Carrie Parker likes to say that her story isn’t a “typical homeless story.” It started with a teenager “knocking on my door, asking for a place to stay,” she said recently at her home in Adrian, Mich. The teenager was her ex-husband’s daughter and she’d run away. Parker decided to adopt her, but first she [...]
President Obama threw a star-studded, “Alice In Wonderland”-themed Halloween party at the White House in 2009, New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor writes in her new book, “The Obamas.” The party, parts of which were posted on the White House website and reported by Chicago Sun-Times’Lynn Sweet, saw the State Dining Room transformed into a Tim Burton-inspired fantasyland. [...]
The UK’s analogue TV era will come to an end on October 24, 2012, it was announced today. Eighty years from the first experimental broadcasts, the old five-channel system will be switched off for good. The digital television switchover started in 2008, giving millions of viewers extra channels and clearer pictures. There are just four [...]
Apple stores around the world began selling iPhone 4S today as fans queued up for the new handset – some overnight. Rob Shoesmith, a former binman from Coventry, queued for ten days to become the first man with an iPhone 4S at Apple’s Covent Garden store this morning. He was among a thousand people who [...]
The new software download is intended to bring older iPhones in line with the functions of iPhone 4S – including a new instant-messaging app, iMessage, and the iCloud service which shares music between your Apple devices Yesterday’s launch of Apple’s iPhone software became a disaster for Apple, as servers struggled to deal with the demand [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after Senate Republicans killed his $447 billion jobs bill, President Barack Obama said he isn’t taking no for an answer. In his first, combative appearance since a united Senate GOP caucus filibustered the jobs plan to death, Obama promised to keep the pressure on Congress for his job initiatives. “Now [...]
LCD sets from 2007 and 2008 affected 40in sets in danger of malfunction 138,000 ‘at risk’ units have been sold in UK and Ireland 630,000 affected units have been sold in Europe Sony is to recall 1.6million of its Bravia brand LCD TVs worldwide after several serious malfunctions involving parts ‘melting’. The 11 incidents took [...]
Today, the White House made formal what Metro Weekly first reported on Sept. 23: Gautam Raghavan, the former deputy White House liaison at the Department of Defense, is the new LGBT liaison in the White House Office of Public Engagement. White House spokesman Shin Inouye told Metro Weekly today in a statement, “The White House is pleased to [...]
UFO hunters are now turning to an Obama administration initiative in the hopes of revealing what the government really knows about extraterrestrials. Under the White House’s “We the People” program, citizens can appeal to officials “to take action on a range of important issues facing our country.” “If a petition gets enough support,” the government [...]
The photo highlight special events from September, including President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama talking with residents affected by Hurricane Irene and meeting with former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Join the forum discussion on this post
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