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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry said on Friday that he will consider running for president.

Republicans continue to push foolish budget plan that would end Medicare. Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich ran into trouble with his colleagues recently after he disparaged the GOP plan to gut Medicare and take away the guarantee of medical insurance for seniors.Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" this month, the Republican candidate for president said the plan, pushed by House GOP budget chief Rep. Paul Ryan, was "too big a jump."

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry said on Thursday that he tries not to get distracted by speculation about whether he will run for president.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Despite the best efforts of right-wing pundits and contradicting earlier reports, controversial rapper Common went through with his White House appearance at Michelle Obama's poetry event Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - While Hollywood scrambles to figure out ways to exploit the death of Osama bin Laden on screen, the first movie that could actually benefit from the news is likely to be the final Harry Potter movie, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," which comes out on July 15.

President Barack Obama released his detailed birth certificate and warned that politics was not a reality show as he slammed lingering claims he was not born in the United States.

In a surreal moment in US political history, President Barack Obama Wednesday released his birth certificate and slammed rumors that he was not American born as distracting "silliness."

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A rural Missouri county was evacuating residents on Wednesday from a 130,000-acre area that will be flooded if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decides to blow up a Mississippi River levee.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, German chancellor Angela Merkel and pop music heartthrob Justin Bieber are among the 100 "most influential people in the world," Time magazine announced Thursday.

Arizona is set to become the first US state to force presidential hopefuls to prove their citizenship, after deputies agreed the move highlighted by questions over Barack Obama's birthplace.

If Obama is so far left, why are liberals so unhappy?. If Obama is so far left, why are liberals so unhappy?

Right-wing US radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his show Wednesday that the media is overplaying the nuclear crisis in Japan after last week's 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami.

Two prominent Republicans came to the defense of First Lady Michelle Obama, breaking ranks with some of their party's top stars who have taken jabs at her campaign against obesity.

Smart phones changing the digital landscape. Abundant Apps Accelerate Android's Assault on Apple By Jim Bray TechnoFile.com The Smartphone may be one of the greatest adaptations of computer technology known to Mankind so far for the way it ? and the media to which it's attached wirelessly ? is putting the world in the palms of our hands. Most familiar through Apple's iPhone, and now the iPad ? though the latter is more a tool than a phone while the former is a like the Swiss Army Knife of telephony ? smart phones are becoming necessary tools for today's busy and connected citizen. It's a movement that I, who could never be accused of being a Luddite, didn't appreciate until it came into my life via osmosis: my son had an original iPhone and when he let me play with it I was intrigued, then enamored. What a marvelous device! I finally took the plunge and actually paid $50 for a Samsung Galaxy Vibrant on a three year voice/data plan last fall. Why the Galaxy and Android? Easy. I got a be

Singer Sir Elton John says he believes conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh supports gay unions. Singer Sir Elton John says he believes conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh supports gay unions. Sir Elton was widely criticized for accepting a reported $1 million for performing at Limbaugh's fourth wedding. He entertained Limbaugh's more than 400 wedding guests into the wee hours. The 63-year-old Sir Elton entered a UK civil partnership with filmmaker David Furnish in 2005. The couple welcomed a baby boy on Christmas Day. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Sir Elton said he believes Limbaugh is not anti-gay and supports gay unions. ?I could not believe when I was asked to play,? he said. ?I thought it was a joke. I had dialogue with him before and he said, 'I'm not anti-gay, I want you to come, bring David.' My goal is for Rush to say, 'I support civil partnerships,' and if I rang him right now, I think he might agree. He was one of the first people to congratulate us on the baby.?

Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host heard by millions of Americans, came under fire from Asian Americans after he mocked the way visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao speaks.

When Joy Behar speaks of the swimsuit competition in the Miss America Pageant, she winces a little. It is likely an involuntary response, as Behar is one of the pageant judges for tonight's show at Planet Hollywood's Theatre for the Performing Arts.

DALLAS (Reuters) - Calls to reset the tone of politics in the aftermath of Saturday's shooting rampage in Arizona got short shrift on talk radio and elsewhere as left and right traded blame for the massacre.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a town where politics never rests, the shooting of U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords quickly opened a sharp divide on the role of inflamed rhetoric in the assault and on the proper response to its growth.

Singer Sir Elton John, who, along with his partner David Furnish, became a father on Christmas, says being a parent is a wish granted. Singer Sir Elton John, who, along with his partner David Furnish, became a father on Christmas, says being a parent is a wish granted. Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born in California on December 25 via a surrogate. He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and measured 22 inches long. Sir Elton told Us magazine that the birth of his son fulfills the couple's longtime dream of being parents. ?For many years we have talked about fulfilling one of our greatest wishes by becoming parents,? Sir Elton said. ?And now this wish has been granted to us, we feel so blessed and lucky.? The couple attempted to adopt two Ukrainian boys ? Lev and his HIV-positive brother Artyom ? last year, but authorities in the Ukraine didn't approve. At the time, Sir Elton told reporters that the boys had stolen his heart. Sir Elton, 63, and Furnish, a 48-year-old filmmaker, entered