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Obama slams politicians for 'utter loss of shame'
Former President Barack Obama gave his first major speech since leaving office on Tuesday, calling today's times "strange and uncertain" and urging people to bring back the values of "equality,...
Columbia student honored for anti-sexual violence work busted for child porn
A Columbia University student, who was once a Nobel Peace Prize nominee for his work to end sexual violence against kids, was arrested in Manhattan on charges of child pornography...
Nobel panel member blasts Trump for separating families
A member of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize committee blasted President Trump for his "zero tolerance" immigration policy, saying he is "no longer the moral leader of his country or...
Poll reveals what voters think about Trump-Kim summit
A majority of American voters think President Trump tamped down the possibility of nuclear war during his summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un but believe by a 66 to...
Norwegian lawmakers nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
President Trump has been nominated by two Norwegian lawmakers for the Nobel Peace Prize following his summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, according to a report Wednesday. Christian Tybring-Gjedde...
Carter: Trump could be worthy of Nobel Peace Prize
Former President Jimmy Carter said Donald Trump would be worthy of consideration for the Nobel Peace Prize if he's able to pull off getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear...
Academy moved 41 years too late on Polanski, Trump’s real Korea mission, and other comments
Culture critic: H’wood 41 Years Too Late on Polanski Ever since pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old in 1977, says The Atlantic’s Megan Garber, Roman Polanski “has existed...
House members formally nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
WASHINGTON-- The effort to win President Trump a new piece of gold kicked off in earnest Wednesday. Eighteen House members sent a letter to the Nobel Committee in Norway to...
South Korean president thinks Trump should win a Nobel Peace Prize
South Korea's leader said President Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program and bring peace to the...
Trump and Kim have a chance to become true heroes
Coral, one of the top British bookmakers, has Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un as favorites — at 2/1 odds — to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year. If their...
Malala Yousafzai returns to Pakistan for 1st time since she was shot
ISLAMABAD — Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has returned to Pakistan for the first time she was shot in 2012 by militants angered at her championing of education for...
Stephen Hawking pondered parallel universes in final paper
Stephen Hawking pushed off this mortal coil last week, but the world-famous physicist was pondering some of humanity’s most puzzling questions right up until the end. Hawking spent decades of...
No, Trump wasn't nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
A Nobel Peace Prize nomination for President Trump was fake news, according to the Norwegian Nobel Institute. An anonymous American reportedly nominated the president for his “ideology of peace through...
Trump is set for re-election and other comments
Dem pollster: Trump on Track to Re-election More than half of Americans think Donald Trump is unfit to be president, but Doug Sosnik at The Washington Post says “he has...
Nobel Peace Prize winner to Trump and Kim: Nukes are illegal
GENEVA -- The head of the Nobel Peace Prize winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong...
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to anti-nuclear weapons group
OSLO, Norway — The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to an organization seeking to eliminate nuclear weapons through an international treaty-based prohibition. The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday announced...
Peace parody: Will Nobel Prize honor demented diplomacy?
What a coincidence. Just as President Trump gets ready to disclose his decision on the Iran nuclear deal, speculation is rife that the Nobel Peace Prize will go to the...
Jailed Nobel Peace laureate is suffering organ failure: hospital
BEIJING — China’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo is suffering from organ failure and shock as his condition deteriorates, the hospital treating him said Wednesday. The hospital published...
Hospital says jailed Nobel Peace laureate is in critical condition
BEIJING — The hospital treating imprisoned Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo said Monday his condition is now critical and doctors are in "active rescue" mode for China's best-known...
China's jailed Nobel Peace laureate granted medical parole
BEIJING — Jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate and dissident Liu Xiaobo has been released on medical parole after being diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer, his lawyer said Monday. Liu was...