
Barack Obama wasted little time on Wednesday as he headed back to Washington hours after celebrating his election victory in Chicago and securing a second term in the White House. Fresh challenges lie ahead for the president as the stock market tumbled in response to his triumph at the polls over Mitt Romney and sabre-rattling [...]

US President Barack Obama and his family cost the taxpayer $1.4 billion per year, according to a recently published book. By contrast, the British Royal Family costs less than $60 million each year. Two of the principal costs of the Obama presidency – and any other presidency – are staffing and security, according to Robert [...]

A privately-owned Cessna aircraft was intercepted by two fighter jets yesterday entering the same Los Angeles airspace as Marine One while the helicopter was ferrying President Barack Obama. After the small plane landed at Long Beach Airport, police then discovered it contained about 40 pounds of marijuana, a law enforcement official said. The Secret Service [...]
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Recordings of the conversations between Air Force One and the White House communications office immediately after President John F. Kennedy assassination were made public this week. One of the calls was between a White House radio operator who had to inform the Secretary of State that the President had been killed and that there was [...]