President Barack Obama saluted the troops on Veterans Day by hosting a special breakfast at the White House. The president also marked the day at Arlington National Cemetery. He delivered remarks and helped with the annual wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns.

President Barack Obama says a $680 billion defense policy bill he signed into law proves that it’s possible to change the business-as-usual atmosphere in Washington.

White House economists say the Obama administration’s recovery efforts have saved or created more than a million jobs. President Barack Obama has promised that his $787 billion stimulus plan will create or save 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year. In its first report to Congress, the Council on Economic Advisers says the number is more than 1 million, and the stimulus has been the driving force.

It’s the speech that’s divided many parents. President Barack Obama is expected to speak to students across the country Tuesday morning. Locally, the speech will not be played for students in Richmond and Columbia County schools. Click to learn how to read the speech President Obama was to deleiver to students on Tuesday.

Columbia County students will not be watching President Obama’s “back to school” address next week. The President was planning on making a webcast available to schools, nationwide, next Tuesday. But so far, Columbia County’s Superintendent, Charles Nagle, has yet to receive any official word about it. So, in his words, it’ll be “business as usual.“

The White House is fine with bailed-out insurer AIG’s decision to pay its new CEO $7 million a year. Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs says that’s the price of competent leadership to make the company profitable again.

After weeks of urging lawmakers to embrace his health care agenda, President Barack Obama is taking his case back to the road Thursday as the public’s qualms about the plan seem to be growing. In his comments Wednesday and at scheduled events Thursday in Cleveland, the president is speaking directly to families about their pocketbook and medical concerns, urging them to ignore political opportunists and naysayers in order to achieve sweeping changes, which previous administrations could not attain.

Former Sen. Zell Miller says President Barack Obama’s decision to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay “nuts” and says it would risk the lives of civilians while giving terrorists new freedoms.

Sen. John McCain wants to remove the $1.75 billion recently inserted into the proposed 2010 defense budget for more fighter jets from Lockheed Martin.

Officials say the public Web sites of the White House and Secret Service were among those pestered by cyber attacks that began on July 4, but they weren’t seriously affected.

Vice President Joe Biden has announced a White House deal with the hospitals to help pay for President Barack Obama’s overhaul of health care.

The United States and Russia say they are resuming military cooperation suspended after Russia invaded its smaller neighbor Georgia last year. The expected announcement came Monday, as President Barack Obama and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev met for their first summit in Moscow.

The White House says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has broken her ankle after an airport stumble in New York City.

The White House has delivered a huge portfolio of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s writings, speeches and rulings to Capitol Hill.

In news around the world, reaction to North Korea’s nuclear bomb detonation has been swift, and severe. But, as with past rogue actions by the North Koreans, harsh words are hard to turn into actions. ABC News’ Terry McCarthy has more from the South Korean capital of Seoul.