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Barack Obama has held more re-election fundraisers than previous five Presidents combined
Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in...
Barack Obama accused by GOP of using the killing of Osama bin Laden for his re-election campaign
President Barack Obama is accused by GOP of using the killing of Osama bin Laden as a political weapon for his re-election, after it...
White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2012: Barack Obama meets Lindsay Lohan and Kim Kardashian
President Barack Obama shared a meal with politicians, journalists and stars like Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan at the 98th annual White House Correspondents'...
US Secret Service prompts new rules after Colombia scandal
The US Secret Service has decided to tighten its staff guidelines in an attempt to stop any repeat of the Colombia sex scandal. Agents travelling...
Athena Hohenberg won $3M in class-action suit over Nutella’s misleading health claims
Athena Hohenberg's quest make Nutella pay for advertising their hazelnut spread as a “nutritious” part of a “healthy breakfast” has yielded millions in rewards. Ferrero...
Enterprise prototype took the skies for the first time in a sky show over Manhattan
Enterprise, NASA's original prototype for the space shuttle program, took to the skies today for the first time in nearly 27 years for a...
Bob Dylan will receive US Medal Of Freedom
Bob Dylan will receive the Medal Of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, it has been announced. Bob Dylan is being recognized alongside former Secretary of...
Black bear falling 15 feet from tree after being tranquilized at University of Colorado-Boulder
A 200-pound black bear, who wandered up into a tree at the University of Colorado - Boulder, is again safe after wildlife department officials...
How Michelle Obama’s shopping trip to Spain cost taxpayers nearly $500,000
First Lady Michelle Obama's whirlwind tour of Spain in 2010 better have been a once in a lifetime trip, because her getaway cost taxpayers...
US Secret Service in new sex scandal in El Salvador
The US Secret Service is now investigating another claims that some of its agents paid for strippers and prostitutes in El Salvador. An advance presidential...
Newt Gingrich will quit presidential campaign next week
US media report that Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is expected to suspend his campaign next week. Newt Gingrich said on Wednesday that he expected...
Mitt Romney wows to take the White House from Barack Obama
Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidential elections in US, has vowed to take the White House from President Barack Obama and...
California will vote on abolishing death penalty
Californian voters are to be asked whether they want to abolish the state's death penalty law. The measure will appear on November's ballot after more...
Charles Chuck Colson, the “evil genius” of Richard Nixon’s administration, dies at 80
Charles Colson, President Richard Nixon’s aide who was involved in the Watergate scandal and later became an evangelical preacher, has died aged 80. Charles Colson...
LED light bulb that lasts 20 years goes on sale in US on Earth Day
Prize-winning Philips LED light bulb that lasts for 20 years is going on sale in the US on Sunday - also known as Earth...
Meet Meow, the 40-pound super-sized cat
Meow, a 2-year-old orange and white super-sized cat tips the scale at nearly 40 pounds, and the Santa Fe Animal Shelter is on a...
Mary Pinchot Meyer, JFK’s mistress, was killed by CIA as she knew too much about his assassination
The suspicious death of Mary Pinchot Meyer, one of President John F. Kennedy's mistresses, just months after his death, has sparked numerous conspiracy theories. A...
Titanic Memorial Cruise: Balmoral arrives in New York after completing its journey to mark disaster centenary
Titanic Memorial Cruise is finished as Balmoral ship has arrived in New York, after completing its journey to mark the centenary of the Titanic...
David Merkur used spreadsheet to keep track his online dates and even showed it to one of them
David Merkur, an investment banker from New York and member of Match.com, has used a spreadsheet to make sure he was able to distinguish...
Barack Obama Sr. categorized as “anti-American and anti-white” when he moved to US in 1959
As President Barack Obama has been dogged by claims he is not patriotic enough it now emerges that similar fears were expressed about his...
Record number of Americans renounced their US citizenship in 2011 to avoid paying taxes
In 2011, almost 1,800 people renounced their U.S. citizenship or handed in their Green Cards and many of them said it was because of...
Warren Buffett reveals he has been diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer
Warren Buffett has revealed in a letter to shareholders that he has been diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer. The billionaire investor said the cancer,...
Space Shuttle Discovery flyover Washington DC on the back of jumbo jet before retirement at Smithsonian
Discovery, NASA's oldest and most travelled space shuttle, has made a dramatic flypast over the centre of Washington D.C. on the way to its...
Maggie, the loyal Labrador retriever who guarded her fatally struck friend in LA traffic
Maggie, a loyal Labrador retriever who was videotaped as she guarded the body of a yellow Lab hit and killed by a car in...
Dole recalls 7 Letucces bagged salad in 15 states because of fear of salmonella
Dole Food Co.'s fresh vegetables division has decided to recall 756 cases of bagged salad out of fears that they could be contaminated with...
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