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US President Barack Obama skewered allies and rivals alike in a Saturday-night comedy act spiced up with a healthy dash of self-deprecation.
 
Obama appeared before a ballroom packed with journalists, media types and celebrities for his penultimate White House Correspondents' dinner before finishing his second term next year.

Republican and Democratic U.S. senators called on President Barack Obama on April 21 to create and enforce humanitarian safe zones in Syria, amid international concerns about the dire conditions faced by millions of people displaced by the war.

After Turkish Foreign Minister announced that President Barack Obama "accepted in principle" to join President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in a trip to Maryland to open a mosque, a White House spokesperson has said there were "no presidential visits or travel to announce" at the moment.

It was Benjamin Franklin who (sort of) came up with the idea of daylight saving time (DST) in a whimsical anonymous essay to the Journal of Paris in 1784. He calculated the amount of wax and tallow that could be saved if Parisians woke before sunset instead of at noon. He did not suggest adjusting clocks, but he did have ?ingenious?

US President Barack Obama spoke with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on the sidelines of an event at the White House honoring Greece's Independence Day with the former stressing the need for flexibility from all sides in ongoing reform negotiations between Greece and its creditors, according to sources.

A Clinton Global Initiative Mediterranean meeting scheduled to be held in Athens in June has been cancelled, it emerged on Thursday. The cancellation came after Hillary Rodham Clinton recently announced she was running for the Democratic nomination for the US presidency in 2016. As a result of her candidacy all of the organization's upcoming meetings will be held in the US.

A Florida man was arrested after he landed his small helicopter on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol on April 15, police said, violating restricted airspace and causing a security scare.
   

The race for the 2016 presidential elections in the U.S. has started, with more than a dozen candidates already expressing their interest in running for their party's presidential nomination.

Hillary Clinton has announced that she will run for president of the United States again.

Launching her second campaign for Democratic candidate for president, the former secretary of state on Sunday announced her candidacy on social media in a campaign video featuring everyday life of US voters such as starting a business or having a baby.

Hillary Clinton was on a campaign road trip deep into the US heartland April 13 after launching her bid to become the first woman to win the White House with a pledge to champion "everyday Americans."