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President Obama has been mostly silent on the issue of guns. Meanwhile, states are engaging in a largely successful push for expanded gun rights, even passing measures that have been rejected before.

Cheney’s ability to influence policy — as opposed to influencing cable-news programming — may be dulled by his insensitivity to timing and penchant for rhetorical bombast, with such quotes as describing Obama as “a guy without much experience, who campaigned against much of what we put in place … …

Everybody Hurts, recorded to help Haiti’s earthquake victims, has sold more than 453,000 copies in its first week to go straight to number one.

Recorded on February 1st, 2010, in the same studio as the original 25 years earlier (Henson Recording Studios, formerly A&M Recording Studios) “We Are The World 25 For Haiti”, in which Jones and Richie …

And a question for Washington Pune was attacked today, days after days after a top leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba named Pune as a target city at a public

Why does the greatest superstar in Indian cinema history hanker so much for political patronage?

A Con Edison transformer exploded beneath the sidewalk on Avenue of the Americas this morning, badly damaging a building full of stores and offices. But fire officials said there no immediate reports of injuries.

Newly released photographs show what a damaged World Trade Center tower and its collapse looked like from a New York Police Department helicopter as it flew nearby on September 11, 2001, in New York.