President Barack Obama is ready to offer cuts to Americans’ pensions to strike a deficit deal with Republicans, a White House official says. In return, Democratic Barack Obama wants higher taxes on the rich. The president will outline his budget plan next Wednesday, April 10. Barack Obama’s proposal is to cut the deficit by $1.8 [...]
President Barack Obama has apologized to California Attorney General Kamala Harris for the “good looking” remarks he made at a fundraising event on Thursday. Barack Obama described Kamala Harris, a long-time friend, as “the best-looking attorney general in the country”. Kamala Harris’s spokesman said she strongly supported Barack Obama but would not say whether she [...]
President Barack Obama is being accused of sexism for publicly remarking on California Attorney General Kamala Harris’s good looks at a fundraiser in San Francisco yesterday. Barack Obama said of Kamala Harris: “She’s brilliant and she’s dedicated, she’s tough…She also happens to be, by far, the best looking attorney general.” The president added: “It’s true! [...]
Michelle Obama admitted that she’s “proud” of President Barack Obama’s sex appeal during an interview with Entertainment Tonight this week. “He’s got a little swag, you know. That’s okay,” the First Lady said. The question came up when the interviewer asked about how it felt to have a husband who is considered a sex symbol, [...]
President Barack Obama has decided to give 5% of his salary back to the government to show solidarity with the federal workers who took pay cuts during the sequester. According to White House sources, Barack Obama will surrender 5% of his compensation in an effort to do his part during the period of fiscal cutbacks, [...]
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama kicked off the annual White House Easter Egg Roll this morning, welcoming 30,000 of visitors, children and families, into the grounds of their home. First off, the Obamas took to the South Lawn to help young competitors in the traditional egg-rolling race and later took a well-earned [...]
President Barack Obama has signed the so-called Monsanto Protection Act bill into law. The bill, the HR 933 continuing resolution, was written in part by the very billion-dollar corporation that will benefit directly from the legislation. Buried 78 pages within the bill exists a provision that grossly protects biotech corporations such as the California-based Monsanto Company [...]
President Barack Obama is ending his Middle East tour with a trip to the famous ruins of the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. The diplomatic part of his visit ended on Friday when he met King Abdullah and pledged an additional $200 million to help Syrian refugees in Jordan. Correspondents say Barack Obama’s four-day [...]
President Barack Obama and Miss Israel Yityish Aynaw, an Ethiopian Jewish immigrant, dined together at an official state dinner in Jerusalem, where the White House had requested her presence. Barack Obama was in Jerusalem as part of a four-day trip to Middle East, visiting Israel, Jordan and the West Bank. Yityish Aynaw, who goes by [...]
President Barack Obama has pledged to Jordan an additional $200 million to help deal with the growing number of Syrian refugees in the country. After talks in Amman, Barack Obama said the funds – if backed by Congress – would help provide more humanitarian aid. Some 450,000 Syrians have fled to neighboring Jordan since the [...]
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has apologized to Turkey for “any errors that could have led to loss of life” during the 2010 commando raid on an aid flotilla that tried to breach the Gaza blockade. Benjamin Netanyahu also agreed with Turkey’s PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan to compensate the families of the nine activists who were [...]
President Barack Obama is concluding his trip to Israel and the West Bank by paying his respects to victims of the Holocaust and visiting Bethlehem. Barack Obama went to the Yad Vashem museum after seeing the graves of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, and former Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin. He is touring Bethlehem’s [...]
Yityish Aynaw, an immigrant orphan from Ethiopia, who became the first black Miss Israel last month, has been invited to Thursday’s gala dinner with visiting President Barack Obama. Yityish Aynaw arrived in Israel at 12. Her mother had just died, leaving her an orphan as her father had died years earlier. Her mother’s parents, who [...]
President Barack Obama has met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a historical visit to the West Bank. Barack Obama has said that the US is “deeply committed” to creating a sovereign state of Palestine. Speaking after talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, Barack Obama said Israeli settlement activity was not “appropriate for peace”. US Secretary [...]
Barack Obama’s armored limo broke down on the way to Tel Aviv airport as the US president is making a historic visit to Israel. The custom General Motors Cadillac limo was relegated to a pick up truck after the driver accidentally put gas in the engine instead of diesel. President Barack Obama arrived in Tel [...]
Barack Obama has arrived in Tel Aviv for his first trip to Israel as US president. After landing in Tel Aviv, BarackObama also referred to the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, saying “peace must come to the Holy Land”. US officials have tried to lower expectations of any significant headway on restarting the peace process. Syria, and [...]
Barack Obama couldn’t partake in tasting a delicious menu of lobster, potato chips and blueberry pie on Thursday at a dinner with Senate Republicans because his taster hadn’t verified the food was safe. According to Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins, though he couldn’t indulge, Barack Obama “looked longingly at it”. Susan Collins had organized the [...]
Former basketball star Dennis Rodman, who recently visited North Korea, says Kim Jong-un doesn’t want war with the United States. Kim Jong-un just wants President Barack Obama to call him. Dennis Rodman, the highest-profile American to meet Kim Jong-un since he took power in North Korea in December 2011, says Barack Obama and Kim share [...]
Mitt Romney revealed today during his first interview since he lost US presidency that he believed in his heart he was going to win the election and go on to the White House, and that “it kills me” not to be president. Former GOP candidate Mitt Romney, 65, said today in his first interview since [...]
President Barack Obama has signed into effect a wave of steep spending cuts which he has warned could damage the US economy. The cuts – known as the sequester and drawn up two years ago – will take $85 billion from the US federal budget this year. Last-ditch talks at the White House to avert [...]
US political leaders are meeting for last-ditch talks at the White House, amid the prospect of steep budget cuts. Cuts worth $85 billion, originally passed in an effort to push Congress to strike a budget deal, are due to become law by the end of Friday. President Barack Obama is hosting Democratic and Republican leaders, [...]
After First Lady Michelle Obama wore a red and white check dress by online fashion retailer ASOS.com last year it quickly became a sellout. Now fashionistas who missed out stealing Michelle Obama’s style the first time round can get their hands on the dress again as it has gone back on sale today. The cotton [...]
A new North Korean propaganda video posted on YouTube has portrayed President Barack Obama and American troops in flames and says the country conducted its recent nuclear test because of U.S. hostility. The video, posted on Sunday, follows a string of critical rhetoric against the United States. Another video posted earlier this month showed an [...]
President Barack Obama played golf with Tiger Woods in Florida on Sunday as he took a break from work during President’s Day weekend. The unexpected golf pairing came as Barack Obama enjoys a “boy’s weekend” away from his wife and daughters, making his decision to spend the afternoon with one of the world’s most notorious [...]
The European Union and the US will begin formal talks on a free-trade agreement, paving the way for the biggest trade deal in history. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso made the announcement following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. A deal would bring down trading barriers between the two biggest economies in [...]
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Kim Kardashian finally puts her swollen feet in flatsAfter she raised eyebrows on Thursday as she crammed her swollen feet into Perspex heels, with painful looking results, Kim Kardashian finally seems to be giving her feet a…
Eva Longoria humiliating wardrobe malfunction at Cannes Film FestivalEva Longoria has suffered an extremely embarrassing wardrobe malfunction as she unfortunately revealed far more than she intended to upon screening of Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy…
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart split after cheating scandalRobert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have split after almost four years together, People magazine is reporting. The couple – who reportedly broke up briefly in December…
Eurovision 2013 winner is Denmark's Emmelie de Forest with Only TeardropsDenmark has won 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Swedish city of Malmo. Danish Emmelie de Forest had been the overwhelming favorite among the 26 entries, with her…
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Eurovision winners over the years. Where are they now?The Eurovision Song Contest has been running since 1956 and in that time, acts from around Europe have been singing their hearts out in the hope of winning the trophy. There…