A small plane crashed off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Sunday, killing both people on board, authorities said.
As the president leaves for vacation on Martha's Vineyard - some are questioning the decision. CNN's Dan Lothian reports.
How do you score partisan points against a president who looks to have won a military victory in Libya at very low cost? Simple: Attack him for being away from Washington at a summer house when the victory was won.
For someone sometimes called "no drama Obama," Barack Obama sure has a lot of it on his summer reading list.
After returning late Wednesday night from a three-day bus tour of Middle America, President Obama left Washington once again Thursday afternoon -- this time for Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts and a 10-day vacation with his family.
When someone sends me an outlandish, ridiculous, asinine and flat-out dumb tweet, I will quickly give them a Stuck on Stupid Tweet of the Day award. So when it comes to those folks who are whining, complaining and making hay out of President Barack Obama taking a week off to go on vacation with his wife and children in Martha's Vineyard, let me be clear that all of you fools have earned that award!
In mid-May, Martha's Vineyard is a pregnant widow.*
My first newspaper job after college was at the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard, an island in Massachusetts surrounded by sea and ocean, some of it very moody and turbulent. Once a summer, the editor, Henry Hough, would publish an editorial under the headline "Beware the Riptide," or some similar wording. Among other things, the piece told you what to do in a riptide. In that same spirit, and with spring-break here, I'd like to point you to the United States Lifesaving Association Web site, USLA.org, for a primer on safe open-water swimming.
Hurricane Earl swept the North Carolina coast with powerful wind gusts. CNN's Rob Marciano reports.
Here are the latest developments on Hurricane Earl.
The menace of Hurricane Earl comes at a bad time for any of the vacation-starved Americans who are heading to parts of the East Coast this Labor Day weekend.
CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers says Hurricane Earl could produce up to 40 foot waves along the East Coast shoreline.
Administration officials are still reviewing a federal judge's decision to grant a preliminary injunction stopping federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said Tuesday.
President Barack Obama and his wife went out to dinner Monday night, venturing to a Martha's Vineyard restaurant they also visited on their vacation last year.
CNN's Dan Lothian reports on the flack president's have faced for spending time outside of Washington on vacation.
President Obama and his family are spending time away from Washington but their weeklong vacation on Martha's Vineyard is unlikely to be free of controversy.
President Barack Obama and his family begin a week-long vacation in Martha's Vineyard on Friday -- the president's second time on the island off the coast of Massachusetts.
CNN's Dan Lothian reports on presidential vacations and how a crisis never takes a break.
The Best Actress for Hud was 84, and had a glorious and grueling life
The Rev. William Eddy stands at the bow of his 53-foot sailboat nestled in the postcard setting of Cape Cod.
A few days after Meagan Bilodeau dropped a bottled message into the Atlantic Ocean during a cruise near Bermuda, the girl was home in Massachusetts.
Former President Bill Clinton shares memories and stories of Walter Cronkite at his memorial.
Tapes released by federal officials detail efforts by an airline pilot to allow passengers off his stranded plane,
Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He was 77.
The last of the legendary Kennedy brothers succumbs after suffering a brain tumor
CNN's Dan Lothian reports on African-Americans in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, as President Obama prepares to visit.
U.S. stocks were set for a modestly higher open Tuesday, following President Obama's appointment of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and a report showing a decline in home prices.
Morgan Stanley Asia's chairman talks about the global economy.
President Obama faces calls from senators to postpone the public option. CNN's Jim Acosta reports.
With health care negotiations stalled until Congress comes back from August recess, a top Democratic strategist says President Obama and his party need to seize control of the debate.
President Obama and his family are hoping for a chance to unwind during their weeklong getaway to Martha's Vineyard.
Hurricane Bill spun northward toward the New England coast Saturday with wind and rain as officials warned beach lovers to head indoors for the night.
For the last two weeks, Americans have been divided into two feuding camps: "Team Gates" and "Team Crowley." But after Thursday, those terms seem antiquated.
The veteran anchor leaves three children, four grandchildren - and millions of admirers
The first family is heading to Massachusetts next month for some rest and relaxation.
In a matter of months, South Mountain Co., a design and construction firm based on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard, saw its two-year backlog of projects shrink to a mere six months' worth of work.
This piece is adapted from THE BIG ONE, copyright © 2009 by David Kinney, reprinted by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Keri Russell, who stars in the new Adam Sandler comedy "Bedtime Stories," says her own son is a little too young to enjoy a story before bedtime.
The actor was found dead Monday on Martha's Vineyard
NAME: Charles A. Donadio Jr., CEO
CNN's Dan Lothian reports on the sighting of a massive shark off Martha's Vineyard.
In search of the perfect caucus, Joel Stein joined Iowans in their bead-throwing, rule-morphing festival
The novelist talks to TIME's Andrea Sachs about his new novel The Race.
In recent years the number of diet developers and holistic healers hawking products to purge your body of harmful chemicals and foreign substances has exploded. But do your liver and lymph nodes really need cleaning? Some detox regimen -- like herbal supplements, spa treatments, and special diets that are designed to mop up pollutants, dietary waste, and even unwanted pounds --can actually do you some good. But how to know whether you should be trying any of them?
When Jack Bogle, founder of the Vanguard group of mutual funds, says that he has just reached his 11th birthday, he is only partly kidding.
Travelers seem to have a healthy appetite for culinary tourism, whether it involves making caldo verde or sipping Cabernet Sauvignon.
Former President Bill Clinton has been celebrating his 60th birthday at breakneck speed and he will be continuing to do so for months to come, according to news reports. Given the many laughs he has afforded me over the years, I hope he will proceed at a more restrained pace. I could not bear to see him make another run to the emergency room. The sudden whitening of his hair since his retirement from the White House and shrinkage of his once fleshy physique should admonish voluptuaries everywhere of the potential health threats from recreational sex.
We may still be bundled under our winter coats in some parts of the country, but now is the time to start locking in your summer vacation rental. Early birds have already started to book the hottest summer rentals across the country.
Paul Theroux admits it. He used drugs to write his new novel.
There's no better time to be a sports enthusiast in Boston than right now.
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