President Obama continues making headlines this week with new articles on his recess appointment of Richard Cordray as CFPB director, as well as new strides in immigration reform. In addition, deficit reduction continues to be a major central issue for the White House while Congress continues to focus on other things, such as refusing to address climate change and making life miserable for children in Palestine as House Speaker John Boehner goes out fundraising for the GOP.

Developments are ahead in the wake of new reports of White House Chief Of Staff Bill Daley's resignation.

CNN's Monday Profile tells the latest new story focusing on the lives of a Georgia family in an economic environment that continues to increase in income inequality, the subject of BLOOMBERG contributor Lawrence Summers latest entry, on the subject of captialism in America.

New reports this week from BLOOMBERG and POLITICUSUSA detail new data regarding Friday's falling unemployment report for December, and what they could mean for President Obama's re-election chances.

Shedding a light of blunt, timely irony for GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry, Don Lemon speaks on the issuance of racially-encoded rhetoric in the dialogue during the GOP 2012 presidential race, in which also, the candidates are also focusing their anti-choice initiatives.

Merkel and Zarkozy continue to make progress in helping solve Europe's continuing debt crisis. REUTERS has the details on what needs to be done to further efforts to stablize Europe; A recent CNNMoney interview featuring IMF Chief Christie Lagarde brings things into perspective pertaining to the fate of Europe through its current crisis.

Iran tops world news headlines with the death sentencing of a former American marine, and its latest progress in uranium enrichment for nuclear capability.

And finally, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's days may be numbered.