Los Angeles (ots/PRNewswire) - Loree Rodkin ist eine Visionärin, in deren Modekollektionen die Grenzen zwischen Moderne und Mittelalter oftmals verschwimmen. Ihre handgefertigten Stücke wurden bereits von Kunden wie Cher, Madonna, Sir Elton John und Michelle Obama getragen. Rodkin, die selbst ...

Brian Krebs reporting in Krebs on Secruity: "The Obama administration is inviting leaders of the top Internet domain name registrars and registries to attend a three-hour meeting at the White House next month about voluntary ways to crack down on Web sites that are selling counterfeit prescription medications..." Follow CircleID on TwitterMore under: Cybercrime...

PRESIDENT defends wading into debate on controversial Ground Zero mosque as plan ignites deep divisions within America.

krou writes "Coming on the back of human rights groups criticising Wikileaks, American officials are saying that the Obama administration is pressuring allies such as Australia, Britain, and Germany to open criminal investigations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and to try limit his ability to travel. 'It's not just our troops that are put in jeopardy by this leaking. It's U.K. troops...

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has signed a law to shield US writers and publishers from "libel tourists".

In Chicago! President Barack Obama visited Graham Elliot restaurant in Chicago on Wednesday to dine with Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and his friends Eric Whittaker and Marty Nesbitt. Sounds like quite an A-list affair! We can only imagine what the group talked about. Hope he had a very Happy Birthday! [Image via AP Images.]

If your significant other can't be there to celebrate your birthday, Oprah Winfrey is pretty good substitute. President Obama turned 49 yesterday and chose to celebrate...

Les Etats-Unis vont garantir un nouveau prêt à Ford pour l'aider à exporter 200.000 véhicules, a annoncé jeudi Barack Obama en visitant une usine du groupe automobile, nouvelle occasion pour le président de vanter le sauvetage de ce secteur.

US-Präsident Obama konnte Erfreuliches verkünden: Nicht nur, dass es BP gelungen ist, das Bohrloch im Golf von Mexiko zu verschließen. Zwei Drittel des ausgetretenen Öls sind offenbar bereits verschwunden. Ausgestanden ist die Katastrophe damit aber nicht, es verbleiben noch 200 Millionen Liter Öl im Meer.

Despite the fact that just about everyone has an opinion on it, the jury's out on whether President Obama is a latter day Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Obamas Sicherheitspolitik sei schlimmer als die von Bush, meint US-Sicherheitsexperte Bruce Schneier – und äußert sich zum Afghanistan-Coup von Wikileaks und einer mysteriösen Datei. mehr... Mehr zum Thema: Nach FBI-Beobachtung: Wikileaks publiziert Lebensversicherung Debatte Afghanistan: The war must go on Militärvideos bei Wikileaks:...

The newly engaged couple tell Jimmy Kimmel the Obama family is "absolutely" invited

AP - First lady Michelle Obama is becoming a fixture on the Vanity Fair International Best-Dressed List — but it's soccer star David Beckham who earned a spot in the hall of fame.

La obra relata la campaña presidencial del político y se presentará en EU en el otoño

US President Barack Obama says Washington will fulfill its pledge to halt combat operations in Iraq by the end of this month, but many Iraqis fear that US disengagement could portend a surge in violence.

PRESIDENT Obama has pledged to pull U.S. combat troops out of Iraq by August 31

Los estadounidenses están acostumbrados a que la relación entre Sarah Palin y las palabras sea noticia cada vez que sale a la palestra. El domingo lo fue por trascender las barreras lingüísticas, cuando la ex candidata republicana a la vicepresidencia de EE UU dio una lección de bilingüismo por medio de una expresión inusitada en quien aspira a pugnar contra Barack Obama por la Casa Blanca: «Ja...

In January, President Obama proposed canceling the troubled moon program known as Constellation, and last week a key Senate committee voted to kill it. This prompted the L.A. Times to speculate that NASA is no longer "shooting for the stars." ...

Two bombings and a drive-by shooting killed 11 people Monday, a reminder of Iraq's ongoing instability as President Obama cited progress amid ...

Obwohl die Gewalt im Irak weiter zunimmt, will US-Präsident Obama eine seiner wichtigsten Zusagen einhalten: "Wie versprochen" werde die US-Kampfmission in wenigen Wochen enden.

The provocative proposal came as Iran dealt with a new wave of international sanctions - driven by Washington - aimed at pressuring the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme. "Toward the end of summer we will hopefully be there for the (UN) General Assembly and I will be ready for one-on-one talks with Mr Obama, in front of the media of course," Mr Ahmadinejad said in an address broadcast...

Number 10 has released its monthly update on website traffic.

Barack Obama has offered to stay away from the campaign trail for the US mid-term elections amid a growing realisation that he may be a liability for the Democrats.

End of $800-billion Iraqi war effort coincides with arrival of last of 30,000 new troops for Afghanistan

In a wide-ranging interview, Playboy's founder talks politics, race, sex and his place in history.

I am taking my summer break. I will be back at work August 12th. I say this in full knowledge that Obama will or will not appoint Elizabeth Warren to run the CFPB while I am away, and missing the chance for outrage or exultation will be painful. But the fall stretch run to the midterms will likely be a busy time, and I must recharge by batteries.

Le président iranien Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a proposé lundi un dialogue en...

Bryan Rimmer becomes one of the first to enjoy Kenya's new 'Obama Tour' - and meets a remarkable number of the great man's relatives

Last September, an assessment of the war in Afghanistan, by the American commander General Stanley McChrystal, was leaked to the press. The timing was not incidental. President Obama was trying to make up his mind about what kind of war he wanted to wage, for how long, and with how . . .

Tradition américaine oblige, Barack Obama a mis en scène sa visite d'une usine de production de Chrysler à Detroit. Le président américain a laissé…

"I will bet on the American worker every day of the week." -- President Barack Obama

President Obama has become a hate figure for some AIDS activists. Médecins Sans Frontières, among others, claim that Obama is personally “denying and delaying AIDS treatment, ignoring evidence on how to defeat the pandemic”. These critics accuse Obama of breaking promises. One activist at the International AIDS Society's conference in Vienna last week said that he had “lied”. Meanwhile, some of...

Direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians could be a political trap for Obama.

US-Präsident Barack Obama schafft sich eine Hausmacht an der Spitze der mächtigen US-Notenbank Fed, die seine Schuldenmacherei und die lockere Geldpolitik nicht in Frage stellen wird.

US President Barack Obama is interested in Australia's election campaign and is keeping tabs on its progress.

Der amerikanischen First Lady Michelle Obama ist gesunde Ernährung sehr wichtig. Jetzt gibt sie Tipps, wie man bewusst kocht

Barack Obama tells SABC that al-Shabaab sees Africa as a place where life is cheap and innocents can be killed for little political cost.

US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron exchanged beers on Saturday to honor their bet over the England-US World Cup soccer match that ended in a draw.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama said overnight that the US economy was "not moving as fast as we want," amid a tepid recovery from the worst economic crisis in a generation.

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The BP spill prompted President Barack Obama to declare a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the US Gulf of Mexico, and producers are attempting to invoke force majeure clauses to cancel co...

Gadget-savvy Barack Obama has surrounded himself with iPad owners, it appears. Joe Biden's got one. Communications/press members Dan Pfeiffer, Ben Finkenbinder and Bill Burton smear fingerprints on theirs. Even Economic adviser Larry Summers shelled out for the pricey device. More » IPad - Apple - President - United States - Joe Biden

Some of you may have already read Mashable's summary of the "10 Web Content Urban Legends" presentation that Ricky Van Veen delivered yesterday. But I got to see the College Humor co-founder do this in person, and I can vouch that it's well worth watching for yourself.

This article originally appeared in RS 1107 from June 24, 2010. On May 27th, more than a month into the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, Barack Obama strode to the podium in the East Room of the White House. For weeks, the administration had been insisting that BP alone ...

I've long been on the record as saying that there are many factions within the tea parties, some far more credible than others. Those of a genuine libertarian bent, those who were as opposed to Bush-era spending as they are now, have some credibility on the subject of government spending. And I think that was a significant part of the core group that began the tea parties a year ago. But what ...

I interviewed most of the presidential candidates about their positions on technology issues in the 2008 election. After those interviews I endorsed one candidate from each party - Barack Obama and John McCain. Neither of them were leading the primaries at the time, but they seemed like the best candidates, solely from a tech policy perspective. I've always believed that government tends to sc...

Facebook has launched a page devoted to U.S. politics, located at Facebook.com/USpolitics.Rolled out at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City, the page monitors how…

Der US-Präsident will aus der Ölkatastrophe am Golf Lehren ziehen: Die Energiebranche soll umweltfreundlicher werden. Und Steuervorteile für Ölmultis stellt er infrage.

Exbeatle Paul McCartney hat im Weißen Haus ein ganz spezielles Lied für die First Lady gesungen: „Michelle“. „I love You, I love you, I love you“, sang er an Michelle Obama gewandt und sagte danach lachend, er könnte nun der „erste Typ sein, der von einem Präsidenten niedergeschlagen wird“. Barack Obama blieb jedoch gelassen. Er wiegte sich im Takt, während seine Frau den Liedtext mitsang. Anla...

THE White House says President Barack Obama is still planning to visit Indonesia and Australia next month despite worries about the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Eiszeit zwischen USA und Israel? Zu dem Militär-Einsatz gegen einen Schiffs-Konvoi Richtung Gaza schweigt Obama. Was wird aus den Friedensplänen?Foto: AP

In one fell line, Maher demoted Obama from American president Obama to black president Obama, complete with gun tucked in waistband.

Obama team 'incensed at being kept in the dark' as company denies existence of underwater oil cloudsBP has challenged widespread scientific claims that vast plumes of oil are spreading underwater from its blown-out rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The denial comes as the oil giant prepares for a new operation to put an end to the worst oil spill in US history – which could see the leak get worse befo...

Les autorités américaines et BP ont averti que du pétrole pourrait continuer à se déverser dans le golfe du Mexique jusqu'en août, alors que la compagnie pétrolière travaillait lundi à une nouvelle opération censée contenir la fuite de brut.Selon Carol Browner, la conseillère du président Obama...

Both the executive and legislative branches of government want to get in on synthetic biology in the wake of Craig Venter's announcement that he's implanted a manmade genome into a bacterial cell.

WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key administration posts: Paul Tiao, Inspector General, Department of Labor Neile L. Miller, Principal Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy Eric Benjaminson, Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic, Department of State J. Thomas Dougherty, Ambassa...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice. Oil spill - United States - Offshore drilling - Gulf Oil - Energy

Die USA ziehen Konsequenzen aus der Umweltkatastrophe im Golf von Mexiko: Präsident Barack Obama will in den kommenden sechs Monaten keine neuen Tiefsee-Ölbohrungen mehr zulassen - auch die Kontrollen auf Bohrinseln sollen verschärft werden.

Acoording to, JB Bernstein who has been acting as sports agent and guardian for the rags to riches duo, the two pitchers, were among the 150 lumaniries, diplomats and celibrities from Asia and the Pacific Islands selected to attend the grand meeting with President Obama at the White House on Monday. 

Die Obama-Regierung zieht die Lehren aus dem BP-Desaster im Golf von Mexiko und verbietet Ölbohrungen in der Arktis. Shell ist entsetzt.

By Chris Baltimore and Tom Bergin HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc launched an ambitious deep sea operation to choke off a gushing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, but President Barack Obama cautioned Americans there was no guarantee it would work. [More] Gulf of Mexico - Barack Obama - BP - Oil well - United States

Real estate titan Sam Zell is next up at the Ira Sohn Conference. His message is no particular stock pick, but rather the dramatic change coming to the US with the election of Barack Obama and what Zell calls “one party leadership” in Washington. “Who’ll survive” in this new world? he [...]

Obama is expected to urge Congress to pass legislation that would create a $30 billion fund to incite banks to extend credit to small businesses.

L'Administration fédérale n'est pas en première ligne dans les opérations de sauvetage. Mais la catastrophe pourrait avoir un prix politique pour le président. » Marée noire : Obama crée une commission d'enquête indépendante » BP verse 500 millions $ pour étudier l'impact de la marée noire

Der Ölkonzern und die US-Regierung kämpfen gegen die Ölpest. Leitartikler werfen der Regierung Ignoranz im Umgang mit der Rohstoffförderung im Golf von Mexiko vor. Sie fordern härteres Durchgreifen von Präsident Obama - und warnen ihn davor, sich zum Handlanger der Multis zu machen.

For President Obama the oil spill is like the recession: not his fault, but his responsibility. The longer it drags on, the angrier voters become with him. The quicker it ends, the quicker the White House can move from damage control to claiming at least some credit for a problem solved.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama sent legislation to Congress on Monday that would allow him to force lawmakers to vote on cutting earmarks and wasteful programs from spending bills....

Lawrence Summers’ plea to Congress to pass up to $200bn in spending measures comes at the same time as the US president asks Capitol Hill to grant him powers to cut ‘unnecessary spending’

Régulation. Le projet de loi du Président, voté par le Sénat, restreint les activités de marché des banques.

(Washington, DC) - President Barack Obama should move swiftly to implement landmark legislation he signed today committing the US to help civilians in central Africa threatened by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a coalition of 49 human rights, humanitarian, and faith-based groups said today. The rebel group has carried out one of the world's longest-running and most brutal insurgencies.read ...

China offers stunning opportunities for U.S. clean energy companies as China seeks sustainable energy sources and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said Saturday. Locke made the remarks in a trip to the northern port city of Tianjin ahead of the Sino-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue early next week. Locke is leading executives of 24 clean energy compa...

Les négociations entre les puissances occidentales et l'Iran sur le dossier nucléaire sont bloquées. L'optimisme né des rencontres du mois d'octobre s'est estompé, laissant craindre une escalade dangereuse. L'élection du président Barack Obama avait pourtant créé un espoir de percée diplomatique. / (...) / États-Unis (affaires extérieures), Iran, Proche-Orient, Armement, Nucléaire militaire - ...

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO -- Call it the new message discipline. Barack Obama - United States - Ohio - President - History

Where is President Obama's foreign policy going?

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed that major financial firms in the United States pay a new fee to help government recover losses on a financial crisis bailout fund. The tax on banks, insurance companies and brokerages with more than 50 billion dollars in assets, would start after June 30 and raise 90 billion dollars over the next 10 years.

NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, held his first meeting with President Obama in the White House on March 25, 2009. They discussed the operation in Afghanistan, a priority for NATO and the United States.

By Michael V. Copeland and Yi-Wyn Yen SAN FRANCISCO - Al Gore didn't take credit for inventing the Internet at the Web 2.0 Summit Friday, but he did credit it with enabling the victory of President-elect Barack Obama and helping restore faith in the principles upon which the United States was founded. "The electrifying redemption [...]

Jascha Franklin-Hodge, cofounder and chief technology officer of Blue State Digital, describes how the company helped create and manage Barack Obama's highly successful online social network.

Kurzsichtige Politik: Nichts gefährdet den jüdischen Nationalstaat so sehr wie die Unfähigkeit, einen Palästinenserstaat zu akzeptieren. Ein Kommentar von Volker Perthes