Boston: US President Barack Obama and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney are among those planning to attend a Boston interfaith healing service organised after the deadly bombing at the city's marathon.
A spokeswoman for Romney confirmed on Wednesday the former Massachusetts governor will be among those attending at the invitation of Democratic Gov Deval Patrick. The White House had previously announced Obama will attend Thursday's service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross with first lady Michelle Obama.
Other state, local and federal officials are expected to attend along with members of the clergy. Monday's bombing killed three people and injured more than 170 others near the race's finish line. A local politician says investigators are hunting for a man seen in a store surveillance video dropping off a bag at the site.
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07:26 AM, Apr 18, 2013
US former vice presidential candidate and ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin launched a scathing attack on President Barack Obama at a Conservative party meet. ...
10:10 AM, Mar 17, 2013
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09:13 AM, Mar 17, 2013
A website in the US has posted crucial personal details of celebrities like Hillary Clinton and Tiger Woods, which include their financial detail, credit card debt and mortgage information. ...
06:05 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The White House is drafting a backup immigration reform plan in case a bipartisan congressional committee working on a bill fails, an Obama Administration official said on Sunday, though a key Republican said the president's plan would be "dead on arrival" on Capitol Hill. ...
12:50 PM, Feb 18, 2013
US President Barack Obama delivered his second State of the Union address on a positive note. While speaking of a resurgent America, he said that it was time to bring more manufacturing jobs to US shores, which got a shout-out from Apple CEO Tim Cooks in the audience. ...
09:10 AM, Feb 13, 2013
The text of US President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, released by the White House as prepared for delivery. ...
08:17 AM, Feb 13, 2013
US President Barack Obama declared the nation is unquestionably stronger on Tuesday night in in his first State of the Union address since winning re-election, though he conceded America's economic revival is an "unfinished task". ...
07:59 AM, Feb 13, 2013
As political experts assess Republican Mitt Romney's failed US presidential bid, an analysis of how his campaign and President Barack Obama's winning team used cable TV to target ads at specific groups of voters may offer some valuable tips for the future. ...
10:40 AM, Jan 06, 2013
The demonisation of the financial industry is not limited to the US. It's a global phenomenon. In the US, the need to bail out the banking industry was a very difficult political decision for Democrats in particular. The entire country was suffering in the recession. ...
04:10 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Celebrities rarely shy away from public peddling of dubious ideas about health and science, and 2012 was no exception. ...
11:06 AM, Dec 28, 2012
London: After becoming the most-watched video ever on YouTube, Korean singer Psy's pop sensation "Gangnam Style" has now booked a place in popular culture with recognition from a renowned British dictionary. "Gangnam Style" has been named among the Collins dictionary's words of the year along with "mummy porn", "fiscal cliff" and "Romneyshambles". Psy's song was the dictionary's word for November - when his horse dance video became YouTube's most popular...
05:17 PM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: Gun control laws in the United States have come under fire after the mass killing on Friday at a Connecticut school, putting renewed pressure on US President Barack Obama and other Democrats to address the easy availability of firearms. Just an hour after Obama tearfully said on national television that the country needs 'meaningful action to prevent more tragedies,' about 200 people rallied outside the White House on...
01:11 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Washington: Campaign finance filings with the government now show that the cost of the 2012 US presidential race has surpassed $2 billion, a new record. The new tallies released on Thursday, which include nearly $86 million in fundraising by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in the election's final weeks, boosted the total campaign haul over the $2 billion mark. The campaign's record-breaking expenditures on media ads were fuelled by eye-popping...
07:42 AM, Dec 07, 2012
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01:34 PM, Nov 12, 2012
St Petersburg, Florida: Four days after the election, President Barack Obama can finally claim victory in Florida. The state finished counting its votes Saturday. Obama was declared the, giving him a 332 to 206 final margin in the Electoral College. Florida officials said Obama had 50 per cent of the vote to Romney's 49.1 per cent, a margin of about 74,000 votes. The win gave Obama victories in eight of...
11:27 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Chicago: On the day after the 2010 midterm election that swept Republicans into control of the House of Representatives and decreased Democrats' majority in the Senate, senior White House adviser David Axelrod had a message for President Barack Obama. "I think they just planted the seeds of your re-election," he told his boss. "The most strident voices had seized control of the Republican Party and you knew that the nominee...
03:30 AM, Nov 09, 2012
The Republicans have offered newly re-elected US President Barack Obama a short-term fix to the so called fiscal cliff, but insisted they would not cave in to tax increases to boost revenues. ...
11:15 AM, Nov 08, 2012
Washington: One day after his surprisingly comfortable re-election, a triumphant President Barack Obama headed back to the White House and divided government on Wednesday with little time left for a compromise with Republicans to avert spending cuts and tax increases that threaten a new recession. The president also is looking ahead to top-level personnel changes in a second term, involving three powerful Cabinet portfolios at a minimum. Republicans headed into...
02:10 AM, Nov 08, 2012
Boston: Mitt Romney spent the past six years running for president. After his loss to President Barack Obama on Tuesday, he'll have to chart a different course. The initial plan is to spend time with his family. Romney has five adult sons and 18 grandchildren; a 19th is on the way. His wife, Ann, recently said her husband absolutely will not run again for president. If he did, it would...
01:30 AM, Nov 08, 2012
