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Why is Warren Buffet's secretary an honored guest at the 2012 State Union?

It turns out that Thomas went to the same high school -- though decades later -- as leftist filmmaker Michael Moore, Davison High in a suburb of Flint, Mich.

The setting was Puritan Boston in 1642. Hester Prynne emerged from prison rejected, condemned, and spurned. Her crime? Conceiving a child from an adulterous affair. Her punishment? Wearing a scarlet letter A on her chest and bearing the wrath of her town along with it.

Kerry, 68, had two black eyes, a broken nose and visible bruises on his face.

The Boston Bruins were invited to the White House on Monday to celebrate their 2011 Stanley Cup win. One player however, refused to go. Goaltender Tim Thomas did not attend the event.

Former Gov. Mitt Romney paid $3 million in federal taxes on 2010 income of $21.7 million in 2010. That means his effective income tax rate was 13.9 percent -- lower than what the vast majority of wealthy Americans pay.

She added that the U.S. had absolute respect for all Indians, including Sikhs.

The NHL champions visited the White House this week to meet the president.

The White House is defending the Transportation Security Administration after a standoff with Sen. Rand Paul Monday morning and comments made by his father, presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul.

Hundreds of protesters are expected to swarm Capitol Hill on Tuesday dressed as referees in order to blow the whistle on what they claim is a pattern of fossil-fuel funded corruption in Congress.

She is confident that Obama will be re-elected and that the president’s second term will be highly successful.

President Barack Obama will be hosting a Google Hangout session on January 30th at 9 p.m. (EST) in addition to offering an enhanced version of the State of the Union speech on January 24 at 9 p.m. (EST).

Following a visit to the Disney World in Orlando, Fl., on Thursday, to speak about boosting the country's economy through tourism, U.S. President Barack Obama announced steps, over the weekend, to cash in on the country's tourism potential.

Humbled by a stunning loss in South Carolina, Mitt Romney said on Sunday he would release this week the tax returns demanded by rivals as he bids to regain the upper hand in the volatile Republican presidential race.

Humbled by a stunning loss in South Carolina, Mitt Romney said on Sunday he would release this week the tax returns demanded by rivals in his bid to regain the upper hand in the volatile Republican presidential race.

The massive online protest last Wednesday, in which Wikipedia and thousands of other Web sites closed down or otherwise protested and helped to kill controversial online piracy legislation, was widely heralded as an unprecedented case of a grassroots uprising overcoming backroom lobbying.

After a bruising clash in South Carolina, Republican presidential front-runners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich will take their battle to a bigger stage when the campaign moves to Florida on Sunday. The Palmetto State's primary-election results indicate their fight may last quite a few more rounds.

Voting on much debated SOPA and PIPA bills could be delayed in the light of recent events.

Megaupload is reportedly part of one of the biggest criminal copyright infringement networks U.S. authorities have ever taken down. Seven people were indicted by a Virginia grand jury Jan. 19, and charged with racketeering, money laundering and other charges. Megaupload was allegedly using the Web site as a front for black market content swapping, and had many legitimate users on the site sharing many kinds of legal content. Members who felt cheated out of their money took to Facebook and Twitte...

A fast-moving, wind-driven brush fire south of Reno burned several homes on Thursday, and led to the evacuation of 10,000 people. Wind gusts of up to 82 mph continue to push the fire out of control, threatening dozens more homes.

The South Carolina primary is on Jan. 21, 2012, and GOP candidates Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich were gunning for every vote during tonight's second debate. Who do you think won this round, and who do you support for the 2012 GOP nomination? Vote here to let us know.