A few minutes after the tweet was sent, Twitter suspended the account. The AP said via an additional Twitter account that its official Twitter account had been suspended following a hack and said it was working to correct the issue.

But for that split second, the stock market reacted to the tweet and dropped over 100 points.

Steve Sheldon writes at Clashdaily.com: The recently released photograph of President Obama reportedly “Taken at Camp David – the Maryland presidential retreat – on August 4, 2012, his 51st birthday,” is a complete fake.

As a lifelong shotgunner I immediately smelled a rat.  Nothing in the photo looks right and upon closer examination, it is a complete fraud.

One need go no further than examining the ports on the shotgun.  Ports are tiny holes sometimes drilled near the muzzle (the business end of the gun) to release energy and reduce recoil.  They serve as a pressure release valve of sorts.  One will immediately notice that there is smoke coming from the right side of the gun in the photo as well as out the front.  The only problem is that there is no smoke coming from the ports on the left side of the gun, clearly seen in the photo suggesting that the smoke was doctored into the photo. Read more »

JTA Reports: The book, which the two men will resume writing after Tuesday’s presidential  election, is “a book of two friends,” Wiesel, a Nobel laureate, told  Haaretz.

Haaretz reported that Wiesel and Obama became friends in 2009 when Wiesel  joined Obama on a visit to the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp, where  Wiesel was interned at the end of World War II following a death march from  Auschwitz.

“We talk about philosophy, contemplation, thought, but never about politics.  He is a thinking person, a person with depth and intellectual curiosity,” Wiesel  said about the dinners that the two occasionally have together.