The Obama inaugural Celebration at Lincoln Memorial
Judging by the lineup, Sunday’s inaugural celebration for Barack Obama at the Lincoln Memorial is a coveted gig for music’s top names.
Beyonce, U2, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Usher, Shakira, Sheryl Crow, Josh Groban and James Taylor are among the musicians scheduled to perform Sunday afternoon. The president-elect and his [...]

An appeal claiming Barack Obama is too British to become president of the United States has been rejected by the US Supreme Court.
The lawsuit claimed he should be disqualified because, it claimed, he acquired the same British citizenship that his father had when he was born.
This meant he was not a “natural-born” US citizen, as [...]

If Fidel Castro survives through January, he will not only celebrate the 50th anniversary of his takeover of Cuba, he may also witness the most dramatic shift in U.S. policy toward the nation since it became a dictatorship.
An assortment of liberals, businessmen and farm-state politicians have been pushing for the easing of sanctions against Cuba [...]

The leaders of 14 Caribbean nations have called on US President-elect Barak Obama to lift the decades-old American trade embargo against Cuba.
The call came during a one-day summit between Cuba and the Caribbean regional trade bloc, known as Caricom.
Current Caricom president, Antigua’s Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer, said he hoped the US embargo would finally be [...]

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to give up her Senate seat and accept the position of secretary of state, making her the public face around the world for the administration of the man who beat her for the Democratic presidential nomination, two confidants said Friday.
The apparent accord between perhaps the two [...]

Biography: Barack Hussein Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii.