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YouTube and the White House's recent initiative to have US President Barack Obama answer questions from every day people in a live interview on YouTube. People have been able to ask their questions, over YouTube of course, for the past week and the most interesting and relevant ones have already been chosen.
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30 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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American conservationists have a new reason to celebrate an important victory. Obama has decided to reject the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline project, proposed by TransCanada.
His announcement has pleased all environmentally friendly groups, stating that the pipeline carrying oil from the Canadian tar sands to ... |
19 January 2012
02:41 GMT |
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A new report, entitled Behind Closed Doors at the White House, issued by the Center for Progressive Reform, reveals that the Obama administration didn't do a very good job while responding to the latest environmental challenges. The recent study indicates that approximately 80% of the overall climate regulatio... |
29 November 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Fox News has alerted the Secret Service about messages posted by hackers from one of its accounts and alleging that President Obama was assassinated.The incident occurred yesterday, on the 4th of July, and involved Fox's @foxnewspolitics account being hijacked by unidentified individuals."@BarackObama shot twice... |
5 July 2011
08:43 GMT |
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The FOX News Politics Twitter account has been hijacked and used to post fake reports about president Obama being assassinated.The attack began around two hours ago with a message from the hacker that ironically said: "Just regained full access to our Twitter and email. Happy 4th."Soon afterwards, the first Obama ann... |
4 July 2011
04:51 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that Google Image searches for president Obama's birth certificate have been poisoned with malicious links that lead users to scareware.This new black hat SEO campaign was prompted by the White House's decision to release President Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate in... |
28 April 2011
13:42 GMT |
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Interviewed by Univision's Jorge Ramos, U.S. President, Barack Obama confirmed he owned not only an iPad, but also a personal (full-fledged) computer, following up with a joke that he didn’t have to borrow such products from bystanders. Though you’ll never find President Obama dressed smart-casual a... |
29 March 2011
09:19 GMT |
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During a speech this Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama touted Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, as an example of the "American dream," noting that Jobs’ product success should earn him the right to be “rich”.
In response to a reporter's question, Obama made the following comments (via CNet... |
23 December 2010
06:06 GMT |
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United States President, Barack Obama was asked to sign another iPad, this time at a NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal. The President is at his second such encounter with the Apple tablet, following a rally in Seattle for Senator Patty Murray, where Obama was kind enough to offer a digital autograph to a person handing... |
26 November 2010
08:22 GMT |
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Lately, United States President, Barack Obama just cant stay away from Apple. Whether it’s meeting up with the company’s CEO, or signing digital autographs on the iPad, Obama seems to have an affinity for everything that involves the Cupertino, Calif.-based electronics maker.A man named Sylvester Cann IV ... |
25 October 2010
03:26 GMT |
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At the White House Correspondents Association, CNN’s Ed Henry reportedly convinced Michelle Obama to send her first Tweet from his iPhone. However, it took a while for the first lady to get her message out, particularly because she didn’t know how to type using the phone’s virtual keyboard. “H... |
4 May 2010
10:41 GMT |
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A staffer in the Obama administration is signaling that devices like Apple’s iPad will spell trouble for the future demands on networks. Phil Bellaria offers examples such as the network outages occurring when AOL first introduced unlimited Internet access in 1996. “Apple’s iPad announcement has set... |
4 February 2010
06:08 GMT |
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US President Barack Obama will suggest in his budget proposal that NASA renounces its mission of returning to the Moon by 2020. Rather, the space agency will need to focus on fostering innovation in the private sector, and also on reclaiming its former status, as a leader of new science and technology when it comes t... |
28 January 2010
09:21 GMT |
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Coming to answer the question some of us may have asked ourselves when fantasizing about winning the lotto and being able to move in a fabulous residence complex where we’d get to pick our neighbors, a new poll reveals the Obamas would be Americans’ first choice in this respect. At the opposite poll are r... |
30 December 2009
14:31 GMT |
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US President Barack Obama has announced for a long time that he will be attending this year's UN Climate Summit, held in Copenhagen, but he recently said that he would no longer attend the works. Rather, he will meet up with other leaders at the end of the conference, in the very last day. The purpose of the new... |
5 December 2009
06:05 GMT |
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In a fierce reply to the preliminary conclusions released by the US Human Space Flight Plans Committee, NASA's Chief of Lunar and Martian Explorations, Jeff Hanley, said that the results the panel came to were biased, and that the experts on the board were making false claims about Project Constellation and its ... |
9 October 2009
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Soon, the US Human Space Flight Plans Committee, informally known as the Augustine Commission, will present its conclusions about the future development avenues NASA could be set on to the Obama Administration. Despite the fact that the panel is charged with rethinking the agency's policies, it seems to be at an... |
9 October 2009
02:50 GMT |
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For the first time ever, it may be that establishing an international ban on the testing of nuclear weapons is within reach, experts say. Plans for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) state that all explosions involving nuclear weapons, be they for civilian or military purposes, are to be banned. The negotiation... |
22 September 2009
03:45 GMT |
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In the light of the whole Obama – Joker fiasco, Flickr has come out as the bad guy and is now trying to at least limit the damages by changing its policy when handling copyright takedown claims. A photoshopped image of the US President Barack Obama, which depicted him as the Dark Knight's version of the po... |
3 September 2009
12:10 GMT |
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Since US President Barack Obama asked the Review for US Human Space Flight Plans panel to investigate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), its members have taken their jobs seriously. They looked into Project Constellation, analyzed progress, costs, budget overruns, and benefits, and noted their ... |
6 August 2009
02:05 GMT |
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Former astronaut and retired United States Marine Corps Major General Charles Boden Jr. was confirmed by the Senate of the US as the new NASA Administrator in mid-July. The new leader was sworn into office on July 17th, and has recently made an hour-long statement from the agency's headquarters, in Washington DC... |
22 July 2009
03:39 GMT |
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With more than $1.7 trillion in deficits in 2009, the United States are now hardly in a position to retain their hard-earned place as leader in space flight. Some 40 years ago, when the Apollo 11 mission took off for the Moon, there was no doubt in anyone's mind that NASA, with its income then estimated at four ... |
18 June 2009
14:01 GMT |
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As we reported at the end of last month, the Food and Drug Administration is about to get increased powers over the tobacco industry soon, if the bill setting forth a new legislative frame on the matter is adopted by the Senate. The House of Representatives has already passed the proposals along party lines in April,... |
11 June 2009
05:49 GMT |
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One of the overlooked moments at this year's E3 conference has been the keynote given by Michael Gallagher, the president of the Entertainment Software Association, an organization that is supposed to look out for the interests of the videogaming industry. Amongst the topics that he touched on were piracy, the w... |
5 June 2009
03:54 GMT |
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Sixty-seven-year-old George Tiller, a famous pro-choice activist and abortion doctor, was killed on Sunday, in a Reformation Lutheran Church in his Wichita, Kansas hometown. The police apprehended the shooter, a 51-year-old man, and are currently investigation whether he has any connections to pro-life groups that op... |
1 June 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Bioengineers and geneticists in the United States are currently worried that, under the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines currently under development, none of the existing lines of stem cells could benefit from federal funding. The strict informed-consent provisions in the new documents would make it... |
27 May 2009
20:01 GMT |
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The White House, in a highly anticipated move, announced yesterday that former NASA astronaut Charles Frank Bolden Jr. was nominated by US President Barack Obama as the next administrator of the American space agency. Speculations about this decision have persisted for many months, but, until yesterday, nothing was c... |
24 May 2009
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As announced yesterday, the Obama administration has made public its new federal requirements for the automotive industry, as well as the new goals of the fight against pollution and global warming. Surrounded by representatives of the automotive industry, environmentalists, and top members of the Congress, the presi... |
20 May 2009
20:51 GMT |
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According to sources close to the US President, Barack Obama will announce today a new set of limits concerning vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, as well as new carbon limits for America, in a move that is without precedent in the history of the country. The new limitations will be applied nationwide, at a federal le... |
19 May 2009
08:40 GMT |
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Today, US President Barack Obama is intent on making the final and decisive push towards a sweeping and far-reaching health care system overhaul, aiming to secure support for new sets of legislations, which have the potential of saving trillions of dollars over the next decade. The plan is also meant to improve the e... |
11 May 2009
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In an unexpected turn of events, the Obama administration seems intent to launch a full review of NASA plans for the future, this week. The report will assess whether the Constellation Project, which involves the ARES array of delivery systems, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, and the Altair Lunar Lander, is the b... |
7 May 2009
06:57 GMT |
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The seven astronauts who returned home on Saturday aboard the Discovery space shuttle are some of the happiest men and women on the planet right now. After a mission laden with dangers and risks, they managed to last for 13 days in space, while at the same time delivering a new set of solar wings to the International... |
31 March 2009
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According to a new nation-wide study conducted in the US, very few of the country's hospitals have electronic record systems installed. Most health care institutions still keep all their sensitive medical data on paper files, stored in archives in the basement of the buildings. A measly 2 percent of them have el... |
26 March 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Wednesday could very well go down in history as one of the days when nature conservation efforts won an important victory in the United States. The Congress has passed a set of some 160 bills, setting the basis for more accurate and protective environmental regulations, which will affect millions of acres of land thr... |
26 March 2009
16:01 GMT |
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President Barack Obama has made a very long distance-call on Tuesday, when he made contact with the joint 10-member crew of astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station and the Discovery space shuttle. The President, who has called the crew from his Oval Office, has said, first of all, that everyone at... |
25 March 2009
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took a very important step in fighting global warming recently, when it forwarded a proposed finding to the White House, which stated that climate change and the greenhouse effect were threats to America's financial and health security. If the proposal is approved by ... |
24 March 2009
06:48 GMT |
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President Obama's choice for a green jobs, enterprise and innovation advisor has been widely applauded, as Van Jones, the founder of Oakland, California-based national Green for All organization, is a famous activist for civil rights and an acclaimed author. He has published The New York Times best-seller book, ... |
11 March 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced on Thursday that the proposed nuclear waste repository to be built at the underground Yucca mountain complex would not be completed, and that the project for the location would be dropped. He added that the new White House Administration was seeking at the moment a drastically-ne... |
6 March 2009
03:44 GMT |
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According to a Thomson Reuters financial analysis of US hospitals, most of these institutions currently register no profits from their activities. Their median profit margins are at zero, and chances are that they will remain very low for the next period. In addition, of the 400 hospitals that have been surveyed, mor... |
3 March 2009
10:28 GMT |
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Recently, snopes received an e-mail from a person complaining about the fact that a Barnes and Nobles book retail shop featured a highly unusual and potentially racist book display. The layout comprised numerous books written by or about president Obama, and all of these volumes were carefully arranged so as to surro... |
28 February 2009
04:31 GMT |
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On Friday, president Obama and his team made the first step towards setting things in the American health care system right, when they announced that they were looking to review and replace the decisions that Bush made before he left the White House. These resolutions basically gave health care employees the poss... |
28 February 2009
03:46 GMT |
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On Thursday, Obama released the proposed budget for 2010, and the good news for space fans is that it features sufficient funds for NASA to push ahead with its scheduled return to the Moon by 2020. The new president apparently continues Bush's line of policy as far as space exploration goes, and he even adds som... |
27 February 2009
13:01 GMT |
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When Obama took office about a month ago, he was faced with the prospect of having to fix the entire US space program, a duty that was first attempted by president Bush, but which had NASA sit on the bench for five years, between 2010 and 2015. Now, the new president has to solve this problem, and a group of Army off... |
24 February 2009
02:38 GMT |
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The Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan institution, has recently announced that the number of uninsured Americans in the US is expected to grow to 54 million in roughly 10 years, from the current number of 45 million. The report says that the current economic crisis will only make things worse, seeing how mo... |
23 February 2009
09:32 GMT |
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Researchers are amazed by the fact that the level of racist prejudice sharply decreased in the United States in the Fall of 2008, especially after Barack Obama was designated as the Democratic Party's nominee for President. Psychology professor E. Ashby Plant, from Florida State University, together with profess... |
13 February 2009
05:18 GMT |
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Even before he ran for President, Barack Obama expressed his concern about the morality and use of populating the orbit with space weapons, fearing that if the US engaged in such activities, than every other country with launch capabilities would follow suit. His view thoroughly opposed that of then-President Bush, w... |
5 February 2009
11:04 GMT |
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Former President Bush apparently left office before he could do “right” by all his supporters, as proven by the fact that only yesterday Republican senators urged President Barack Obama to resume the proceedings on an offshore drilling plan, meant to last for the next few years. The politicians also asked... |
5 February 2009
04:04 GMT |
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The famed aeronautics company Boeing has announced recently that it has developed a variety of laser cannon that can successfully bring down unmanned aerial reconnaissance drones. The laser, mounted on the back of a Humvee, is capable of destroying the very probes that president Obama claims are the future of the US ... |
27 January 2009
09:00 GMT |
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While most political and military experts agree that the inclusion of Iran in the club of nuclear powers is premature and poses great international risks, everyone else seems to forget that the “democratic” countries have been those responsible for the proliferation of atomic bombs and the idea to use the... |
26 January 2009
07:08 GMT |
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In an anticipated and highly-expected move, president Barack Obama has gone after some of the latest climate proposals that former president George W. Bush tried to push through Congress in the time frame between Election Day and Inauguration Day. These decisions are usually very hard to reverse and take years to do ... |
26 January 2009
03:35 GMT |
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