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The boy who touched the presidents hair
The story behind a photograph showing a 5-year-old black boy touching President Obama's hair--which has been hanging in the West Wing of the White House for more than three years--may be coming to your inbox soon.
Obama is ahead in swing states, but his lead narrows
President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney in Florida, Ohio and Virginia, according to new polls of the key 2012 swing states, although Obama's advantage has narrowed in recent months.
Man confesses to strangling Etan Patz
The New York City police commissioner says a man in custody has implicated himself in the death of Etan Patz, the boy whose disappearance 33 years ago sparked the movement to put the faces of missing children on milk cartons.
Cell phone users prefer Obama, landline users like Romney
Political pollsters have been under pressure to make sure their samples include Americans who rely solely on cell phonesand the latest NBC News/Marist polls of Florida, Ohio and Virginia exhibit why.
Can Meg Whitman save Hewlett Packard?
The former eBay executive who was hired as H-P chief last September announced the company would lay off about eight percent of its 300,000 workforce over the next two years, one of many changes that are coming to the troubled personal computer maker.
Katie's Take: Mistakes that twentysomethings make
Katie Couric talks to a clinical psychologist about some of the mistakes recent college grads makeand how to avoid them.
Fleet Week kicks off in NYC
Santorum endorses Ted Cruz in Texas Senate race
"Ted Cruz is spellbinding, a tremendous orator and principled," Santorum said on Glenn Beck's radio show Thursday morning, according to Santorum's staff.
Alleged Lego scammer sold 2,100 boxes through website, cops say
The California software exec arrested for allegedly switching bar codes on high priced Lego sets resold them online through "TomsBrickyard."
Photos: Rare photos from an A-Bomb test in 1955
Hillary Clinton: U.S. hacked al-Qaida sites
In a rare glimpse into cyber warfare tactics, a top U.S. official has explicitly acknowledged that the U.S. government hacked into websites run by Al Qaedas affiliate in Yemen, changing advertisements that boasted about killing Americans into advertisements that underscored the deaths of Muslim civilians...
Wavering Egyptians vote for president
Egyptians, choosing their leader freely for the first time in history, voted for a second day on Thursday in an election that is a fruit of last year's popular revolt against Hosni Mubarak.
Chen's brother flees east China village for Beijing
The brother of a blind Chinese activist who triggered a diplomatic row between Beijing and Washington arrived in the capital Thursday after escaping his heavily guarded home, a rights lawyer said.
Iran navy saves U.S. freighter from pirates: report
Iran's navy said Thursday it saved an American-flagged cargo ship that was being attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Oman.
Romneys second TV ad focuses on deficit and China trade
Mitt Romney is out with his second TV ad of the general election, a spot that continues the theme of what he would do on "day one" of his presidency. Romney's first ad, released last Friday, focused on the presumptive Republican nominee's pledges to approve the Keystone pipeline, to repeal President Barack Obama's health care [...]
McGraw to give 25 homes to members of military
Tim McGraw will be saluting veterans in a big way while on tour this summer.
Inside the bus during Florida drum major's fatal hazing
New documents describe a culture that considers repeated "hot seat" beatings and the final "crossing over" gauntlet that killed Robert Champion as rites of passage.
Photos: Cheetah cubs debut at the National Zoo
Two cheetah cubs have been transported to the Smithsonian's National Zoo May 23 to be raised by hand after a risky birth three weeks ago at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology.
Searchers follow route where missing student was last seen
Dozens of searches gathered to ride the route presumably taken by a missing Louisiana student.
New Orleans to lose daily newspaper
The Times-Picayune, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, announced on Thursday a plan to slash its print publication to three days a weekeffectively leaving New Orleans without a daily newspaper. As part of the move, the New York Times reports that there will be "massive" layoffs at 175-year-old Times-Picayune as [...]
Bill Clinton posed with p**n stars at gala he co-hosted
By now you've seenthe photo of Bill Clinton with the p**n stars, the one that began circulating on Twitter last evening and is now inPage Six, and in various other tabloids, along with faux shocked headlines like "What will Hillary say?"Nevermind that Clinton simply posed with the women, that they were fully clothed, and that chances are, if you get your picture with a p**n star, you're probably not actually going to get involved with her physically. At least, we think that would be a foolish PR move.
