• The Washington Post reported that the White House has said an agreement must be made by July 22 to leave enough time to approve the legislation to lift the debt ceiling.

    FORBES: FOCUS: Gold Could Rally If U.S. Debt Ceiling Talks Falter

  • The bill was introduced by Rep. John Carter, R-Texas, who represents the district that includes Fort Hood Army Post in the House of Representatives.

    CNN: Purple Hearts proposed for Fort Hood victims

  • But the author of the Business Insider post, Nicholas Carlson, rightly asserts in the very post upon which this house of cards is built that while a Facebook IPO is clearly getting nearer, it is doubtful it will come as soon as rumor mill suggests.

    FORBES: Facebook IPO Before Christmas? Uh, I Don't Think So

  • Still, with ex-presidents able to command eye-popping sums for books, speaking engagements and the like in their post-White House years, the report raises questions about whether the U.S. should provide such generous subsidies at a time when spending cuts and the deficit are forcing lawmakers and federal agencies to seek ways to cut back.

    WSJ: Taxpayer shell out nearly $3.7M for ex-presidents

  • On Wednesday Mr Brown set out some of his intentions for constitutional reform - which included looking at whether Britain should change the first-past-the-post electoral system and reforming the House of Lords - both of which would be unlikely to change before next election.

    BBC: Brown holds 'next steps' meeting

  • Prior to taking the labor post, Herman had headed the White House's public liaison office between 1994 and 1996.

    CNN: Herman Focus Of Influence-Peddling Probe

  • The Associated Press has said its Twitter account has been hacked, after the posting of a bogus post about explosions at the White House.

    BBC: AP Twitter account hacked in fake 'White House blasts' post

  • However Hillary never demurred in her praise for what her husband has accomplished, both during his eight years in the White House or post-presidency.

    CNN: Analysis: Bill Clinton as a diplomatic fix-it man

  • Not long after she left her post at the White House for a new job at the State Department, a devastating 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti.

    FORBES: Twitter's Missionary Abroad

  • After almost deleting the original email from Gabe Newell, Yanis Varoufakis accepted the post as in-house economist for gaming software powerhouse Valve Corporation.

    FORBES: Virtual World Needs Laissez-faire Economists

  • For example, in a January post on the White House blog, Norm Eisen, the special counsel to the president on ethics and government reform, noted that the James Taylor and Louis Farrakhan that appeared the records aren't the famous people with those names.

    FORBES

  • Australia, which has a lower house elected on the basis of first-past-the-post in which the prime minister sits, and an upper house elected on a proportional system, is a good parallel.

    ECONOMIST: Reforming the House of Lords

  • As it happens, the man who helped me originally edit my movie at a Boston post-production house in the late 1980s, George Mauro, worked at Pixar.

    FORBES: Steve Jobs and QuickTime

  • Chan directed with such flair and humor that the post-Wong art-house renaissance can be officially declared under way.

    CNN: OT ONLY DID HONG

  • Does the White House believe the Post is inaccurate?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • During the closure island-wide collections will be brought forward to 13:00 GMT, with the last Envoy House and Smith Street Post Office collections at 15:00 to ensure mail connects with the UK mail boat.

    BBC: Guernsey Post helicopter at Guernsey Airport

  • Funding for ex-presidents under the Former Presidents Act dates back to 1958, when Congress created the program largely in response to President Harry Truman's post-White House financial woes, the Congressional Research Service said.

    WSJ: Gov't spent nearly $3.7M on ex-presidents in 2012

  • On top of his indictment and the Abramoff connection, he was reprimanded three times by the House Ethics Committee for misusing his post when he was majority leader.

    ECONOMIST: Republican woes

  • He could confine himself to being the speaker of the House of Lords, but that is a post devoid of interest or power.

    ECONOMIST: Abolish the Lord Chancellor

  • He says the air around his old New Orleans house still carries the stench left by post-hurricane floods.

    NPR: Delays Plague Distribution of Trailers to Rita Homeless

  • Although infrastructure expenses will be paid directly by the federal government (rebuilding or strengthening levees, for instance, is the job of the Army Corps of Engineers), the White House is already giving hints that it wants the post-Katrina assistance to showcase its preferred kind of government: more focus on tax incentives and vouchers than big federal hand-outs.

    ECONOMIST: Hurricane Katrina

  • Funding for ex-presidents dates back to 1958, when Congress created the Former Presidents Act largely in response to President Harry Truman's post-White House financial woes, the Congressional Research Service said.

    WSJ: Taxpayer shell out nearly $3.7M for ex-presidents

  • When she died, the Last Post was sounded at Government House in Adelaide, and she was given a state funeral.

    ECONOMIST: Roma Mitchell

  • "It's staggering how many people we see switching to Final Cut Pro, " says David Tecson , president of the TV and film post-production house EdgeWorx .

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Bush won the White House after an unprecedented post-election battle in Florida, where he and rival Al Gore clashed over the count of thousands of disputed presidential ballots.

    CNN: Bush describes 'cordial' visit with Democrats

  • Arriving in the post at the collector's house guarantees authenticity.

    BBC: The extreme stamp collecting of first day covers

  • Mr. Ulibarri's house was once the post office.

    WSJ: A One-Horse Town Down to Two People

  • Detectives investigating the deaths of three young children found at a house in Suffolk are awaiting the results of post-mortem examinations.

    BBC: Lowestoft Road South

  • The post-war slum clearance programmes and the government inspired boom in council house building provided new homes to rent for millions of families.

    BBC: More private than social tenants in England

  • For many years the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for most of the post-war period, did not have any women in the lower house.

    ECONOMIST: Mumeo Oku

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