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The White House Says You Can Use the Metric System If You Want To

When we saw a 'We the People' petition to the White House to make the US move to the metric system, we listed very sensible reasons why the US should listen: The imperial system is archaic, irrelevant, doesn't scale easily and to be honest, there are just too many d

White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care

Earlier this year we discussed a petition on the White House's 'We The People' site asking the administration to adopt the metric system as the standard system of measurement in the U.S. Today, the administration issued a disappointing response.

Watch: Capitol Crumbles Bit by Bit in 'White House Down' Featurette

Hot on the heels of a new poster for this summer's explosive action thriller White House Down, which features Channing Tatum in white tanktop like a certain action hero played by Bruce Willis, a cool new featurette goes behind the scenes with director Roland Emmeric

Steve Forrest obituary

Hollywood actor best known for his starring role as Lieutenant Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson in the 70s cop series S.W.A.T.

Steve Forrest, who has died aged 87, was a product of the Hollywood studio system, then at its tail end in the 1950s.

Petition Asks Obama To Support Treaty For The Blind, Rather Than Siding With Hollywood

During the course of President Obama's administration, he has gone back and forth over support for the WIPO treaty for the blind, which would make it easier for vision impaired people to get copies of books that they can read (allowing legally made copies to be shared across borders).

Obama drone oversight proposal prompts concern over 'kill courts'

Human rights groups wary after president asks Congress to establish special court or board to authorise legal drone action

Proposals to vet future US drone strikes risk creating "kill courts" according to human rights campaigners who say Barack Obama's promise of new legal oversight does no

J Crew brings Obama chic to London

Children's label Crewcuts sees White House aesthetic expand its influence over British life with its zingy take on preppy classics

This weekend, in an operation masterminded from a minimalist-chic brick-and-glass headquarters in central London, the

Sally Ride to Receive Medal of Freedom

Sally Ride, the United States' first woman in space, will be posthumously honored with the country's highest civilian commendation and the renaming of a high-flying camera.

Channing Tatum is John McClane on New 'White House Down' Poster

Well, the poster is slightly new. It was actually released earlier this month, but it's been ever so slightly tweaked so that Channing Tatum isn't covering Jamie Foxx so much.

Barack Obama says heckler's drone views should be heard

Medea Benjamin's opinions on drones and Guantánamo 'worth paying attention to', president tells audience after interruptions

Barack Obama acknowledged that the views of an anti-war protester were "worth paying attention to" after she repeatedly interrupted his speech on counter-terrorism by