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John Podesta, who served as former President Bill Clinton's chief of staff for three years, will join President Barack Obama's staff as a counselor, The New York Times reported on Monday.

John Podesta opposed the Keystone XL pipeline as president of the Center for American Progress.

Eureka! Entertainment have announced the release of the first-ever Best Picture Academy Award winner, Wings starring the exquisite early-Hollywood actress Clara Bow and from the director of such golden-era classics as The Public Enemy, Beau Geste , and Track of the Cat , William A. Wellman.

Most Americans can't even find Armenia on a map , much less recite any of its history.

The movie will focus on the childhood of a post-World War I leader and will be directed by actor Brady Corbet, who also co-wrote the script and will be making his feature film directorial debut.

A panel of political strategists and analysts on CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper on Tuesday noted that President Barack Obama is bringing on former White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton , John Podesta , as a counselor amid historically low job approval ratings.

Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that the health care law should be changed if necessary to allow people to keep their health care plans that have been canceled as a result of the implementation of Obamacare.

Remember when Bill Clinton was twice elected President as a "New Democrat" who wanted to get along with people in the private economy? Nowadays even writing in favor of ideas that Mr. Clinton supported can get you branded a heretic and banished from impolite liberal society.

When President Obama and predecessors George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter attended Nelson Mandela's memorial in South Africa on Tuesday, it marked only the second time ever that four U.S. presidents had gathered together on foreign soil.

That is starting to change. Last year black Marines who served during World War II, named Montford Point Marines after the segregated boot camp where they trained, were awarded a Congressional Gold Medal during a moving ceremony.

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Current and former presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George W Bush joined David Cameron, Gordon Brown and 80,000 mourners for the huge event in the FNB Stadium Tens of thousands of mourners poured into Johannesburg's FNB Stadium for a four-hour memorial service to celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela.

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In this March 27, 1998 file photo, Nelson Mandela and former US president Bill Clinton look to the outside from Mandela's Robben Island prison cell in Cape Town, South Africa.

THE call has gone out for help to create a new dive trail for the wreck of an American Civil war blockade runner that sank off Lundy Island.

In this Monday, Aug. 10, 2009, file photo, Center for American Progress Action Fund President & CEO John Podesta speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0, at The Cox Pavillion in Las Vegas.

John D. Podesta, who was chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and is one of the Democratic Party's most experienced strategists, is joining the White House to help President Obama salvage what has become a difficult second term.

The December 10 service at the Johannesburg soccer stadium will feature U.S. political luminaries, including President Barack Obama and former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Workers busily constructed a stage Monday at the Soweto soccer stadium where world leaders will eulogize Nelson Mandela before tens of thousands of mourners, as police promised tight security.

Clinton told Rio de Janeiro daily O Globo in an interview published Monday that "we shouldn't collect economic information under the pretext of security."