In winning the Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama joins an elite group of U.S. presidents. He is the fourth to win the prize, the third to win it while in office and the first to receive it during his first year in office.
When did the Heisman Trophy race become lengthier and costlier than a presidential campaign?
President Theodore Roosevelt is generally credited with launching a nationwide push for campaign spending reform. Embarrassed by disclosure of secret donations by insurance firms to his 1904 election, he supported congressional efforts to ban corporate dollars in national races.
Most of us pick up a razor at least every couple of days, and although shaving's a little tedious, it's not too much of a hassle.
We're in the throes of summer vacation season, but at least one American is still on the job. While it's rumored that President Obama will follow in the footsteps of President Clinton and vacation on Martha's Vineyard, he hasn't had a chance to break out his Bermuda shorts just yet. When Obama does take off, though, he'll join in the grand tradition of presidential vacations, like these notable ones:
When a film cast includes names like Ben Stiller, Robin Williams and Owen Wilson, a bit of improvisation on set is to be expected.
1. The Jim Bowden saga is not a distraction to the players.
Craggy-faced film, television and stage actor James Whitmore has died at 87, the Los Angeles County, California, Sheriff's Department confirmed Saturday.
Barack Obama's daughters are moving into a house with a swimming pool, a bowling alley and its own movie theater.
When a new president strolls into the White House, there's a kick in his step and a twinkle in his eyes.
In winning the Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama joins an elite group of U.S. presidents. He is the fourth to win the prize, the third to win it while in office and the first to receive it during his first year in office.
When did the Heisman Trophy race become lengthier and costlier than a presidential campaign?
President Theodore Roosevelt is generally credited with launching a nationwide push for campaign spending reform. Embarrassed by disclosure of secret donations by insurance firms to his 1904 election, he supported congressional efforts to ban corporate dollars in national races.
Most of us pick up a razor at least every couple of days, and although shaving's a little tedious, it's not too much of a hassle.
We're in the throes of summer vacation season, but at least one American is still on the job. While it's rumored that President Obama will follow in the footsteps of President Clinton and vacation on Martha's Vineyard, he hasn't had a chance to break out his Bermuda shorts just yet. When Obama does take off, though, he'll join in the grand tradition of presidential vacations, like these notable ones:
When a film cast includes names like Ben Stiller, Robin Williams and Owen Wilson, a bit of improvisation on set is to be expected.
1. The Jim Bowden saga is not a distraction to the players.
Craggy-faced film, television and stage actor James Whitmore has died at 87, the Los Angeles County, California, Sheriff's Department confirmed Saturday.
Barack Obama's daughters are moving into a house with a swimming pool, a bowling alley and its own movie theater.
When a new president strolls into the White House, there's a kick in his step and a twinkle in his eyes.
Nine sites in the central Pacific will be set as sanctuaries for marine life and bases of research for scientists, President Bush said Tuesday.
As a candidate, Barack Obama promoted hybrid cars.
The hotel that will be home to President-elect Barack Obama and his family for the next couple of weeks offers one of Washington's best views of their future home, the White House, and a past linked with political movers and shakers.
In his concession speech on Tuesday night, John McCain illustrated the historic significance of Barack Obama's election by noting that a little over a century ago the inclusion of another black man, Booker T. Washington, at a White House dinner provoked outrage in large parts of the country.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain conceded the presidential race before a crowd of supporters in Phoenix on Tuesday. He also congratulated Sen. Barack Obama. Here is a transcript:
Since the days of George Washington, U.S. presidents have carved out a long tradition of official road trips, if not by motorcade, then by railroad or horse and carriage.
The first full night of the Republican convention's hurricane-interrupted proceedings had the unintentional feel of a valedictory.
Former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee spoke to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night. Here is the text of the speech:
I had the flu. But not just any flu. No, this was the kind of bug that forces a normally rational human being to dial information and beg the operator for Jack Kevorkian's home phone number.
All of the names and previously classified files identifying nearly 24,000 spies who formed the first centralized intelligence effort by the United States have been released
Politicians since Theodore Roosevelt have fretted over big donors' impact on U.S. elections; a hundred years later, though, campaigns still cost money
When the Fed concludes a two-day meeting, it is expected that the central bank will express more concerns about inflation and in that way signal that rate increases could be on the way
Use this information to teach your students about campaign finance.
The game of the year will take place in New Jersey on Wednesday night as No. 1 St. Anthony (Jersey City, N.J.) puts its undfeated record on the line against bitter rival St. Patrick (Elizabeth, N.J.) at Rutgers.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
Panama blasted away part of a hillside next to the canal on Monday, marking the start of the waterway's biggest expansion since it opened 93 years ago.
Dinosaurs shared the Earth for millions of years with the species that were their ancestors, a new study concludes
Arnold Schwarzenegger's private office is in a commercial building in Santa Monica, and it bulges with manly-man props from the movies. It's a long way, then - in every way - from Theodore Roosevel...
Below is the text of the Democratic response to President Bush's speech, delivered by Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia:
Nowadays both Lenin and Lennon are commemorated in statue in Havana. It's perhaps not surprising; after all, music and politics are synonymous with Cuba and its famous capital. Cuba may be one of the last bastions of Communism, but Castro's twilight years have seen the Caribbean island adopt a more friendly face after its long, lonely years as a Cold War warrior. The country that once almost pitched the world into atomic conflict is now happy to accept tourist dollars. These days Che Guevara, the poster boy of the Revolution, is as much a photogenic salesman for Caribbean beach holidays and Havana city breaks as countercultural icon. Ever since "Buena Vista Social Club" and its spinoffs launched Cuban artists into the mainstream, the island has also reaped the rewards of its rich musical heritage with groups such as Buena Fe among its most successful exports. Narrowly separated from the mainland U.S. by the Florida Straits, Cuba was an American obsession long before the 1959 Revolution. Theodore Roosevelt
As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice journeys from the United States to the Middle East to Europe, she joins a long line of officials who have tried to broker an end to disputes among warring states or factions.
Of course it's news -- real, gee-whiz news -- when the second-richest man in the world decides to give away the bulk of his fortune -- most of it to a foundation run by the richest man in the world.
At home and abroad, he was the locomotive president, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future.
Most people know somebody who claims to be "tone deaf." Now scientists in the UK are using the Internet to conduct the largest ever investigation into the musical listening disorder.
The following is one of my favorite thoughts on the issue of immigration. It's from President Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919, 10 years after his presidency. --Lou Dobbs
Although he has three years left in office, President Bush is spending the holiday week at his ranch reading a book about Theodore Roosevelt's life after he left the White House.
As the summer of 2005 turns into autumn, each new public opinion poll reports even further hemorrhaging of voters' confidence in the federal government and the Bush administration.
If you're one of those rare individuals known as an "undecided voter," you have a choice to make, between two men whose opinions offer stark contrasts.
There was no official announcement, no press release. But make no mistake about it. As demonstrated daily in the language used by those who wage and those who analyze this uninspiring presidential campaign, the historic meaning of the word "patriotism" has been totally rewritten.
I just finished reading Rush drummer Neil Peart's "Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road." The book is an account of Peart's self-imposed exile and travels to grieve the deaths of his wife and daughter, who both died within a year of each other.
President George W. Bush's occasional broken syntax is not a felony.
For a complete experience, build a whole trip around our founding documents. Within blocks of Philadelphia's National Constitution Center is the Thomas Bond House (129 S. Second St.; 800-845-2663;w...
Deep in upstate New York's Adirondack Mountains, two miles east of the town of Newcomb, there's a roadside plaque on Highway 28 N. It's a historical marker designating the spot where Theodore Roose...
By sheer coincidence, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow's biography of the leading industrialist of the Gilded Age, John D. Rockefeller, was published on the eve of the Justice Department's Ma...
When did big government begin? Conservatives of all ages tend to think federal spending went out of control around their tenth birthday. Commentators who have a little more historical perspective t...
A PRISONER SHORTAGE
There's no disputing the final count. Bill Clinton won 43% of the popular vote and 370 electoral votes, while George Bush took 38% of the vote and 168 electoral ballots. Question is, does that marg...
With the election of Bill Clinton, 46, and Al Gore, 44, one can almost feel the great Schlesingerian wheel of generational change in American politics begin to turn. You remember the historian's th...
Money alone won't buy the Texas billionaire the presidency. ''If Ross Perot's message were the same as George Bush's,'' says GOP political analyst Kevin Phillips, ''his money would hang him.'' But ...
While nobody has made a big deal of it yet, there is a baby-boomer running for President. Bill Clinton, born August 19, 1946, rides the leading edge, the fortunate foam, of that demographic tsunami...
In The Disuniting of America (Whittle Direct Books, $11.95), Arthur Schlesinger Jr. takes on the hot topic of multiculturalism in a lively 83-page essay. Like other titles in its ''Larger Agenda'' ...
''Ranch owners compare very favorably with similar classes of capitalists in the East. A successful ((rancher)) must not only be shrewd . . . and enterprising, but he must also possess qualities of...
In a year with so many candidates, choosing which campaign buttons to store in the attic can be even more difficult than predicting the next President. The election will be decided in November, but...
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