“I used to work for the government. Now I work for the public”
Obama has a variety of different routes to victory on November 6, but Romney’s hopes are next to moribund unless he wins in Ohio.
The BBC is in the middle of a growing scandal involving a television host who was once one of its highest-profile stars.
On the online political battlefield, US president Barack Obama beats his rival for the hands down, write Ed Pilkington & Amanda Michel.
More than half the babies under the age of one are now likely to be Hispanic, black or Asian, writes Ed Pilkington.
A controversial Bill that targets illegal Latinos is setting a precedent for other conservative states in the United States.
Republican candidates and President Barack Obama recognise the importance of Nevada.
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/ 27 September 2011
Pepper spray, Swat teams and judicial torture. This barbarity is ever present — but rarely so visible — in American life.
Relatives of victims of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York are to meet the attorney general to discuss allegations that journalists working for News
The first woman editor of the <i>New York Times</i> tells why she got the job and how she’ll handle the transition to digital.
More than 250 eminent legal scholars have signed a letter protesting against the treatment in military prison of the alleged WikiLeaks source.
Social networking’s much-vaunted challenge to autocracies ‘has been undermined by the West’.
There once was a place where neighbours greeted neighbours in the quiet of summer twilight.
Unscheduled talks seen as a bid to address US concerns.
What gets a Tea Party activist going? A good way of answering that is to browse the stalls at a Tea Party rally.
Rupert Murdoch is planning to test his belief in the transformative power of the iPad to bring news to the younger generation.
Now that the world knows the former singer with the multi-platinum group, the Fugees, turned solo star is running for president of Haiti.
The picture speaks volumes. At the centre of a group of 10 people stands Nelson Mandela and beside him his partner and later wife, Graça Machel.
Fed-up locals take matters into their own hands to tackle oil spill.
A New York extremist group issues a death warning and Comedy Central censors episode 201. <b>Ed Pilkington</b reports.
She’s the most famous businesswoman in the world, so why does the media clam up when it comes to revelations from her past.
Who wants to kill the American president? And how likely are they to succeed?
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/ 8 December 2009
One of the first things that people think about when the name Sigourney Weaver pops into conversation, along with her braininess, is her height.
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/ 3 September 2009
<i>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</i> starts members’ club offering readers extra content, access to journalists and special events.
The King of Pop’s death has brought to light a disturbing trend in the medical profession — addiction to a dangerous anaesthetic drug called propofol
A huge demographic shift threatens to overwhelm nations with economic and social problems, writes Ed Pilkington.
When Steve Jobs rolled out the Apple computer in 1984 he did so, true to form, by commissioning one of the most memorable TV adverts ever created.
Ray Kurzweil has a surrealist’s eye for disorientation. The lobby of his offices outside Boston have the quality of a Dadaist art gallery.
It has gone from upstart to powerhouse and now it wants to branch into news. Is the <i>Huffington Post</i> ready to replace the US newspaper industry.
To a large degree the success of Obama’s presidential run so far has been built on his skills as a speechmaker, writes Ed Pilkington.
Osama bin Laden’s former driver has pleaded not guilty in a case that could determine the future of scores of terrorism cases in the United States.
But for a trick of fate, Chris Rock might have been a truck driver. Instead the Brooklyn boy is the "funniest man alive".