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President Joe Biden revealed Monday night he has been personally chosen by former President Jimmy Carter to deliver his memorial service eulogy when he dies. “I spent time with Jimmy Carter, and it’s finally caught up with him, but they found a way to keep him going for a lot longer than they anticipated because they found a breakthrough,” Biden told guests at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser, according to a UPI report. “He asked me to do his eulogy,” he added. The president then reportedly appeared to catch himself for sharing the information, saying, “Excuse me, I shouldn’t say...

Vice President Kamala Harris raised concerns Friday that Santa Clause would be unable to deliver on Christmas due to supply chain disruptions. “Families are worried about being able to make sure Santa Claus gets whatever Santa Claus should get to the children by Christmas,” she said.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday on MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports” that the Biden administration has “to deliver this summer” with an infrastructure package passed through Congress. Jackson said, “You have progressives in the words of Politico, losing their minds over President Biden waiting to get some kind of a deal with Republicans. On the other side, you have Senator Joe Manchin making very clear with NBC News this morning. He is not down to go it alone. He wants Republican support. If this June 7th deadline, if you will, comes and goes and Republicans aren’t where Democrats want them...

President Joe Biden’s administration announced Wednesday a new program to deliver free masks to Americans in communities around the country. “While masks are widely available in many different shapes and sizes, many low-income Americans still lack affordable access to this basic protection,” Biden’s Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters during a press briefing.

Turkey will knock on another door if the United States does not allow it to buy Lockheed Martin's F-35 advanced fighter jets, broadcaster NTV quoted Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu as saying. The United States is due to deliver the first of more than 100 F-35 jets to Turkey next month, but a bill making its way through U.S. Congress is aiming to block the sale of the jets. Çavuşoğlu has previously stressed that Turkey would not be deterred by sanctions. Çavuşoğlu also said Turkey's ambassador to Washington, who was recalled for consultations following the attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian...

Princess Madeleine and her husband Christopher O'Neil have decided that their child will be born in the US, the Swedish Royal Court has announced. Madeleine reveals royal baby's gender: report (30 Oct 13) Pregnant Princess to attend Nobel alone (19 Oct 13) Royal baby on the way for Swedish princess (03 Sep 13) "After careful consideration and in consultation with the King and Queen, Princess Madeleine and Mr. Christopher O'Neill have decided that their child will be born in New York," Svante Lindqvist at the Royal Court wrote in a statement. The baby, set to become fifth in line to...

I hope not but unfortunately what I am seeing and hearing in my sliver of America explains the recent presidential polls. There has never before existed in America - a time of greater national ignorance and depravity than in 2012.... (Continued/Vlog)

Washington, DC Saturday, January 21, 2012 Addressing supporters at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, Rick Santorum said, "Three states, Three different winners, what a great country." He also said that this campaign is "painting a bold vision for this country." Santorum also stated that he is moving on to Florida, Colorado and all the upcoming states holding primaries and caucuses. Updated: Saturday at 9:06pm (ET)

The family of the Boston pizza deliveryman who was killed during a dinner drop-off has filed a $15 million negligence and wrongful death lawsuit against Domino’s Pizza and Deutsche Bank. “At the time of Richel Nova’s death, Domino’s had no policies posted in and around the store regarding delivery driver security,” Boston lawyer Howard J. Wayne states in the civil complaint he filed last week in Suffolk Superior Court.

(CNN) - Republican Sen. Jim DeMint said Sunday he wants a jobs plan in writing from President Barack Obama, not just another speech. "I am so tired of his speeches, it's going to be hard for me to watch," DeMint said on CNN's "State of the Union." A written proposal from the president would enable Congress to decipher the cost and the American people and businesses to weigh the plan, said the South Carolina Republican who is a favorite of tea party conservatives. "Without sending something in writing, the president makes all of these grand gestures, and then it doesn't...

Statesmen aren't supposed to make comments like this. But British Prime Minister William Hague has already shown he's not much of a statesman. Mr. Hague said the American intervention was "important because only the United States can really decisively deliver Israel into a peace agreement and give them the necessary assurances". He added: "It means that as [President Obama] comes to the United Kingdom this week, on the Middle East process and the wider subject of the future of North Africa and the Middle East the policies of the UK and US are as closely aligned as they have ever...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy Sunday for the 29 miners who died in a coal mine explosion earlier this month. The service, announced today by West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, will be held in Beckley, W.Va., and will include prayers, musical performances, tributes to the miners, and remarks from Mr. Manchin and other dignitaries. Vice President Joe Biden will join the president to participate in the service, according to a White House news release issued today. The service will be held at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center, at 200 Armory Drive in Beckley, at 3:30 p.m....

·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683   Proposed Legislation Could Ban All Ammunition in Vermont!   Thursday, January 28, 2010   Please Contact Your State Legislators Today!The House Fish, Wildlife & Water Resources Committee  is currently considering legislation (H. 484) which could potentially ban the sale and use of virtually all ammunition in Vermont. The bill would require the Secretary of Natural Resources to set up a program to identify and ban the distribution of certain toxic chemicals.  During questioning before the House committee regarding the potential impact of H. 484, Department of Environmental Conservation Deputy Commissioner Justin Johnson said that it was...

8/31/2009 - BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (AFNS) -- Airmen from the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron dropped eight bundles of humanitarian aid from a C-130 Hercules Aug. 26 to a remote village in northern Afghanistan. The Air National Guard crew, deployed from the 158th Airlift Squadron in Savannah, Ga, performed the mission to support coalition and civilian Afghans. The eight bundles weighed approximately 4.1 tons and were packaged in a container delivery system, which assured the bundles and their cargo of food, water, clothes and blankets arrived intact. Coalition forces waited on the ground to help distribute the humanitarian aid to the...

President Barack Obama will deliver a eulogy at US Senator Edward M. Kennedy's funeral Mass on Saturday, a White House official has told the Globe. Kennedy's funeral will be held at a time yet to be determined Saturday morning at The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the Mission Hill section of Boston. Commonly known as the Mission Church, the 1,450-seat basilica on Tremont Street was built in the 1870s. Kennedy prayed there in 2003 while his daughter, Kara, was being treated for lung cancer.

Small-business owners are warning that the economy would suffer under a health care bill proposed by House Democrats, which would drive tax rates for high-income taxpayers to levels not seen since before President Reagan's tax reform of 1986. The top federal income tax rate, which Mr. Reagan and a bipartisan Congress lowered from 50 percent to 28 percent, would reach 45 percent in 2011 if Congress and President Obama enact the surtaxes that are part of the health care reform plan that House Democrats announced Tuesday.

While Obama will enthusiastically recognize progress, Gibbs said, "I think the president also understands that even as there are some promising statistics, whether it's housing or something like that, we still are likely to see many, many months of unemployment, where hundreds of thousands of people are losing their jobs." Advisers are mindful that Obama must show the public that his policies are actually working -- and establish credibility -- in order for him to guarantee the public's support for his future agenda. He put his fledgling presidency on the line when he advocated sweeping new government intervention and spending...

Iraqi families line up to receive lamb meat from Iraqi Police and members of ‘Women's Hope and Children's Future,’ in Diwaniyah, Iraq, Dec. 9, 2008. Photo by 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs. DIWANIYA — Iraqi Police officers and U.S. forces delivered humanitarian aid packages to needy families here, Dec. 9. Ad-Diwaniya Police officers, along with Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division and ‘Women’s Hope and Children’s Future,’ a non-governmental organization, conducted the operation to provide food and supplies for the Eid al Adha, a holy celebration.More than 60 selected families received bags of meat and supplies, such as blankets and...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2007 – This holiday season, the American Red Cross will make sure holiday greetings generically addressed to wounded servicemembers at military medical facilities around the country will find a home. With help from Pitney Bowes Government Solutions, and the support of the Defense Department and Walter Reed Army Medical Center here, the American Red Cross will collect, review and distribute holiday greeting cards to wounded military personnel. “So many Americans want to show their support and gratitude by reaching out to wounded servicemembers at Walter Reed and other military medical centers during the holiday season,” said...

KABUL, Afghanistan, July 18, 2007 – NATO countries have still not manned the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan to promised levels, the commander of the force said here today. U.S. Army Gen. Dan K. McNeill said he does not have promised critical capabilities. “NATO has not manned this force to the level it said it would man it,” he said. The general said the command is short on “helicopters, maneuver troops, aeromedical evacuation, some medical, and some intelligence apparatus.” When NATO assumed control of security operations in Afghanistan, the United States provided a “bridging force” with these assets until...