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A lot of Americans aren’t ready to let go of the resigning governor, stepping down later this month with 18 months left in her term, citing the “insane” business of dealing with consuming ethics complaints back home in the aftermath of her brief stint on a national stage as the Republican 2008 vice presidential nominee. Palin [...]

President Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan and travelling through Ghana today, was asked what Africa means to him – “Is it half of you?”
“Well, no, I don’t think it would be fair to say it was half,” the president told an interviewer for Sky News. “You know, I never lived here. I didn’t [...]

President Barack Obama, presiding over “the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression,” has returned to the United States from the most recent of many international journeys with a message: Confidence that the U.S. “will weather this storm.”
In an Op-ed essay appearing in newspapers today, the president says this of the $787-billion economic stimulus [...]

United States President Barack Obama says it is going to be a long road to recovery on the back of dire unemployment figures.
Almost another half a million jobs in the US economy were lost in the month of June, pushing the unemployment rate to 9.5 per cent – the highest in 26 years and still [...]

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has rejected criticism from US President Barack Obama that his thinking is still influenced by Cold War attitudes.
Mr Obama makes his first visit to Moscow as president on Monday, with talks scheduled with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev and Mr Putin.
The US President has used an Associated Press interview to [...]

I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt’s advancement.
Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. [...]

On the eve of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday celebration and the approach of his own historic swearing-in as president, Barack Obama stood Sunday in front of the Lincoln Memorial, evoked the country’s heroes and heritage and told the nation that “the dream of our founders will live on in time.”
Obama spoke during [...]

Reversing course, Senate Democrats grudgingly accepted embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s hand-selected Senate appointee, Roland Burris, as they sought to break an impasse over President-elect Barack Obama’s former seat.
The new Illinois senator is expected to be sworn into office later this week.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois made [...]

A week shy of taking office, President-elect Barack Obama already is putting his persuasion skills to a high-stakes test with Congress as he seeks access to the second half of the $700 billion financial bailout fund.Obama planned to be in the Capitol on Tuesday to meet with Senate Democrats. And his transition team prepared to [...]

BushWith rare public emotion, George W. Bush sat in judgment on his controversial, consequential presidency on Monday, lamenting mistakes but claiming few as his own, heatedly defending his record on disasters in Iraq and at home and offering kindly advice to a successor who won largely because the nation ached for something new.
By turns wistful, [...]