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Joe Biden on Friday departed the White House for another Delaware vacation. Biden has spent 40% of his presidency on vacation. To everyone’s surprise Joe Biden actually stopped to chat with reporters posted up on the South Lawn before boarding Marine One. A reporter asked Joe Biden about the House Oversight Committee’s new memo detailing his family’s dealings related to his son Hunter. MyPillow's New Mattress Topper 2.0 - "Saved Me From Having To Buy A Whole New Mattress" The Biden family received $1 million after an associate received $3 million from China. The shocking news was released on Thursday...

Former House Speaker John Boehner said in a preview video of an interview to be broadcast on “CBS Sunday Morning” that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was a political terrorist and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was a “jerk.” Referencing Boehner’s forthcoming memoir, host John Dickerson said, “You call some of these members political terrorists.”

French unemployment rose for the first time above 3.0 million in the second quarter, but in a sign the upward trend is tailing off, the unemployment rate rose by only 0.1 percentage point to 10.5 percent, official data showed on Thursday. … The high level of young people without work (24.6%) is a particular concern for the left-wing government, which is focusing on raising competitiveness and reducing unemployment. … President François Hollande promised in July to reverse the rising trend of unemployment by the end of the year, saying that economic recovery was on the doorstep, but this was ridiculed...

Border Patrol agents arrested a U.S. citizen after intercepting $3 million worth of cocaine at the San Luis Port of Entry near Yuma. During an inspection, a narcotics sniffing dog alerted authorities to something suspicious in the front end of a truck driven by the alleged smuggler. Agents took a closer look and discovered wrapped packages containing 60 pounds worth of cocaine. Border agents arrested the 34-year-old man Wednesday. He faces charges of attempting to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. Authorities did not release the man's name, where he's from or where he was coming from

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2009 – The price appears to be right for former game show host and naval aviator Bob Barker, who donated $3 million to help build a premiere Defense Department center for wounded warriors suffering traumatic brain injuries. The donation brings the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund to its $60 million goal to build the National Intrepid Center of Excellence, Bill White, president of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, announced yesterday. The 72,000-square-foot, two-story facility is expected to open next year next to the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund...

WASHINGTON, March 20, 2007 – After receiving $250,000 in donations last week through a partnership with the Duquesne Home and Garden Show in Pittsburgh, “Homes for Our Troops” founder John Gonsalves didn't think things could get much better. Army Spc. James Fair (right) talks with a vendor at the Duquesne Light Home and Garden show in Pittsburgh last week about windows. Homes For Our Troops, which builds or adapts homes to meet the unique needs of severely wounded servicemembers, and the Duquesne Light Home and Garden show partnered in an effort to raise funding to build Fair, of Coraopolis,...

The search for $180,000 in missing nickels ended in the back yard of a Miami-Dade County house today. A joint task force including the DEA, FBI (news - web sites), Immigration and Customs Enforcement and detectives from the Miami-Dade County Police Department, found the nickels buried in the back yard of a home in an area near Miami known as the Redlands. Law enforcement officials searched the home this morning and found nothing. They searched a smaller house behind the main residence and reportedly found 88 plants believed to be marijuana. When agents went over the back yard with metal...