(Paul Tople/Akron Beacon Journal) Ann Harris, in a pink floral shirt, stands with multiple generations of her  …

Friday morning, President Barack Obama ate a breakfast of eggs, bacon and wheat toast at Josephine "Ann" Harris' restaurant in Akron, Ohio. She met the president, and embraced him. A few hours later, she was dead. The Akron Beacon Journal said Harris, 70, apparently succumbed to a heart attack.

Obama, winging his way back to Washington aboard Air Force One, telephoned her daughter, Wilma Parsons, according to White House press secretary Jay Carney.

"The president expressed his sorrow and his condolences at the very sad event. He was honored to meet her this morning and passed on his feelings that the whole family is in his thoughts and prayers today," Carney told reporters.

Thaddeus McCotter (Lon Horwedel/AP)

Michigan Republican Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, who launched a short-lived White House bid in 2011, announced Friday that he was resigning from Congress, citing personal family issues.

"After nearly 26 years in elected office, this past nightmarish month and a half have, for the first time, severed the necessary harmony between the needs of my constituency and of my family," McCotter said in a statement. "As this harmony is required to serve, its absence requires I leave."

In March, McCotter failed to acquire the necessary amount of signatures to appear on the party's primary ballot to represent his district near Detroit. He initially launched a write-in campaign, but announced last month he would end his efforts, choosing instead to retire from Congress when his term ended in January 2013.

He was first elected in 2002.

Here's the full statement of his resignation, which McCotter posted on his Facebook page Friday afternoon:

Romney diving in New Hampshire (Charles Dharapak/AP)

Just hours after Mitt Romney appeared before reporters to respond to June's dismal jobs report, the Republican nominee was spotted back in the waters of Lake Winnipesaukee outside his home in Wolfeburo, New Hampshire.

Associated Press photographer Charles Dharapak captured Romney diving and swimming with his shirt on--perhaps to avoid a shirtless photo-op like the one President Barack Obama had taken unexpectedly by a paparazzo as he vacationed in Hawaii in 2008.