One month after Roland Burris was sworn in to the US Senate to represent Illinois and fill Barack Obama's vacant seat, he's hearing calls for his resignation.

As two more of his cabinet nominees bit the dust over tax troubles, threatening to derail his agenda of change, President Barack Obama admitted in a series of TV interviews he screwed up.

The Republican Party chose the first black national chairman in its history on Friday, just shy of three months after the nation elected a Democrat as the first African-American president.

US President Barack Obama aced a choreographed first 100 hours in the White House, dramatically ending the Bush era by scything away at some high-profile domestic and national security policies.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez welcomed US President Barack Obama's decision to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.