President Barack Obama and his family managed to make it through a couple of days of family vacation time without a crisis forcing a change in plans.
The first family was to head home to the White House on Sunday after two days of nearly nonstop recreation at this upscale resort on the northern Maine coast.

Profile America — Sunday, July 18th. On these blistering hot summer days when we walk from the heat into a cool office, business, or home, we can thank a man many of us never heard of — Willis Carrier. Known as the “father of air conditioning,” Carrier patented what he called an “apparatus for treating air” in 1906. His idea has fundamentally changed the way most Americans live, work and play. A good example is the surging population growth in some of the nation’s warmest climates. Air conditioning came into …

An insider’s account of John Edwards‘ affair and the lengths he went to hide his mistress will be developed into a movie, a former aide to the two-time presidential candidate said Thursday.
Andrew Young said that he has reached a deal with writer and producer Aaron Sorkin. He declined to discuss the terms of the agreement, but Sorkin confirmed he had acquired the rights to Young’s book, “The Politician.”