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Speculation Builds on Michelle Obama Senate Run First Lady could be positioning herself for a run at Mark Kirk's seat in 2016 FLOTUS for Senate? It wasn't that long ago that such a slogan would seem absurd, but political wags are beginning to wonder whether Michelle Obama is mulling a run for Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk's seat in 2016. A Thursday column in Reuters suggests that Obama would be the only candidate with a large enough profile to unseat the Republican. The column also points to Obama's recent willingness to debate the merits of her school lunch program with Republicans,...

Michelle Obama Cites View of Growing Segregation By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG TOPEKA, Kan. — Sixty years after the Supreme Court outlawed “separate but equal” schools for blacks and whites, civil rights advocates say American schools are becoming increasingly segregated, while the first lady, Michelle Obama, lamented that “many young people are going to schools with kids who look just like them.” “Today, by some measures, our schools are as segregated as they were back when Dr. King gave his final speech,” Mrs. Obama told 1,200 graduating high school seniors Friday here in the city that gave rise to the landmark...

Schools across America will only be able to sell low-calorie healthy food, the Department of Agriculture announces.The US is banning junk food in schools in an effort to cut the level of obesity in young people. The ban by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will start on July 1 and will be nationwide. According to the proposed ban, schools across the country will only be allowed to sell healthy foods such as fruit, dairy products, whole-grain foods, lean protein products and vegetables. The staple food of a meal must not exceed 350 calories and snacks must be less...

Michelle Obama: Being First Lady is like living in a ‘really nice prison’ BY CHARLIE SPIERING | JULY 2, 2013 AT 8:50 AM First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday described living in the White House as like being in a “really nice prison.” Obama’s comment came during her discussion with former First Lady Laura Bush at the African First Ladies Summit in Tanzania during an interview moderated by journalist Cokie Roberts. Roberts noted that Martha Washington, the first First Lady, also described living in the role as akin to being a state prisoner. Obama said she loved her job and...

A University of Florida student said he was denied entry into a campus rally featuring Michelle Obama because he was wearing a John McCain t-shirt. Matt Pesek told the website Campus Reform that he had a ticket for the event but was turned away while he was standing in line. An Obama staffer allegedly told the student that he would not be allowed inside because the First Lady’s speech was for “supporters only.” … “I was waiting in line wearing a ‘Gators for McCain’ shirt when a guy (representing the Obama campaign) comes up to me to just intimidate me,”...

In January 2009, before the president signed his failed $787 billion stimulus bill into law, Barack Obama lectured America saying, "Everyone must sacrifice for the greater good... Everyone must have some skin in the game." A month after returning from her 17 day Hawaiian vacation, Michelle Obama is off to Aspen for a ski vacation.

First Lady Michelle Obama was booed in Florida today as she made the traditional "Gentlemen, start your engines!" call at the final NASCAR race of the season.

Weird. You’d never see anything like this published in the state-run media here in the US. Don’t they understand who they’re messing with? This Daily Mail piece today mocks Michelle Obama – and the poorly placed plant behind her.

First Lady Michelle Obama takes the podium to speak at Spelman's graduation. "Do big things," she told her audience. "Now it's your turn to repay the favor."

Here’s an opportunity to relive your high-school poetry classes. First Lady Michelle Obama has scheduled a poetry evening for Wednesday, and she’s invited several poets, including a successful Chicago poet and rapper, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., AKA “Common.” However, Lynn is quite controversial, in part because his poetry includes threats to shoot police and at least one passage calling for the “burn[ing]” of then-President George W. Bush.