Former President George H.W. Bush went on a parachute jump in KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine to celebrate 85th birthday.

Onlookers were heard yelling: "Look! In the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a politician falling faster than his son's approval ratings."

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In Canada, the Royal Canadian Mint is under investigation for misplacing some of the nation's gold bullion and precious metals.

The Canadian financial institution lost approximately 10 million dollars, causing many Americans to criticize Canada for creating what financial experts say is an extremely poor imitation of the U.S. economic crisis.

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This past week while President Obama was visiting Germany, genealogists here in the US discovered that Obama's eighth great grandfather was, in fact, born in Germany. So he's part German.

Which probably was NOT what Adolf Hitler was thinking when he said "Germans would one day rule the world".

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