President Barack Obama said Friday that he was humbled by the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
“I am both surprised and deeply humbled,” Obama said at the White House.
“I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments. But rather as an affirmation of American [...]
Saturday Night Live” was formed in the crucible of the mid-1970s, when Watergate brought respect for politicians to all-time lows, the counterculture was taking over comedy, and many television viewers were seeking out something fresh and bold.
It was a powerful combination — and after 34 years, the combination of “SNL” and politics can still strike [...]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad The big winner out of this week’s Summit of the Americas in Trinidad may be a decades-old book about the exploitation of Latin American people throughout history.
Eduardo Galeano’s history book enjoyed a 466,378-percent increase in popularity on Amazon.com.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose anti-U.S. rhetoric has included calling former President George W. [...]
Former President George W. Bush is writing a book focusing on defining decisions he’s made in his personal and political life, a publishing house announced Thursday.
Former President George W. Bush will discuss some of the defining decisions of his presidency in a new book.
The book, tentatively titled “Decision Points,” is to be published in [...]
