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1:10 p.m. (EST): A third letter, this one sent to Senator Joe Manchin (D.-W.V.), has been found to contain ricin. 12:45 p.m. (EST): FBI spokesman Paul Bresson has confirmed that the substance found in the letter to the president was ricin. The Secret Service says that a letter containing a suspicious substance and addressed to President Obama was received on Tuesday at a White House mail facility.

Barack Obama took the oath of office just before noon in Washington on Monday to begin his second term as president of the United States.

A couple of days ago I wrote about some bizarre election predictions and now it's time to check back in on them to see how accurate they are.

The first results of this year’s presidential election have just been released and it seems that the candidates are tied.

Today is the last day in Texas to register to vote. If you do not sign up quick you will be left to everyone else's mercy. There are no excuses to miss out on helping choose your future.

On Tuesday, November 6th voters will head to the polls to vote for their favorite candidate to hold the world's highest office, the presidency of the United States of America and when you wake up on Wednesday, November 7th you might not like the results.  If that's the case then you could be leaving the country for free aboard a JetBlue plane!

Each time we get closer to a presidential election, it seems the political landscape gets weirder and weirder. Now, thanks to comedian Roseanne Bar entering the race, the trend remains consistent.

President Barack Obama finally made good on his 2008 campaign promise to end the war in Iraq. On Wednesday, the president was at Fort Bragg in North Carolina to welcome troops returning home from Iraq for the last time.

US presidents like Barack Obama, who seemed so youthful just a few years ago, appear to age right before our very eyes during their terms in office. This simple observance led Jay Olshansky, PhD, a professor of public health at the University of Illinois–Chicago, to question whether the stress of being Commander-in-Chief can really take years off someone’s life.

Saul Loeb/Mike Sprague, AFP/Getty Images As holidays go, Thanksgiving sure has its share of odd traditions. Live parades with lip-synched musical numbers! Mincemeat pies and Jell-O molds! Grandma Ruthie removing her dentures at the dinner table ...

A late-night announcement made from the White House's East Room on Sunday set the world aflutter, and news of the death of Osama bin Laden quickly spread across the globe. President Barack Obama announced Sunday night that bin Laden had been killed and his body taken into U.S. custody in Pakistan. Word of the death of Al Qaeda's leader quickly spread, and politicians, celebrities and athletes bega

Today is officially known as Washington's birthday, but its been changed over the years and has become known as President's Day.  It originally started back in 1796 in commemoration of George Washington's birthday and then the day was used to for formally observing President Abraham Lincoln's birthday too. Over the years we know there have been some interesting men take over the Oval Office and af