Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on the 27th of August, 1908, in Texas. He became the thirty-sixth President of the United States of America following the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy. In 1964, the electorate officially elected him as president based on the positive social changes he had...
The U.S. and 175 nations have gathered to celebrate Earth Day. This year marks the 21 annual appreciation day for our planet. Many festivities and activities are well underway in communities to clean up and preserve the Earth. People of all ages are banding for large and scale celebrations geared...
Senator Ted Kennedy died of brain cancer Tuesday night at his Cape Cod, Mass., home. He was 77. “An important chapter in our history has come to an end,” President Barack Obama said in a written statement. “Our country has lost a great leader, who picked up the torch of his fallen brothers and...
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born on 26 October 1947. She is the wife of former United States of America Bill Clinton and one of the most prominent women in American politics. She grew up in Illinois as the eldest and only daughter of middle class, conservative Methodist parents with two younger...
The U.S. Homeland Security Department has launched a massive online investigation into many popular websites and seized several domain names for "facilitating copyright infringement." Homeland Security and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have shut down many popular websites...
Congress threats are increasing dramatically and aggressively since Obama's health care reform bill came into focus. Many Democratic congressional members have received menacing phone messages, obscene fax transmissions, broken windows shattered by bricks thrown at offices in New York, Arizona,...
Earth Day 2010 is 40th anniversary of the April 22 event started by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970. Nelson began the tradition, founded to increase environmental awareness and promote federal legislation to resolve ecological crises after visiting a college "teach in." Nelson visited...
Postmaster General John E. Potter has told a U.S. senate subcommittee that he is in favor of cutting back mail delivery in the country by one full day. Under federal law, the post office must deliver the mail to every address in the country, six days a week. The current recession that has gripped...
David Souter plans to retire this June, which gives Obama his first chance to appoint a new US supreme court justice. Souter was appointed by Bush Sr in 1990, but often disappointed Republicans with voting liberal. There is currently an even split of conservative and liberal justices with just...
Jimmy Carter, whose full name is James Earl Carter, was the 39th president of the United States of America. Carter, who was born on October 1, 1924, run under the Democratic platform of racial equality and ecology. In 1946, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland....
