In his Weekly Address, the President discusses the government’s response to the 2009 H1N1 flu virus, from school closings to activating online social networks. He urges Americans to be calm but cautious. Full transcript available here.

Facts about the world we live in….

President Obama said that he’s not only angered by the AIG bonuses, but by Wall Street’s culture of excess. But, as Chip Reid reports, Obama took responsibility, saying “the buck stops with me…

Tony award-winning actress Natasha Richardson, wife of actor Liam Neeson, has died at a New York hospital where she was transferred after a skiing mishap near Montreal.

The anger and the questions continue to grow over insurance giant’s AIG’s payment of bonuses despite massive losses and a government bailout. The AP’s Mark Smith reports.

Pope Benedict XVI has made an unusual public acknowledgment of Vatican mistakes and turmoil in his church over an outreach to ultraconservatives that led to his lifting the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop.

Ten times more oil than originally thought leaked from a ship to blacken miles of white sand beaches along Australia’s northeast coast, a government official said.