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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced plans to renovate its double-fountain Fifth Avenue plaza with $60 million of David H. Koch’s money. Koch, a libertarian Tea Party backer , and sworn enemy of many progressive causes, takes political positions anathema to many who benefit from his largesse. The latest donation prompted art critic Jerry Saltz and architecture critic Justin Davidson to ...

MOSCOW, Feb 7 — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the top security agency today to crack down on Islamist insurgents to prevent any attacks ahead of a March presidential election, which Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is widely expected to win. The militants, who have called Putin their sworn enemy, are fighting to create an Islamist state ...

A celebrated economist and noted foreign policy expert, Swamy is perhaps best known as a pedlar of conspiracy theories that range from the sublime to the ridiculous.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Mobbed by cameramen and with two fingers raised in a victory salute, Subramanian Swamy stood before India's Supreme Court on Thursday, flushed with the vindication of an unrelenting legal campaign aimed at the country's most powerful politicians. A publicity-hungry former minister and disgraced Harvard professor who is exalted by his Hindu nationalist followers as a crusading ...

By Henry Foy MUMBAI (Reuters) - Mobbed by cameramen and with two fingers raised in a victory salute, Subramanian Swamy stood before the Supreme Court on Thursday, flushed with the vindication of an unrelenting ...

Iran, according to U.S. officials and Israeli analysts, could have a testable nuclear weapon in a year-and-a half, and Israel, Iran’s sworn enemy, might not wait that long to act. NBC’s Richard Engel discusses this and rising tensions in Syria and Egypt with TODAY’s Ann Curry. (TODAY)

For the first time during his tenure as president of the U.S., President Barack Obama met with his Georgian counterpart Mikhail Saakashvili in the Oval Office of White House. The American host praised the guest, and set Georgia's democracy as an example to others.

It's been a while since we've heard from our pal Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project and sworn enemy of Barbara Coe. He does pop up on our comments from time to time, where he smacks down

At-Large D.C. Councilman David Catania, the unofficial sworn enemy of the city's CFO Natwar Ghandi, took the opportunity at hearing Thursday on internet gambling to publicly skewer the financial offier and call for his resignation. Ghandi, whose office shepherded through the new city lottery contract, was being hotly questioned by the council's finance commitee for his role in including "igaming ...

Stephanie Cutter, an adviser to the Obama re-election campaign, wrote a scathing memo the other day about Mitt Romney’s experience at Bain Capital, subtitled “Profit at Any Cost.” Cutter sounded like a sworn enemy of private equity. Except a few years ago, she was a spokeswoman for J.C...

» by Nina Achmatova From London, Berezovsky Kirill writes, but the Orthodox Church sarcastically rejects the proposal of a sworn enemy of Putin.