The new White House flickr feed currently has nearly 300 images from freelance photographer Pete Souza. Click on the slideshow icon to see them full-screen, but for a real treat, especially on the Oval Office shots, click on "all sizes" above each individual shot to see the best detail. Here's a slideshow from the WH site.


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The story of a mythical beast (a grass-mud horse) and his friends (whose names seem to have been carefully chosen to sound like obscenities but still slip past Chinese internet censors,) is the latest sensation in China:

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