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Smoke bomb thrown into White House

A smoke bomb was hurled inside the White House complex, prompting the Secret Service to deploy a robot to check it out. President Barack Obama and his wife were not at home, media reports said.

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Pakistan rejects Grossman's visit

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US special envoy Marc Grossman's visit to Pakistan for consultation on exploratory talks with Taliban has been put off as Islamabad rejected the move, a State Department official said.

The US had ma

US can't afford Obama as president for 4 more yrs: Haley

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Indian-American South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has said the United States can't afford to have Barack Obama as the president for another four years.

"It's Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Ma

BMW recalls 89,000 Minis: US safety agency

German automaker BMW is recalling nearly 89,000 Mini Coopers, the US traffic safety agency announced on Sunday, citing the threat of a smoldering circuit board that could set the cars on fire.

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Perry defends Marines accused of urinating on corpses

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Texas Governor Rick Perry, scrambling to keep his U.S. presidential bid alive, accused the Obama administration on Sunday of over-reacting to a videotape that shows four Marines appearing to urinate o

'Insourcing' is US President Barack Obama's new mantra

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US President Barack Obama on Saturday said that it is time to focus on 'insourcing' and not on outsourcing, which takes jobs outside the country.

In the coming weeks, Obama said, he would bring in p

Obama team slams Romney's US corporate past

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Barack Obama's campaign has fired off a withering attack on Mitt Romney, branding the US president's likely election foe as a corporate raider who made money 'hand over fist' by destroying jobs.

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US, Pak relationship at its lowest ebb: Musharraf

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Pakistan's former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that the current bilateral relationship between Islamabad and Washington is at its lowest ebb, lower than those post 9/11 attacks on the

Michelle Obama breaks into a dance for school students

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Michelle Obama delighted elementary and middle school children at the Hayfield Secondary School when she performed a ‘random dance’ along with cast members of the Nickelodeon show ‘iCarly’.

She joine

‘Plants alert each other of impending drought’

Alike humans, plants can also alert each other of an impending drought, say scientists who claim to have found that plants communicate among themselves with a sort of signal.

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