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US President Barack Obama played a round with Tiger Woods on Sunday, crowning a buddies golf trip with his long-awaited first match-up with the 14-time major champion.

President Barack Obama practiced his putting technique with friends in balmy Florida on Saturday under the watchful eye of Butch Harmon, who once coached Tiger Woods.

Once he obsessed over swing states, now he has the luxury of worrying about the state of his own swing.

Europe: 1,662 turbines; United States: 0. After delays that left the American industry years behind other nations, the first wind farm off the US coast should finally produce electricity by 2015.

Mitt Romney criss-crossed his home state of Massachusetts in a major fundraising drive before the Republican convention, netting $7 million after a two-day blitz.

Mitt Romney criss-crossed his home state of Massachusetts on Saturday in a major fundraising drive before the Republican convention, netting $7 million after a two-day blitz.

Forsaking his annual vacation in Martha's Vineyard to campaign for re-election, US President Barack Obama has admitted to a bit of holiday blues as his daughters head off to summer camp.

White House hopeful Mitt Romney is making the most of a family vacation at their lavish New Hampshire lakefront compound, but there is a question he can't seem to jet-ski away from: who will he pick as his running mate?

President Barack Obama will skip his annual trip to the rich man's retreat of Martha's Vineyard this summer, as he wages a pro-middle class election campaign against multi-millionaire Mitt Romney.

(Reuters) - A single-engine airplane flying from Martha's Vineyard to mainland Massachusetts crashed on a Cape Cod beach Sunday killing the two people on board, authorities said.

(Reuters) - A single-engine airplane flying from Martha's Vineyard to mainland Massachusetts crashed in Cape Cod Bay near the shore on Sunday killing the two people on board, authorities said.

Shapes emerged from the tangle of algae, images she captured by arranging the seaweed into line drawings and abstracts of animals and people. She collected and preserved hundreds of seaweed samples, chronicling how one part of the island's natural history evolved.

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Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered across the nation

SHELBURNE FALLS, MA (Reuters) - New England residents struggled on Monday with power outages and widespread flooding as they tried to clean up the mess left by Tropical Storm Irene.

Hurricane Irene may have been a category one storm, but some wondered if hot air from the media and politicians wasn't what really blew off the scale.

CARSON CITY - Following a grueling legislative session, Gov. Brian Sandoval has spent almost half the summer out of state.

US President Barack Obama warned the US east coast was in for a "long 72 hours" as he led his government's response to Hurricane Irene at a disaster command center in Washington.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Not fooled by warm, sunny weather, New Englanders scurried on Friday to prepare for a potentially devastating hurricane on track to pummel the Northeast United States over the weekend.

VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will cut short his vacation and head back to the White House on Friday, before Hurricane Irene hits the U.S. East Coast, the White House said.