The Time Magazine competition included the likes of President Barack Obama, the Dali Lama, Vladaimir Putin, however it is Christopher Poole (aka Moot), founder of web forum 4chan, who has been named the most influential person in the world.
The vote for the most influential person in the world was made available to anyone and according to The [...]

White House advisers pledged on Sunday to book administration officials on Fox News despite claims by the president’s inner circle that the cable network is a GOP mouthpiece whose programming “is geared toward making money.”
Last week, White House communications director Anita Dunn said Fox News operates “almost as either the research arm or the communications [...]

Presedintele american Barack Obama a fost distins, vineri, cu Premiul Nobel pentru Pace.
Motivatia Comitetului Nobel: “pentru eforturile extraordinare in vederea consolidarii diplomatiei internationale si a cooperarii intre popoare”, dar si pentru “eforturile depuse in redemararea negocierilor de pace in Orientul Mijlociu si cererile de reducere a arsenalului de arme nucleare”.
Comitetul Nobel a avut de ales, [...]

President Barack Obama plans changes to tax policy certain to be unpopular with corporations with international divisions and individuals who use tax havens.
Obama’s two-part plan, which he is slated to unveil at the White House on Monday, also calls for 800 new federal tax agents to enforce the system.
The president’s proposal would eliminate some tax [...]

Fox became the first broadcast network to turn down a request by President Barack Obama for time, opting to show its drama “Lie to Me” on Wednesday instead of the president’s prime-time news conference.
Fox will direct viewers interested in the news conference to Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network, which will both carry [...]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to assure Iraqis on Saturday that the Obama administration would not abandon their country even as it presses ahead with plans to withdraw American troops amid a recent surge in violence.
Clinton said the drawdown would be handled in a “responsible and careful way” and would not affect [...]

President Barack Obama said Thursday his administration is determined to get a credit-card law that eliminates tricky fine print, sudden rate increases and late fees that give millions of consumers headaches.
“I trust that those in the industry who want to act responsibly will engage with us in a constructive fashion, and that we’re going to [...]

Days after releasing top-secret memos that detailed the CIA’s use of simulated drowning while interrogating terror suspects, President Barack Obama went to the spy agency’s Virginia headquarters on Monday to defend his decision and bolster the morale of its emploees.
“I acted primarily because of the exceptional circumstances that surrounded these memos, particularly the fact that [...]

President Barack Obama’s fellow Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday proposed slimming down his fiscal 2010 budget to $3.45 trillion from $3.55 trillion amid bipartisan concerns about it exploding the deficit.
The House Budget Committee Democrats’ proposal includes instructions aimed at overhauling healthcare and making changes to education which would give them privileged [...]

Racing to reverse the country’s economic spiral, President Barack Obama signed the mammoth stimulus package into law Tuesday and readied a new $50 billion foreclosure rescue for legions of Americans who are in danger of losing their homes.
There was no recovery yet for beleaguered automakers, who were back in Washington for more bailout billions.
General Motors [...]