John F Kennedy Library

Former US President George HW Bush showed courage in breaking his "read my lips: no new taxes" campaign pledge to broker a 1990 budget compromise that may have cost him re-election two years later, the John F Kennedy Library Foundation said on Sunday.

A law enforcement official says cellphone service has been shut down in the Boston area to prevent any potential remote detonations of explosives.

Boston police said on Monday that an explosion occurred at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston after other blasts in the city near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Had Twitter been an option in 1960, a pregnant Jacqueline Kennedy might well have used it to communicate with voters while largely confined to her Massachusetts home and notably absent from her husband's presidential campaign.Instead, she penned a newspaper column called "Campaign Wife," mixing discussion of policies and issues with personal storie...

Former US President George HW Bush showed courage in breaking his "read my lips: no new taxes" campaign pledge to broker a 1990 budget compromise that may have cost him re-election two years later, the John F Kennedy Library Foundation said on Sunday.

A law enforcement official says cellphone service has been shut down in the Boston area to prevent any potential remote detonations of explosives.

Boston police said on Monday that an explosion occurred at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston after other blasts in the city near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Had Twitter been an option in 1960, a pregnant Jacqueline Kennedy might well have used it to communicate with voters while largely confined to her Massachusetts home and notably absent from her husband's presidential campaign.Instead, she penned a newspaper column called "Campaign Wife," mixing discussion of policies and issues with personal storie...