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What the president said: a selection of quotes from U.S. inaugural speeches

The following is a selection of quotes from US presidents giving their inaugural speeches, from George Washington to Barack Obama. – George Washington (1789) “No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which...

Inauguration 2013: How Obama is different from four years ago

Inauguration 2013: How Obama is different from four years ago (+video) The shadow of President Obama is cast on a wall as he leaves a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington after the Senate Finance Committee voted to...

Controversial drawing of slave having sex with white man displayed at library

A controversial drawing about the horrors of racism and race-based violence — that includes a depiction of an African-American slave performing oral sex on a white man — has been put on display again at a New Jersey library, reported...

Connecticut governor: Definition of assault weapons ‘was lobbied to death’

In a discussion of how Vice President Joe Biden has taken a lead role in the push for gun control, Chris Hayes reminded viewers that the former senator spearheaded the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which included the...

Veterans Affairs spending on erectile dysfunction meds almost triples

The Department of Veterans Affairs is spending almost three times as much it did in 2006 on erectile dysfunction drugs, reported Bloomberg News. That’s apparently due to soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health...

Iraq finds extra billion barrels of oil: ministry

Iraq said on Sunday it has discovered deposits of crude equivalent to one billion barrels of oil after the first exploration work by state-owned firms in almost 30 years. The deposits were found after exploration in Maysan province, in southern...

Barbara Walters hospitalized after hitting her head

The veteran American television reporter Barbara Walters has been hospitalized after falling and hitting her head, her employer ABC News said Sunday. “Barbara Walters fell on a stair (Saturday) evening while visiting the British...

Texas attorney general to New York gun owners: ‘Come to the state of Texas’

NRA news host Cam Edwards interviewed Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot, who a few days ago invited New Yorkers angry with the state’s new gun control law to head down south. Abbot said that while both New York’s Gov. Cuomo and...

Harris-Perry guest: Obama ‘has embraced the framework of the war on terror’

In light of Monday’s inauguration ceremony, Melissa Harris-Perry spent Sunday discussing the past and future of Obama’s presidency. She and fellow MSNBC host Chris Hayes spent one segment debating President Obama’s legacy on...

Israel orders Palestinian protest camp removed

The Israeli army ordered Palestinian demonstrators on Sunday to evacuate a protest encampment in the West Bank consisting of four tents and a building under construction, a military spokesman said. Three of the tents and the building near the...

Scientists find evidence of ancient Martian lake

A US spacecraft orbiting Mars has provided evidence of an ancient crater lake fed by groundwater, adding further support to theories that the Red Planet may once have hosted life, NASA said Sunday. Spectrometer data from NASA’s Mars...

Strauss-Kahn paid hotel maid $1.5 million: report

Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn paid a settlement of $1.5 million (1.1 million euros) to the New York hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, a French newspaper reported Sunday. Citing sources close to Strauss-Kahn, Le...

Fox News host Steve Doocy: Romney’s ‘Lie of the Year’ actually true

Fox News host Steve Doocy claimed on Sunday that a Romney campaign ad that was widely rebuked as misleading was in fact true. The ad claimed that Chrysler planned to make Jeeps in China due to President Barack Obama’s policies, but that...

Scarborough on Republicans winning House majority: ‘It was just gerrymandering’

Conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Sunday warned Republicans that fringe elements were causing the party to shrink and it was “just gerrymandering” that allowed the GOP to keep control of the U.S. House of Representatives in...

Teen arrested in New Mexico after shooting two adults and three children

A young man has been arrested and charged in the murder of five people, including three children, in the southwestern US state of New Mexico, police said Sunday. Police said in a statement they found the bodies of an adult male and female and...
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