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President Obama has held a press conference expressing his support for the FBI amid rumors of repeated fails in the Boston bomber investigation.
As I told you, the Bureau had spoken to Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his family before, following a warning from the Russian government.
They monitored his activities, friends a... |
1 May 2013
10:49 GMT |
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Tech giant Microsoft is one of the companies that donated the biggest amount of money to President Barack Obama’s re-election committee, as the software maker contributed $2.1 million (€1.6 billion) to support the January inauguration.
According to a report by Bloomberg citing Federal Election Commission ... |
24 April 2013
22:21 GMT |
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An online petition set up by actor and greenhead Ted Danson asks that President Obama do not approve of seismic airgun testing for oil and gas being carried out in the Atlantic Ocean.
More so given the fact that said testing activities are meant to pave the way for offshore exploration and drilling activities to be ... |
18 April 2013
04:22 GMT |
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“Shame” is the word of the day, a word used both by president Obama and a survivor of the Tucson 2011 shooting in which Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) has been severely wounded.
The reactions come as the Senate throws out an amendment on gun control that would have imposed more thorough background checks b... |
18 April 2013
04:10 GMT |
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Green-oriented group PETA has now decided to take a stand against President Obama's BRAIN initiative.
Their reasons for doing so are pretty straightforward: this researcher project cannot possibly yield any noteworthy benefits for humans, simply because most of the experiments are to be carried out on animals.... |
17 April 2013
16:31 GMT |
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SNL has delivered a poignant satire on officials' take on gun control, touching on how indecisiveness plays a part in the political process of imposing stricter regulations on gun ownership and use. Said indecisiveness comes about when all political players are more concerned about keeping their jobs than makin... |
15 April 2013
11:39 GMT |
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Microsoft brags about its Lync communication and collaboration platform with every single occasion, so the company is now telling everyone that this particular service has actually played a decisive role in President Obama’s victory in the 2012 elections.
According to a press release rolled out by the Redmond-... |
3 April 2013
09:52 GMT |
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Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has spoken against the government having complete control over health care, vocally opposing Obamacare which she believes leaves an alarmingly large majority of the U.S. population at risk. She aims to have the reform repealed before “it literally kills women, kills children, ki... |
22 March 2013
06:51 GMT |
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In an interview from yesterday, U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the issue of the nationality of the pope, as some believe having an American pope could create a conflict of interest. The interview by ABC, a full transcript of which can be read here, begins with the interviewer asking the president if he be... |
14 March 2013
05:13 GMT |
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Reports have surfaced that Obama, the presidential dog, has his own motorcade and is keeping it throughout budget cuts.
Said reports are based on the photo published above this article, posted by Human Events among other publications.
However, the photo was taken during the president's trip to Alexandria, Vir... |
11 March 2013
05:31 GMT |
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The White House's decision to cancel tours due to the sequestration has caused an uproar among Republican lawmakers, who believe the measure is unnecessary.
According to Talk Radio News, White House reps have announced that visits will stop on March 9, 2013, as budget cuts have been made and keeping on staff wo... |
6 March 2013
05:20 GMT |
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President Obama has unveiled a statue of Rosa Parks in the Capital building. Parks' statue lies in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall, as a testament to her contribution to supporting African Americans' Civil Rights. According to the Belleville News Democrat, the woman that many dub a heroine for h... |
28 February 2013
10:26 GMT |
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Radio host Rush Limbaugh's rant has gone viral since it was aired on Thursday, with the commentator discussing Obama's alleged strategy to use fear to influence the public into, basically, getting what he wants. “Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in my life I am ashamed of my country,” ... |
22 February 2013
05:39 GMT |
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An 18-year-old girl from Chicago, Illinois has been fatally shot on the same day her sister sat behind President Barack Obama while he gave his gun control speech. On Friday, Janay McFarlane was shot in a suburban part of North Chicago, in a drive-by. According to CBS Chicago, the friend she was walking to was the g... |
18 February 2013
02:34 GMT |
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A Justice Department memo made public on Monday allows agents operating overseas to attack and kill American citizens associated with terrorist organizations. Washington Post notes that the provisions refer only to Americans that constitute an “imminent threat” to agents' lives or that have the pote... |
5 February 2013
08:53 GMT |
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A 15-year-old student that performed during president Obama's inauguration ceremony was fatally shot in a Chicago park, on Tuesday, January 29. Hadiya Pendleton took part in the presidential festivities as a member of the King College Prep band in Washington. “It's a terrible tragedy any time a youn... |
31 January 2013
05:37 GMT |
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A federal appeals court decision proves unfavorable to the Obama administration, as some of the President's appointments prove unconstitutional. The ruling applies to a case from last year in which Obama made three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, Guardian writes. He had not consulted ... |
26 January 2013
03:18 GMT |
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President Obama's inaugural speech, which mentioned gay rights for the first time in history, has touched the hearts of members of the LGBT community. An 11-year-old girl by the name of Sadie thought of writing a speech of her own, because she feels she has been forgotten by politicians in their target groups. ... |
24 January 2013
07:45 GMT |
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The infamous NASA mohawk guy is back for the Obama inauguration, and he plans to premiere a new look that, he says, will upstage the president himself.
Bobak Ferdowsi is a 33-year-old flight director that captured the world's eye with his appearances in the televised transmission for the Curiosity rover's ... |
19 January 2013
04:11 GMT |
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A bottle of White House homebrewed beer has been sold at auction for a staggering $1,200 (€918). This is not just an ordinary bottle – there is a story behind it. The White House Honey Ale was given to Brad Magerkurth, a resident of Minnesota, by president Obama during the 2012 campaign. The reelected p... |
10 January 2013
05:37 GMT |
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Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy is not backing down from his theory that the Newtown tragedy is a hoax by the Obama government. He is tweaking his statement on the Sandy hook shooting though, in an interview with WPTV. He originally hinted that the tragedy never occurred. Tracy mentioned in his bl... |
10 January 2013
04:42 GMT |
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Danny Hafley of Kentucky is the proud owner of this life-size statue of American president Obama, who appears to be eating a watermelon.
Some are dubbing his display racist, as it embodies a known stereotype about black people. A neighbor complained about the statue being moved closer to the street, after the reelec... |
28 December 2012
05:06 GMT |
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As we previously reported, U.S. president Barack Obama issued a statement this weekend, mourning the victims of Newtown, Connecticut.
“And we’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics,” he states.
Many believed his ... |
17 December 2012
09:01 GMT |
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The news has just broken that, all things considered, it is quite likely that US President Barack Obama will nominate Senator John Kerry to be the country's next Secretary of State.
Up until now, most people have believed that UN ambassador Susan Rice would be the one to replace Hillary Clinton, yet it seems t... |
17 December 2012
03:22 GMT |
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Firefighter Clint Pierce of Pompano Beach, Florida will be looking for another job after higher-ups terminated his services for placing Obama toilet paper around the station.
On three separate occasions, he displayed anti-Obama items around the station, which is city property. He had been asked to stop following th... |
4 December 2012
07:42 GMT |
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90,000 visitors are expected at the White House for the 2012 holidays, but they won't see anything cuter there than Bo Obama, the first dog. This video of Bo, with images of Christmas decorations in the house inserted at just the right time, was uploaded on YouTube yesterday. At over 120,000 views, it's al... |
30 November 2012
09:30 GMT |
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“Truth” is the name of this unusual painting of President Barack Obama as Jesus Christ. The piece is on display at the Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery in Boston. Art is most appreciated when it provides the shock factor, and Obama as Jesus sure does do that. Michael D'Antuono was supposed ... |
28 November 2012
07:52 GMT |
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Only yesterday, US President Barack Obama granted his presidential pardon to both Cobbler and Gobbler, two four-month-old turkeys born and raised on a farm in Virginia.
PETA might not approve of his decision, yet odds are that the birds were more than overjoyed by the news that neither of them would be slaughtered ... |
22 November 2012
07:49 GMT |
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New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and US President Barack Obama met today at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia. Apparently, one of their topics of discussion was the controversial fonder of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom.
According to Stuff.co.nz, the officials didn’t reveal what, if any, conclusion was reached regar... |
20 November 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Given the fact that his promising to deal with climate change was probably the main drive behind his being re-elected as President of the US, it need not come as a surprise that Barack Obama now vows that his second term will be all about making head and tail of this threat.
Still, the President wished to emphasize... |
15 November 2012
07:32 GMT |
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In mid-October, US President Barack Obama signed a secret directive that would allow federal agencies to address cyber threats against the country’s critical infrastructures in a more aggressive manner. According to The Washington Post, Presidential Policy Directive 20 establishes a set of standards to guide o... |
15 November 2012
05:17 GMT |
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The elections took their toll on Eric Hartsburg, as this young wrestler made the life-affirming decision to auction off tattoo space on his body, on eBay. The 30-year-old Republican from Indiana ended up branding “R” for Romney on his right temple, a symbol that he claimed he could live with, him being a... |
13 November 2012
10:55 GMT |
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28-year-old Holly Solomon of Mesa, Arizona, is probably Romney's biggest supporter, even putting her husband in hospital for his electoral apathy.
The young woman that "just hated Obama" attacked husband Daniel for failing to vote, dubbing him personally responsible for the American leader's reelection thi... |
13 November 2012
07:59 GMT |
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22-year-old store attendant Denise Helms, from California, was fired over a racist Facebook post. Employer Cold Stone Creamery, in Turlock, California, removed Helms from her position after being flooded by angry tweets about her disturbing political and social views, Sacramento Fox 40 reports. Helms referred to the... |
10 November 2012
07:31 GMT |
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This year's elections in the States are bringing many to tears, including the President himself, but one store owner from Virginia needs an entire day to get over his sorrow over Obama's re-election. “Closed to mourn the loss of the America that our forefathers endowed to us,” R.T. Lyons posted... |
9 November 2012
11:36 GMT |
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Twitter is getting serious these days. But it's not because Obama decided to announce his victory on Twitter first, the proof that Twitter has really made it big is that the Pope will soon start tweeting.
The Pope's personal account is all set up and ready to go and will start seeing some action by the ye... |
9 November 2012
04:44 GMT |
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18-year-old Kristen Neel's post-election tweet is one for posterity, as this teen demonstrates that politics and a complete lack of information about world geography don't mix.
“I'm moving to Australia, because their president is a Christian and actually supports what he says,” Kristen wri... |
9 November 2012
04:02 GMT |
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20-year-old new mother Millicent Owuor has finally found a way to get Obama and Romney to get along, and share public attention. Of course, Barack and Mitt are Millicent's newborn twins, born right on Election Day. The Kenyan Standard reports how the twins from Siaya in southwest Kenya came to be named as the ... |
8 November 2012
11:00 GMT |
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The Presidential Elections are here. Avast CEO Vincent Steckler has revealed that a survey conducted over the weekend on 100,000 users showed that their favorite was Mitt Romney, although most of them believed that Obama would win.
The results in the survey are pretty tight, as 48.9% of the users sided with the Repu... |
6 November 2012
12:31 GMT |
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21-year-old Quazi Nafis, from Bangladesh, planted a 1,000lb car bomb, yesterday, near the New York Federal Reserve. He was arrested and is now in police custody.
The suspect was studying cyber security in NYC, and caught the authorities' attention when he posted on his Google+ account that he was going to &ldqu... |
18 October 2012
13:31 GMT |
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America’s presidential debate on Tuesday night touched on a few sensitive subjects, including the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs in the Far East, and how the next president can turn the situation around, bringing some of those jobs back to The States.
Moderator Candy Crowley started the fire, telling the tw... |
17 October 2012
07:31 GMT |
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President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney are at each other's throats, Katy Perry style, in this viral video.
This video was uploaded by user Baracksdubs, and it has not only our vote, but that of 35,000 other people as well. The clip received almost 5000 likes since yesterday, most likely all from Katy ... |
16 October 2012
13:31 GMT |
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I don’t really like Mitt Romney or his political positions, but I like a challenge when it comes to video games and I even sometimes appreciate playing against my own predispositions so I have tried to win the Office of President of the United States for the Republicans.
I ran a Long game in The Political Mach... |
22 September 2012
18:51 GMT |
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The United States presidential election in 2012 pits Democrat Barrack Obama, the incumbent, and his vice-president, Joe Biden, against Republican hopefuls Mitt Romney and his vice candidate pick, Paul Ryan.
I have played with both pairs in The Political Machine 2012, the election and campaign simulation from Stardoc... |
21 September 2012
18:41 GMT |
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According to PasteHTML, US President Barack Obama is one of the people whose iOS UDID (unique device identifier) got leaked as the result of an attack by AntiSec earlier this week.
The hackers allegedly broke into an FBI laptop and downloaded roughly 12 million iOS IDs, as well as information that can link the data ... |
5 September 2012
08:47 GMT |
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A few days back, we shared information with respect to how US Republican Mitt Romney decided to accuse President Barack Obama of having made some very poor decisions concerning the future of the country's energy industry.
Thus, the American businessman and politician makes a case of how the green-oriented ener... |
27 August 2012
08:34 GMT |
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Only yesterday, Mitt Romney (i.e. American businessman and politician) launched a most vicious attack against environmental protection and green-oriented technologies, arguing that President Obama's current energy policies will take down the country's economy sooner than expected.
As far as he is concerne... |
24 August 2012
12:11 GMT |
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The Political Machine is one of the elements of the American electoral cycle and this year’s installment of the turn-based political strategy from Stardock is equal parts educations and fun, a bite-sized game experience that can be played over and over to discover how a particular candidate could end up Preside... |
13 August 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Bogus YouTube takedowns haven't been news for years. Copyright holders abuse the ContentID system they have at their disposal and the DMCA to take down videos that are either obviously fair use or that are infringing if you go by the letter of the law, but which fail the common sense test, badly.
But, as videos... |
18 July 2012
10:11 GMT |
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The Bilderberg appointed Barrack Obama is reportedly going to visit GlobalFoundries’ newest factory in Albany, New York. He’s said to applaud the great Abu Dhabi investment in USA’s industry. Since he wasn’t able to get America back on track as many have expected, President Obama is rightfully... |
8 May 2012
04:18 GMT |
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