Radio show host Rush Limbaugh is refusing to apologise after claiming President Obama only attended the return of servicemen killed in Afghanistan as a "photo-op"... more
A plague on all their houses, cry the voters, contemplating the wreckage of MPs' dignity as the wretches scrabble to atone for their pool-cleaning, manure-purchasing, creative-accounting ways... more
The Labour party's traditional "command and control" structure could be torn up and replaced with a grass roots movement based on Barack Obama's presidential campaign... more
President Obama is preparing to unveil his first budget this week as he seeks to put the American economy back on track with a $787million stimulus package... more
Economics: President Obama has begun dampening expectations for his $787 billion stimulus package with aides warning not to expect instant miracles... more
Poised and unflappable, Barack Obama has fast-tracked from also-ran to America’s top job in just seven years. Andrew Gilligan asks: how did he do it?... more
Michelle Obama boarded the presidential train in Philadelphia at the weekend as a political wife and mother - and arrives in Washington as the new First Lady... more
Media analysis: Sam Zell is hugely wealthy. Yet it proved beyond his fiscal talents to save US media conglomerate the Tribune Company from financial collapse... more
The story I'd been hearing for some time has finally come out in the open: Hillary Clinton, Bill, and many of her major financial supporters, known as "bundlers", are so livid at what they see as underhanded play by the Obama team that they intend to eviscerate what ought to be Obama's coronation at the Democratic Party Convention in Denver this week... more
Radiohead, Estelle, Last Shadow Puppets and Adele were today all nominated for this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize. Also up for the gong are Elbow, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and Neon Neon.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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