Appearing with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda after their bilateral meeting, Obama hailed the recent agreement to relocate 9,000 U.S. Marines off Okinawa to other bases in the Western Pacific, saying the move will help allay concerns of Japanese residents of the island.

Not if you’re late-night host Jimmy Fallon and President Obama is your guest.

In an interview with Obama at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Tuesday, Fallon joked with the president that he had been “having the best time hanging out with the Secret Service” over the past two days.

The leaders of the Clean Water Action Fund, Environment America, League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club announced in a conference call with reporters that they would turn their members out in force to support Obama this fall.

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President Obama signed into law the JOBS Act at the White House — with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) standing behind him. The two, who have been frequent nemeses over the past year, even shook hands after Obama finished putting his signature to paper in the Rose Garden.

Obama believes that women should be admitted as members at Augusta National, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday.

“Months ago Pres Obama was quoted as saying that he’d had a crush on me when he was younger. I asked about that & he proudly confirmed it!” Nichols tweeted on Feb. 29.

Obama invited eight Capitol Hill lawmakers, including four from the GOP, to join him as he signed the STOCK Act, which bans members of Congress from making financial trades based on information gleaned from their oversight work.

Van Jones, who spent six months as the “green jobs czar” in the Obama White House until he resigned amid a flurry of attacks from conservatives, is out with a new book. “Rebuild the Dream” looks back at how, in Jones’s view, the liberal movement grew passive under President Obama and paved the way for the rise of the tea party.