Sunday evening, President Obama delivered an emotional speech at an interfaith vigil in Newtown, Connecticut for the 27 victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. The speech paid tribute to the victims, their families and the first responders, and addressed the need for change, although Obama stopped short of mentioning actual policy. He ended the speech by reciting the names of the young victims, at which point there were audible sobs from the audience.

Probably the most widely viewed Twitter trending topic in the United States right now is "#prayfornewton." The ad hoc hashtag is indicative of both the public's desire to show support for the victims in today's Connecticut school shooting—most of whom were children— but also our ignorance of what exactly happened at Sandy Hook Elementary: the shooting was in Newtown, not "Newton."

Barack Obama was sworn in as America's 44th president 1,425 days ago. Since then, five of the 12 deadliest mass shootings in our history have happened. Here they are, as well as other lesser mass gun-killings that happened under his watch.

President Obama adressed the nation this afternoon to react to the news about the shooting in Sandy Hook. Tearing up, he said:

President Barack Obama has accepted UN Ambassador Susan Rice's request to remove her name from secretary of state consideration.

Conservative voters have always tried to claim that Barack Obama is a secret Muslim or a private athiest — sometimes he's both at the same time. But new analysis shows that the religiously unaffiliated among us are one of the President's biggest backers.

Tonight, of course, marks the first night of Hanukkah and Jewish children everywhere are getting ready to receive their first pairs of socks.

On Friday, the White House flickr account posted this Election Night photo of President Obama, accepting Governor Mitt Romney's concession via cell phone.

Under threat of the impending fiscal cliff, President Obama held a town hall-style Q&A today on the official White House Twitter account. Currently lawmakers are stalled out on negotiations to prevent automatic tax hikes from taking effect January 1. The Q&A's stated mission was to inform the public about the impact of the fiscal cliff — which it did. But really it was PR. "Look, the President uses the internet and is cool and is friends with Jay-Z and Beyoncé. Does John Boehner do that?"

In a move only slightly more subtle than the Roots' selection of Fishbone's "Lyin' Ass Bitch" to play in Michele Bachmann during a visit to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last year, the White House served "White Turkey Chili" for Mitt Romney's lunch with Barack Obama today.

Odds are, at some point in your life you will have to break bread with someone you don't like.

At the height of his pre-election anti-Obama hysteria, bloviating billionaire Donald Trump was reportedly approached by three of his kids and asked to tone down his risky rhetoric.

This November's foreign policy debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney left many Americans realizing that the two candidate's policies were pretty similar, regardless of their thoughts about bayonets. But no matter how alike their policies seemed to the average citizen, President Obama apparently wasn't okay with the thought of a Romney kill list or having the former Massachusetts governor having free rein over America's army of unmanned drones.

The White House is putting its annual turkey pardon to a Facebook poll, allowing anyone to vote on which turkey—Cobbler or Gobbler—will be blessed by Obama this Thanksgiving. But what could have been a profound glimpse into the very heart of Death is just a meaningless gimmick, because neither turkey is actually at risk of being killed.

Pour Michelle a big glass of white wine and light that one candle that I like ("cotton breeze") because Obama treated foreign policy decisions like Bachelor Rose Ceremony decisions this weekend, and we need to Talk About It.

Thanks to his penis, Gen. David Petraeus is the central figure in what is arguably the biggest political scandal of 2012, but he's no stranger to controversies. You may remember back in 2007, when MoveOn.org ran a full-page ad in the New York Times that asked, "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" This incredibly innocuous and obvious pun — and MoveOn's point-by-point criticism of Petraeus below the headline — naturally exploded in the world of haughty Republican dipshits.

Gymnast, Olympic gold medalist and Meme of the Year creator McKayla Maroney visited the White House on Saturday morning along with the rest of the U.S. Women's gymnastics team. While in the Oval Office, the two did their best interpretation of the state of Ohio's feelings towards Mitt Romney for the entirety of the 2012 election.

There have been no shortage of sore losers in the aftermath of last week's presidential election, but Pinetop, Arizona, may be home to the sorest loser of them all.

When it comes to incendiary attacks against President Obama, top Virginia GOP official Bob FitzSimmonds has his Republican colleagues beat.

Last month, the watchdog group Better Georgia managed to record nearly a full hour of a four-hour closed door meeting of Republican state senators which was convened by Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) to discuss President Obama's efforts to brainwash Americans on behalf of the United Nations.