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Former First Lady Michelle Obama is opening up about her bond with the Secret Service agent who has been protecting her for more than a decade. ... “Allen is more like a brother than he is an agent,” Obama, 56, says at one point in the film, which premiered on Wednesday. “He was my first experience of having a detail — so that’s 12 years of a relationship, if not more.” “I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the back of his head,” she jokes

full title: 'It was a learning moment!' Michelle Obama reveals she once FLASHED a Secret Service agent when her dress suddenly blew up in the wind. According to Michelle, the incident served as a key lesson for her and her team - and they began to re-think their outfit choices moving forward. 'That was another outfit learning moment!' she joked. 'If it's windy, don't wear flouncy things. Wear a pencil skirt, or wear some pants.' 'So we started checking weather, and wind.

"My offer to Melania was, you really don't know what you don't know until you're here," she said. "The door is open, as I've told her, and as Laura Bush told me and as other first ladies told me." . . . "I'm not new in this 'going high' thing," Obama said. "I'm modeling what was done for me by the Bushes. Laura Bush was nothing but gracious."

The White House debuts its Christmas decorations for Obama's last holiday season - complete with a 300lb gingerbread house and Hillary Clinton's 'frosty' friends That's also where visitors will find the hefty, 300-pound gingerbread White House, made this year from 150 pounds of gingerbread covered in 100 pounds of bread dough. The Lower Cross Hall, where Hillary Clinton's portrait hangs, has been decorated with snowmen lining the corridor. . . . The first lady's 'Let's Move' anti-childhood obesity campaign is represented by the fruits, a nod to healthy eating, and laid out in the Green and Red Rooms upstairs on...

Michelle Obama kicked off her family's final Christmas season at the White House on Friday by receiving a 19-foot Balsam-Veitch fir from Wisconsin as the official White House Christmas tree. Joined by two young nephews instead of her teenage daughters, the first lady said she's ready and excited for the holiday. . . . Mrs. Obama explained that the appearance by her nephews "is what happens when you get teenagers," referring to 18-year-old Malia and 15-year-old Sasha, the daughters who in past years have joined her for the tradition of receiving the Christmas tree on the morning after Thanksgiving. "One's...

"There is no per­son in polit­ics that I think Demo­crats, in­de­pend­ents, and Re­pub­lic­ans would love to see take on pub­lic ser­vice more than the first lady," Thomas Bowen, a former top aide to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, told NJ's Karyn Bruggeman. . . . According to the report, Emanuel's seat could open in 2019, and Sen. Dick Durbin is considering a gubernatorial bid in 2018. "Ob­vi­ously she'd be qual­i­fied to run for just about any of­fice up and down the tick­et

The dress code policy at the White House is simple: Whatever Michelle Obama says goes. Speaking to Footwear News on Friday at Variety’s Power of Women ceremony in Los Angeles, Spanx founder Sara Blakely recalled walking around the White House without any shoes on after the first lady gave her the green light to relieve her aching feet. . . . ...by the time I finally got up to Michelle Obama, I literally burst out, ‘My feet are killing me,’ and she goes, ‘Girl, my feet are killing me, too.’ I asked if I can take my shoes off and...

Mr Obama will go to Saudi Arabia on April 21 to participate in a summit with leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates - hosted by King Salman. Mr Earnest said: "The President will then travel to the United Kingdom, where he will be received by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle for a private lunch.

First Lady Michelle Obama is featured in a new rap video about the importance of going to college, even lending her voice to part of the track. "Southside Chicago, we all know, we had to do overtime every night to make it tomorrow," she raps, highlighting her biography. "And everyone could really make their dream true. Hey, kid listenin’ in Michigan that could be you!"

Boston public schools will begin serving free lunches to all students this school year even if families have the financial means to pay, school officials are expected to announce Tuesday. The meal program, more than a year in the making, is part of an experimental federal initiative that aims to make it easier for students from low-income families to receive free meals by eliminating the need to fill out paperwork, including potentially invasive questions about income. Cities such as Atlanta, Detroit, and Chicago have been or will be participating in the free-meal program. Starting next school year, the program will...

The caption on the above photo reads: President Obama and former President George W. Bush greet family members of the deceased. Bush read a letter from President Abraham Lincoln (who) wrote to a widow who lost sons in the Civil War: Mary Altaffer/The Associated Press (hat tip Boq) The picture says it all. When President Bush spoke at the official ceremonies of the tenth anniversary of the 911 attacks, he was met with applause and warmth from the families. When Obama spoke, there was silence (just as with Mayor Bloomberg). The animus was palpable. UPDATE: Wait, there's more to turn...