BARACK OBAMA

By releasing his birth certificate, President Obama hoped to put an end to the ‘birther’ controversy once and for all and perhaps embarrass ‘birthers’ like Donald Trump. What he did instead was provide more fuel to the fire and further damage his 2012 presidential campaign.

Donald Trump appeared at a rally in Las Vegas where he was treated like royalty and delivered a profanity-laden speech that decried politicians, particularly President Barack Obama.

President Barack Obama - who will tour an area in Alabama devastated by fierce and deadly storms on Friday - signed a major disaster declaration for Alabama on Thursday, a move which authorizes federal funds for the state to deal with the aftermath of deadly storms that have killed 305 people.

The series of tornadoes and thunderstorms that have swept past the southern U.S. state of Alabama and seven others, have claimed at least 311 lives so far and have left the city of Tuscaloosa in ruins, flattening entire city blocks.

More than 1 million customers are without electricity in Southern states on Thursday in the wake of devastating storms with tornadoes which have officially killed 305 people, mostly in Alabama.

The death toll in the South continued to rise to nearly 300 Thursday evening after massive storms with tornadoes ripped through the region a day earlier and first responders continued to search for survivors, with about two-thirds of the victims coming from Alabama.

Tornadoes and thunderstorms, termed catastrophic by U.S. President Barack Obama, that swept across the southern United States the past few days, left a trail of death and destruction - properties worth millions of dollars were damaged, nearly 300 people are dead and hundreds of thousands injured.

Rev. Franklin Graham's comments on President Barack Obama's birth certificate, views on presidential politics and his charge that the Muslim Brotherhood has influence in U.S. State Department and military have come into the spotlight this week.

The Royal Wedding of Prince William & Catherine Middleton will take place tomorrow in April 29, 2011 at 06:00am EDT. There is plenty of anticipation growing over the event, with media coverage increasing on a daily basis. The event could end up being the most watched event in history.

NASA officials are optimistic weather won't play a factor into the Endeavour launch tomorrow.

There is a whole book coming out next month that claims to establish the constitutional ineligibility of Barack Obama for the office of the US presidency.

A trio of tiny satellites and an ancient artifact are among the items that will travel to space with the final mission of the space shuttle Endeavour.

Alabama's state emergency management agency said Thursday that it had confirmed 128 deaths from severe and deadly storms which have included tornados and ravaged Southern states in recent days.

“Never let your opponent define you” is the philosophy of George W. Bush and his campaign staffers. Obama, however, just let Donald Trump define him.

People will be able to submit questions to the Endeavour via YouTube, which will be answered live from space.

“Maybe I’m going to do the tax returns when Obama does his birth certificate. I may tie my tax returns into Obama’s birth certificate,” said Donald Trump last week in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

Sarah Palin on Wednesday called for close media attention and focus on Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke's comments on monetary policy and not the White House's release of President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

The White House has released a copy of President Barack Obama's long form birth certificate, which the President Obtained from the State of Hawaii after persistent requests to see it and legal restrictions of the state from showing it. The following is video of the President's comments on Thursday morning

Businessman and television show host Donald Trump made a statement to reporters at a press conference in New Hampshire ahead of remarks by President Barack Obama on the issue of the President's release of the long-form birth certificate.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, probably the most well known civil rights activist in the U.S., believes the birther issue against President Barack Obama is purely driven by racism and represents part of a wider scaling back of civil rights gains by black Americans.

The following is a transcript of remarks by President Barack Obama on April 27, 2011 as delivered to reporters at the White House on the issue of his birth place, which he called a distraction from more important issues facing the nation. On Thursday, the White House released the long-form birth certificate obtained from State of Hawaii. A certification of live birth, which provided less information, was released in 2008, ahead of the election that year.