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According to Newsweek magazine, 11% of the American public continues to believe that President Barack Obama is a Muslim. Many more than that may express at least some level of doubt on that particular question. First of all, let me...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Obama and wife Michelle held their first state dinner with dignity and style Tuesday night. They greeted their guest of honor, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife, Gursharan Kaur, with warm smiles and open...

"Given Secretary Clinton's commitment to women's rights and her pledge to fight violence against women, we are asking her to speak out about the dangerous and appalling situation faced by Honduran women." Jody Williams, Nobel Laureate More than 175 human...

Barack Obama will head to Copenhagen on Dec. 9—the day before his Nobel Prize ceremony in Oslo—to advocate for a comprehensive global climate accord. The White House had vacillated on whether Obama should go, since no one expects a legally...

Wikileaks will publish over half a million text pager messages sent on 9/11 over a 24-hour period beginning today. "Please don't leave the building," reads one of the texts. "One of the towers just collapsed! Please, please be careful!" Another...

U.S. President Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Obama said yesterday that He promises to "finish the job" in Afghanistan and to announce "soon" a decision on sending additional troops to that country to fight al-Qaida and Taliban insurgents....

Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, is an Obama adviser and his next meeting with the boss is going to be as fun as that time I had to explain this site to my mom. "For most of the past...

WASHINGTON, D.C . - After ten months in office, President Obama granted his first pardon. The lucky recipient was Courage, a 45 pound turkey who was spared being eaten on Thanksgiving day this year, thanks to the interventions of daughters...

“The Manhattan Declaration is a wake-up call—a call to conscience—for the church. It is also a crystal-clear message to civil authorities that we will not, under any circumstances, stand idly by as our religious freedom comes under assault ." Charles...

Hackers have doctored a photo of Michelle Obama to look like an ape and rigged Google search results so it comes up first under an image search of her name. The move prompted Google to take out an ad on...