President Barack Obama's aunt says he was born in Hawaii and she can't understand claims that he's not a natural-born American citizen. ...more

August 14, 2009

A woman called authorities to her home after her half-sister arrived minutes earlier, punched her, put her in a headlock and head-butted her, deputies said. ...more

March 4, 2009

Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, the American heiress who was first married to an Austrian playboy prince and then to a Danish-born man-about-society who was twice tried on charges of attempting to murder her, died Saturday at a nursing home in Manhattan. She was 76. ...more

December 7, 2008

CHICAGO (AP) -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn't know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed. ...more

November 1, 2008

Dear Abby: My father left my mother for a woman he met at work. I was only 7. My brother was 9 at the time; he committed suicide at the age of 20. ...more

October 12, 2008

The daughter of a man accused of killing his wife nine years ago said she is worried about the future of her 3-year-old half sister. ...more

September 22, 2008

Barack Obama is a dedicated feminist who "lives surrounded by women," his half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, told a mostly female crowd at a Women For Obama event in downtown Tampa on Thursday. ...more

July 18, 2008

"The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher," by Kate Summerscale (Walker & Co., $25) ...more

July 6, 2008

"The Lady Elizabeth," by Alison Weir (Ballantine Books, $25) ...more

June 1, 2008

CHICAGO (AP) - It was a Wednesday night ritual for Barack Obama: After a day of debating taxes, the death penalty or some other divisive issue, he'd head to a meeting of "The Committee." Lawmakers and lobbyists, Democrats and Republicans alike, would put their politics on hold and gather for ... their weekly poker game. ...more

December 29, 2007