OBAMA STATE OF THE UNION Trending upward: Headed into tonight’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama finds himself riding the first approval ratings uptick in nearly two years….
Fifty percent say they approve of the job Obama’s doing as president, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll released on Monday. That’s the best Obama’s fared since the spring…
Birth place: Vadnagar, Gujarat, India Birthname: Narendra Damodardas Modi Father: Damodardas Modi Mother: Hiraba “Heeraben” Modi Marriage: Jashodaben (Chimanlal) Modi (1968-present, separated) – September 27-30, 2014 – Modi makes his…
Income inequality is like the weather: Everyone talks about it, but no one does much about it. Now comes President Obama in his State of the Union Address, hoping to…
President Barack Obama honored Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy Monday by big-brothering members of the next generation. – Speaking at a Delaware breakfast, Vice President Joe Biden said communities and…
John Elway believed he needed a new coach to get the Denver Broncos to the “next level.” The executive vice president trusts his former backup quarterback to take them to…
Inside the Democratic Party, economic policy is often seen as a contest between President Barack Obama’s track record and the anti-Wall Street approach advocated by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. As…
Republican lawmakers are already signaling they will do what they can to block President Barack Obama’s pitch for tax increases on the wealthiest Americans. Obama is making that pitch to…
Rebel Shiite Houthis battled soldiers near Yemen’s presidential palace and elsewhere across the capital Monday, seizing control of the country’s state-run media in a move an official called “a step…
Nisman, who had been under the protection of a 10-member security detail, was set to testify Monday to lawmakers on a report alleging that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and…
A Maryland man who returned home last month after spending five years imprisoned in Cuba will have a prime viewing spot for President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address:…
The roads were closed as a security measure after the presidential chief of staff was abducted in Sanaa last week. Yemen described the unfolding events as a bid to seize…
Ukraine’s President and prime minister were among those who attended the rally that had as its slogan “I am Volnovakha,” in memory of the 13 passengers who died near the…
French economist Thomas Piketty met with Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Saturday, according to the Buenos Aires Herald. – “They would do better to concentrate on reviving [economic]…
The executions, carried out by firing squad shortly after midnight Sunday local time, were the first under Indonesia’s new president Joko Widodo. Citizens of Malawi, Nigeria and Vietnam were also…
It comes courtesy of the award-winning cocktail waitress at Waoo!, a private restaurant run by 41-year-old Cuban entrepreneur Alain Rodriguez. “The recipe for success is maintaining the real taste of…
When advertising last year’s Block of Cheese Day, then-press secretary Jay Carney paired up with “West Wing” stars Bradley Whitford and Joshua Malina to promote the event. The former NBC…
We put them all together into one single State of the Union address by eleven different presidents and spanning 67 years. Nobody knows every word President Obama will say on…
In one corner, enigmatic Frenchman David Ginola, his carefully coiffured hair and dulcet tones a sparkly antidote to the man in the other, current incumbent and balding septuagenarian Sepp Blatter….
Those groups are battling forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and extremist groups like ISIS, as well as others linked to al Qaeda. – CNN’s Chloe Sommers contributed to…
“There are horror stories, obviously,” Mathieu Labasse, AsiaInspection’s vice president told CNN by phone. “We find factories that just have no basic idea about hygiene standards. People that handle the…
Add those new proposals to an existing plan to give more help to first-time homebuyers and there appears to be a full year’s agenda on tap as the President prepares…
Following his State of the Union speech Tuesday, President Barack Obama will sit down with viral YouTube stars Bethany Mota, GloZell Green, and Hank Green for a live question and…
Birth place: San Francisco, California Birth name: Clinton Eastwood, Jr. Father: Clinton Eastwood, Sr., a corporate executive Mother: Margaret Ruth (Runner) Wood Eastwood, a homemaker Marriages: Dina Ruiz (March 31,…
Romney to speak at RNC meeting – Romney will address members of the Republican National Committee on Friday — his first public comments since news broke that he was serious…
Clinton’s spokesman has said for the last two weeks that the former secretary of state’s public schedule would be quiet, and it won’t be until Jan. 21the day after President…
Sounds like a statement, if found in print or said on-air, that would instantly draw e-missiles from angry White House officials. Instead, top aides to President Barack Obama have fully…
President Barack Obama will renew his push for paid sick days and paid family leave for the millions of American workers who don’t have either during a visit to Baltimore…
Comedian Jay Leno is slated to warm up the group on Wednesday night. But even before boarding buses to Pennsylvania, some Republicans clearly weren’t ready to sing kumbaya. “I think…
He told a group of about 200 residents and workers at the Cedar Falls Utilities company that he wants to make sure communities across America have the options that residents…