday to announce that 2,000 businesses around the country have hired or trained more than 125,000 military veterans and spouses in the past year, exceeding a White House goal of 100,000 by ...

By Julie Pace HAMPTON, Va. (AP) -- President Barack Obama is employing the services of the first lady on the final leg of his three-day bus tour as they tout proposals in the president's jobs bill that the White House says would put more of the nation's unemployed veterans back to work. ...

Wal-Mart's reputation among women has taken a battering in the last decade, embroiled in a class action lawsuit on behalf of 1.6 million female employees, the biggest civil rights case in history. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately rejected the suit this summer. The female workers didn't have enough in ...

Starting this month, first lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden are launching a major initiative calling on all Americans to support our military families, and in collaboration, AOL is sponsoring a special event the first week of April. The goal of this event is to bring awareness to the challenges military ...