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President Barack Obama picked up the tab for a March 6 dinner with 12 Republican senators, winning himself some very cheap publicity for his new legislative strategy of outreach to swing-voting GOP lawmakers. Senators leaving the event were complimentary about Obama’s statements and responses to their views, despite the deep ideological differences over spending, guns, families and immigration. The invited Senators were picked by Obama and by Sen. Lindsey Graham, the high-profile Republican senator from South Carolina.

Sarah Palin, darling of the US Republican right, joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for dinner at his Jerusalem residence on Monday on the second day of a "private visit" to Israel. The meeting, at which the two were accompanied by their spouses, was off-limits to the media, and Netanyahu's office did not immediately publish any statement. A photograph released by the Israeli Government Press Office showed the two couples standing in front of the Israeli and United States flags in the residence. The former Alaska governor arrived on Sunday afternoon with her husband Todd and went straight to Jerusalem's

After spending the earlier part of this rainy, windy day at his Chilmark retreat, President Barack Obama emerged this afternoon to play some basketball at an area school and later to dine out with his wife Michelle and friends. Obama ate at The Sweet Life Cafe in Oak Bluffs, where he and his wife dined during their 2009 Martha's Vineyard family vacation. Dinner companions include his Chicago friends Eric Whitaker and Cheryl Whitaker and White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, according to White House pool reports from media covering the president. A crowd of several dozen people gathered outside the...

'Any organization that has to do with women’s health should never have any connection with the pornography industry'. Planned Parenthood of New York chose the Museum of Sex for the second year in a row as the venue for its annual “Summer, Sex and Spirits” fundraiser. In July, the Planned Parenthood affiliate held a “party/benefit” at the museum, which featured exhibits at the time of the event such as “Sex Life of Robots,” “Sex Machines,” and a photo display documenting the “Oscars of Porn.” The fundraising benefit for Planned Parenthood of New York was arranged by the Planned Parenthood of...