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Reading While Eating for August 9: The Letter “B”
Today’s links honor the letter “B,” featuring books, baking, birds, bears, and more.
Michelle Obama and Ann Romney Battle It Out… In a Cookie Bake-Off
Which is more presidential: Michelle Obama’s white- and dark-chocolate chips or Ann Romney’s M&M’s cookies?
Jason Segel Gets Rejected by Hillary Clinton: Here’s the Proof
The Secretary of State said she wants to help the ‘Five Year Engagement’ actor ‘forget Sarah Marshall …again’.
WATCH: President Obama Outshines Jimmy Kimmel at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Do we laugh at the President because he’s funny — or because he’s the President and we have to?
The TIME 100 Gala: The Sights and Sounds Inside a Celebration of Influence
When TIME’s editors selected the honorees for this year’s TIME 100 issue, they isolated the world’s most influential people into five categories: Breakouts, Pioneers, Moguls, Leaders and Icons. Even within those groupings, the …
TIME 100 Gala to Feature Rihanna Performance, Hillary Clinton Speech
On Wednesday, TIME will release the TIME 100, the magazine’s list honoring the 100 most influential people in the world.
To celebrate the release of the list, five-time Grammy Award winner Rihanna and R&B star Raphael Saadiq will perform at this year’s eighth annual TIME 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24. Secretary of …
Hillary Clinton Parties in Colombia, Continues Streak of Internet Fame
First there was Texts from Hillary. Now photos from Clinton’s fun night out in Colombia pleasantly surprise the Web
The Photograph That Has Everyone Texting Hillary Clinton
From glitter-bombs to meetings inside the White House Situation Room, politicians are prone to becoming Internet memes in this digital age.
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Wednesday Words: Obamacare, ‘Brokeback Iceberg’ and More
NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of our vocabulary includes useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Watch: Prankster Surprises Hillary Clinton on Hawaii Trip
And she couldn’t get enough of it.