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Rachel Rose Hartman, a White House reporter for Yahoo News, incorrectly referred to Kenya as the country of President Barack Obama’s birth. Despite a correction, a mob of angry Twitter users think she should be out of a job.

KTLA published an email sent to colleagues a day before the reporter's death in a fiery car crash.

A reputed KKK member allegedly and bizarrely also tried to enlist Jews to kill Muslims with the device.

The CIA training reportedly lasts two weeks and involves learning how to use Russian weapons.

Iceland has resumed commercial whaling, spurring protests from environmental activists. The fin whale is the second-largest mammal in the world and an endangered species.

The U.S. and Cuba are holding talks about policies and programs both governments want revised.

The little-known agency was set up to monitor national security decisions and raise flags if the government infringes on privacy and civil liberties.

If confirmed by the Senate, Comey would succeed FBI Director Robert Mueller, who has served in that role since 2001.

Under the Hoeven-Corker border security amendment to the U.S. immigration reform bill, DREAMers and agriculture workers need not worry.

Should Microsoft reach out to political consultants to help with its messaging problems after the Great 180?

The U.S. government has come under fresh scrutiny as top watchdog posts go unfilled for up to five years.

President Obama is all set to announce a set of climate change reforms as early as next week.

Very few politicians are openly gay and there has never been an openly homosexual US president.

The Fed chair ducked questions on a possible departure, and added he may start tapering QE this year. He wants "maximum employment."

President Obama's speech at the Brandenburg Gate occurred nearly 50 years after President Kennedy appeared there in defiance of the Berlin Wall.

The G-8 summit in Northern Ireland concluded on Tuesday with leaders split on the Syria issue.

President Obama went on PBS to defend NSA surveillance programs like PRISM, comparing them to DUI checkpoints and airport security.

Bill Maher, the obnoxious, execrable and unfunny “comic” who hosts a talk-show on HBO called “Real Time,” is inexplicably one of the most successful and popular television celebrities in the United States.His rise to the top presents yet another example of how mediocrity, vulgarity (and, of course, luck) are far more important in determining the quality of contemporary pop culture than such quaint and forgotten qualities as talent and integrity.Like many of his dubious contemporaries -- including Oprah Winfrey, Michael Moore, Spike Lee, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, among numerous others -- Maher has become a “brand,” a brand that is meticulously marketed for the sake of maximizing profit. Maher does not engage in reasoned debate, nor does he really care about the validity of his viewpoints. Having identified the demographic he wants to target (that is, upscale urban liberals), he simply ladles out what they want to hear.

Libya may have more weapons than the British army arsenal. What does that mean for Syria?

Protesters breached the security perimeter surrounding the G-8 summit venue in Northern Ireland on Monday, but dispersed after police warning.

President Obama again defended the government's surveillance programs. But he also conceded that secrecy is a "legitimate concern."