Merle Haggard is no stranger to the White House: He was a guest of both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, who -- when he was governor of California -- had granted the singer a full pardon for the felonies and misdemeanors that led to three years at San Quentin Prison.
John Travolta, Chris Rock and others tease the TV queen about her wealth, influence and charity work
Politics is serious business -- but not all the time. From the halls of Congress to the campaign trail to the international stage, there's always something that gets a laugh or a second glance. Here are some things you might have missed:
A split lip and saying "superfluous" causes President Obama to be tongue-tied at the Kennedy Center Honors reception.
Superfluous (su-PER-flu-us): Adjective. Unnecessary or needless; difficult to pronounce for a president with a split lip.
Wolf Blitzer, CNN's lead political anchor, has lived in the Washington area for 39 years.
When Charity Tillemann-Dick was 4, her parents took her to her first opera.
Eight months after enduring a double-lung transplant and open heart surgery, opera soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick returned to Cleveland Clinic to serenade her doctors.
The 30 Rock star collects this year's Mark Twain Prize for Humor in Washington, D.C.
Dear Annie: Please settle an argument. I'm a junior in college, studying engineering, and I have two choices for what to do this summer. One is, I could wait tables at the same upscale restaurant where I worked last year, and earn enough tips to pay my tuition for my entire senior year.
Contrary to the image presented by his films, Mel Brooks is not a meshuggeneh.
The President honors Mel Brooks, quips that he had to sneak in to see Blazing Saddles
The best and brightest in music, film and television were honored at the Kennedy Center Honors.
Legendary performers mingled with Washington heavyweights as the 32nd annual Kennedy Center Honors paid tribute to five people on Sunday night.
Comedian Bill Cosby received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Monday after refusing to accept the award twice in the past.
Six hip-hop artists from five countries speaking four languages are on stage, warming up for their show at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
CNN's Jill Dougherty looks at how the U.S. State Department is using hip hop's global appeal as a diplomatic tool.
The country couple will host a concert to help injured vets
President Obama helps Sen. Ted Kennedy celebrate a belated birthday at the Kennedy Center.
President Obama led a chorus of "Happy Birthday" for Sen. Ted Kennedy on Sunday night at the Kennedy Center, topping off a celebration of the senator's 77th birthday that featured a crowd of celebrities and political heavyweights.
The star helps out a D.C. grade school the afternoon before the Inauguration
For musicians, the holiday season traditionally brings a windfall. Musicians can often pick up a significant portion of their annual income with a month filled with back-to-back performances.
She will air a live episode from the Kennedy Center Opera House
Kennedy Center Chairman Stephen Schwarzman hailed the "extraordinary genius and tenacity" of the 2008 lifetime achievement award recipients, who were announced Tuesday
George Carlin, the influential comedian whose routines used profanity, scatology and absurdity to point out the silliness and hypocrisy of human life, has died. He was 71.
Friends, co-workers and family gather in Washington to remember journalist Tim Russert.
There were enough TV journalists and political strategists to fill several political roundtables attending the funeral for Meet the Press host Tim Russert
Tim Russert's son Luke greets mourners at his father's wake at St. Albans School in Washington.
A public wake, a private funeral and a televised memorial are set for the NBC newsman
This year's recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, which were handed out in a glittering ceremony last night in the nation's capitol, is quite the list of luminaries. Making up the talented quintet are: Beach Boy Brian Wilson, Academy award-winning director Martin Scorsese, singer supreme Diana Ross, actor-comedian Steve Martin and pianist-conductor Leon Fleisher, whose story of losing the use of his right hand was told in the 2007 Academy Award-nominated short subject documentary, "Two Hands."
Make faces at the oh-so-cuddly panda cub or inspect a moon rock. Cheer on a big-league baseball team or practice spycraft.
David Letterman isn't going anywhere.
"This quatrain was a Christmas present from Paul Simon. Gratias. L.B." That note is on a boisterous, booming little trope in Leonard Bernstein's "Mass."
Although Egypt stands at the crossroads of continents and civilizations, images of pyramids, The Sphinx and mummies dominate, eclipsing its other historic cultural and religious strands.
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