"The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside," Barack Obama said in an interview Thursday on the Spanish-language Univision network. "You can only change it from the outside."

SALT LAKE CITY -- A specter is haunting the Congressional Black Caucus, the specter of integration.

Make a habit of feeding alligators and you'd better never stop. If you do, they're going to get a little angry and try to eat you. 

In Libya, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three colleagues were murdered Tuesday. Earlier that day, protesters in Egypt stormed the U.S. embassy and tore down the American flag.

Sept. 11, 2012, seemed like it was going to be another solemn day to remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001.