As controversy swirled around his speech to the nation's schoolchildren, President Obama told students Tuesday to take responsibility for their education, go to class and listen and not let failures define them.
Obama delivered his speech at a school in Virginia where he was greeted by a raucous crowd of students. He encouraged them to maintain their focus and use school as a way to succeed despite their background.
A day after a rally was held in front of the firehouse where an alleged sexual misconduct took place in involving several Atlantic City fire fighters and three juvenile city girls, Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford is calling for a restart to the investigation.
Langford halted the investigation into the allegations last week at the request of the county prosecutor after receiving a warning that releasing information would jeopardize the law enforcement investigation.
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Tuesday that statements he made on secret FBI wiretap tapes were taken out of context by prosecutors and that he might try to call senators and a top White House official as witnesses at his racketeering and fraud trial to back his version of events.
he might even try to subpoena President Barack Obama as a witness at his trial,
The former governor, whose trial is scheduled to begin June 3, said he expects to be cleared of charges that he tried to sell or trade Obama's former Senate seat for campaign money or a high-paying job for his wife or himself.
A White House panel of independent space experts says NASA's return-to-the-moon plan just won't fly.
The problem is money. The expert panel estimates it would cost about $3 billion a year beyond NASA's current $18 billion annual budget.
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