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Barack Obama will pay CBS almost $1 million for its half-hour ad buy in prime time Wednesday, Oct. 29.

"I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in," the former president said to applause from members of a local business group. "You can spend your money better than the government can spend .

The most important group of religious leaders in Iran called for the results to be thrown out, the most public sign of a major split in the clerical establishment.

The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G. K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of radical Islam has triumphed and largely dominates the political and social life of the country. Because of this, alcohol sales are

Sarah Palin showed on Friday that in one respect at least, she is qualified to be president. Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy. Usually we don’t find that exquisite battiness in our leaders until they’ve been battered by sordid scandals like Watergate

Over the next week, President Obama will be trying to put to bed the Cold War in Russia, rewrite the rules for international finance in Italy and reassure developing countries they retain his attention in Ghana.

Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev end a seven-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian summitry on Monday, with both men declaring their determination to further cut nuclear arsenals and repair a badly damaged relationship.

10. She’s fulfilling a lifelong desire to travel the globe, hoping to visit all three continents by the end of 2009. . .

Determined to change the way the world views the United States, Barack Obama is onto his next foreign mission: rebuilding relations with Russia, proving to global leaders that America is serious about climate change, and outlining his vision for Africa, h

The Australian Defence Department has confirmed it is investigating claims Australian sailors engaged in a sex-for-money competition. Sailors from the HMAS Success ran a contest to see who could sleep with the most female crew members.

Russian PM Vladimir Putin urges the US to shelve its missile defence shield, as Barack Obama prepares to visit Moscow.

Rep. Marcia Blackburn U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, has become the sixth co-sponsor of a proposal by Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., that would require documentation of eligibility from presidential candidates. She has joined Reps. John C

A Long Island, New York, social worker is facing two misdemeanor charges after allegedly posting a sexually suggestive ad on Craigslist that gave interested parties the home phone number of a 9-year-old girl.

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U.S. President Barack Obama is preparing for another round of international travel.

In Rolling Stone Issue 1082-83, Matt Taibbi takes on the Wall Street Bubble Mafia — investme...

The thunderous rumble of American armoured personnel carriers storming the Taliban's Helmand citadel, and the whir of its largest helicopter deployment since the Vietnam war - these are the backing tracks as President Barack Obama's Afghanistan policy arr