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Williams says he knew nothing about affairs, is mad about media reaction. WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Tiger Woods’ caddie said he knew nothing about the golfer’s extramarital affairs and was angry with him over the scandal. Steve Williams told TV3’s “60 Minutes” program Wednesday that he also is bitter at the reaction toward him from the media and members of the public. “It’s been the most difficult time of my life, no two ways about it, because every single person believed that I should know or did know or had something to do with it,” Williams said. “I knew nothing,...

The most awesome thing I have ever seen on the net. The Vatican virtual tours. Once you get the hang of it, you can easily spend hours on this site. This is simply beautiful...awesome. For those who have been fortunate enough to have visited the Vatican it is a chance to relive memories...for those whose journey is yet to be, enjoy.

MARANA, Ariz. – Tiger Woods isn’t playing the WGC-Accenture Match Play, a tournament he has won three times, but his presence is being felt here. Like a dark cloud in Arizona sunlight. In mid-December, Accenture dropped Woods as a commercial spokesman. Wednesday, the Woods camp dropped this little diversionary bombshell on the first day of Accenture’s PGA Tour event: Woods will be seen and heard Friday for the first time since his sex scandal began unfolding at Thanksgiving and led to his indefinite leave from golf. Woods will appear in an ultra-controlled setting, in line with his modus operandi of...

Here is video of a news interview that golfing legend Tom Watson did where he was asked to comment on Tiger Woods and the controversy swirling around him. Watson is asked about Woods, and said he thinks he will "probably be back sometime this year after he gets his personal life in order." Watson offered some frank and mature advice to Tiger Woods about his on and off the course behavior: It's bad for our game. It's something he needs to get control of and a handle on and make some amends and show some humility to the public when...

Here is the first available clip from the "Bold Fresh Tour" being conducted by Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck. They are touring together and appearing on-stage before audiences in several cities. This brief clip was from their kickoff appearance together on Long Island, New York. . . . (VIDEO)

NAWA, Afghanistan, Dec. 17, 2009 – The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff visited Patrol Base Jaker here today to tour the base and the Nawa district center and spend time with Marines and sailors assigned here. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks to Marines and sailors with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, during a visit to Patrol Base Jaker in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, Dec. 17, 2009. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Brian Tuthill  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen accompanied Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Lawrence D....

Trying to counter perceptions that the trip failed to bring about solid results, advisor David Axelrod says, 'Things don't change overnight.' Reporting from Seoul - Even before President Obama boarded his home-bound flight for Washington, capping a grueling weeklong Asian tour, the White House was scrambling to combat perceptions that the trip failed to produce concrete results. Compared to Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, the U.S. is putting its alliances "on a firmer footing" and has "reasserted our leadership in the region," the White House said in a statement released to reporters hours before the president's flight home.

President Barack Obama will leave the country for a four-nation tour of Asia starting Wednesday despite a host of domestic concerns, including the massacre at Fort Hood, a sharply rising jobless rate, his health care legislation stalled in the Senate and his Afghanistan troop decision still pending. He planned his Nov. 11-19 trip around the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Singapore, but added stops in Japan, China and South Korea. The itinerary reflects the growing importance of East Asia — especially China — to everything from financing U.S. debt and powering the global economic recovery to climate change, disease...

GRAND RAPIDS-- Sarah Palin will be coming to the Woodland Mall Barnes & Noble store in Grand Rapids Nov. 18, her first stop on a tour promoting her book "Going Rogue." The Associated Press reports Palin's tour will begin the day after the book is released and two days after she is interviewed by Oprah Winfrey. A local Barnes & Noble spokesperson confirmed Palin will be at the Woodland store at 3670 28th St SE. Palin, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate, will make appearances around the country. HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said Wednesday that the tour will...

The 10th Mountain Division has been to Afghanistan four times since 2001 and twice to Iraq. It is common to meet senior NCOs and captains with three combat tours behind them, an experience unmatched by any generation of US soldiers since Vietnam. But that experience comes at a cost. British soldiers do six-month tours with 18 months off. America’s overstretched soldiers have been doing 12-month tours — and, in the case of 10th Mountain, a 15-month extended tour in 2006-07 — followed by nine months off. When soldiers talk about soaring rates of family breakdown, suicide and PTSD, there is...

Here's a quick video of a tour at the National Museum of American History. The guide talks about the influence of television during the Vietnam war. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7v30EujEnQ

North Carolina Bus Tour To Focus on Putting Patients First in Health Care DebateTour Will Encourage Citizens to Support Free Market Health Care Solutions Tour Begins Sunday in Raleigh, Continues All Week Bus to meet activists in cities and towns all over North Carolina as Patients First tour urges constituent action against a government takeover of health care As members of the North Carolina Congressional Delegation travel to their home districts over the legislative recess to hear from their constituents, Americans for Prosperity’s Patients First Bus Tour will hit the road, too. The tour will urge grassroots activists to speak...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Hip-hop outfit the Beastie Boys have delayed their upcoming tour and album release after founding member Adam Yauch was diagnosed with cancer, the band said Monday. In a video message posted on the band's website, Yauch, better known by his stage name MCA, told fans he was to undergo an operation next week after being diagnosed with cancer in a salivary gland. The 44-year-old musician, who appeared alongside fellow member Adam Horowitz, said in the statement he had noticed a "little lump" in his throat around two months ago which he recently reported to his doctor....

Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin is expected to travel widely, campaigning for Republican candidates after startling America by suddenly quitting her job. One of America's most unconventional politicians, she left the country reeling on Friday evening by declaring that she is resigning her office this month and deriding the "superficial political blood sport." Almost a year after bursting on to the national scene as John McCain's presidential running mate, Mrs Palin, 45, has now made an unpredictable leap into the unknown. Speculation is at fever pitch that she will seek her party's nomination for the 2012 presidential race. Mrs Palin offered...

Today is day one! Armstrong riding. Astana is back! Predictions? Other comments? Does someone have the ping list from last year?

(IsraelNN.com) US President Barack Hussein Obama will tour the German slave labor camp Buchenwald with German Chancellor Angela Merkel later this week, as part of a world outreach tour which will focus on building ties with the Arab world. Merkel, who grew up in communist East Germany and made an official visit to Israel in 2007, will accompany the US's left-leaning president through the camp, in which over 56,000 Jews and other prisoners were murdered prior to liberation in 1945. Famed Jewish writer and Buchenwald survivor Elie Wiesel will also accompany the dignitaries.

The radical populus/socialist element in the US seized the opportunity to not "let a crisis go to waste" by opting to harass and demonize fellow US citizens Saturday - AIG families (including those who had already returned their legal bonuses)... So they loaded up a busload of ACORN activists and members of the socialist ACORN/New Party derivative, Working Family Party to tour private residences in protest, and posture for the press. Their agenda was plainly stated by 24 year old musician/activist, Asaad Jackson, then piled on by the Connecticut chapter of the WFP, Jon Green (organizers of the harassment tour)....

Countdown to MAF Heroes’ tour!!!! Tomorrow is the BIG day as we kickstart our nationwide tour that will culminate in a huge surprise for our troops! We at Move America Foward are proud of this year’s venture and we invite all of you to come out and support our troops in our Honoring Heroes at the Holidays II tour. OUr aim is to ship more packages than MAF has ever shipped to our troops over the holidays. Saturday at 9:00 AM sharp we will participate in Sacramento, California’s Vietnam Memorial/Parade. You can find us at 216 O St., Sacramento, Calif.We...

Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer Posted : Monday Sep 8, 2008 6:15:06 EDT The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys. Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home. Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under...

Barack Obama may have quelled a self-described political "firestorm" by quitting Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial "black liberation" church, but the bombastic pastor is preparing to set off a bomb in the homestretch of the Democratic candidate's campaign.