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Fox News host Bill O’Reilly told PJ Media that the American public should give President Obama a break, adding that “nitpicking the president” does not do the country any good. “President Obama’s got three years left in office. I think he’s going to try to make Obamacare work, that’s his legacy. I think he’ll devote most of his time to that but you’ve got to give the guy a break. He’s under tremendous pressure every day with some new crazy thing in this world,” O’Reilly said at the world premiere of Killing Kennedy in Washington on Monday night. …

A German neo-Nazi publisher was yesterday sentenced to five years in prison for inciting racial hatred and denying that the Nazis murdered six million Jews. Ernst Zündel, who was extradited from Canada to face trial in Germany in 2005, received the maximum sentence available for the crime of Holocaust denial after being found guilty on 14 counts ... "You might as well argue that the sun rises in the west, but you cannot change that the Holocaust has been proven," he said, referring to Zündel's work Did Six Million Really Die? The prosecution accused him of using "pseudo-scientific methods" in...

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A German court on Monday ordered the release of Brigitte Mohnhaupt, a former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) who has spent 24 years in prison for her involvement in multiple kidnappings and murders in the 1970s. The decision, which came after a request by Mohnhaupt for early release, is likely to cause a storm in the country, notably because she has expressed no remorse for a murderous RAF campaign which shook West Germany's new democracy to its core. The ruling comes as President Horst Koehler considers a pardon for Mohnhaupt's former RAF colleague Christian...

Car swallowed by hedge Police in Germany had to help a driver find his car after it was swallowed by a hedge. The man, who is 55, told police he had left his Mercedes parked near a filling station in Essen and had gone to buy cigarettes. When he returned, the £35,000 automatic car was gone. He suspected it had been stolen, but police decided it was worth searching the area. They eventually found the car a short distance away, in a thick hedge. It's believed the car rolled down a stretch of road through a hedge, smashed down a...