The economic hard times are so persistent that observers who supported the Recovery Act might be feeling twinges of guilt about President Obama's stimulus package.
[Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:04:27 GMT]
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders opened direct peace talks under U.S. auspices on Thursday and agreed to meet every two weeks to try to forge a deal within a year.
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[Thu, 2 Sep 2010 23:38:57 GMT]
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An Army judge rules that proof of President Barack Obama's eligibility to be president isn't relevant to the defense of an Army doctor accused of failing to obey a lawful order.
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[Fri, 3 Sep 2010 00:30:59 GMT]
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President Barack Obama makes it official, saying in a national address that Operation Iraqi Freedom is over and that the nation?s No. 1 priority is fixing the economy.
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[Wed, 1 Sep 2010 01:19:20 GMT]
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The full text of the president's Oval Office speech on Iraq, as prepared for delivery.
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[Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:19:17 GMT]
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Despite President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies ahead.
[Wed, 1 Sep 2010 01:49:35 GMT]
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The president prepares for an evening Oval Office address, marking the end of combat operations in Iraq. Why the administration isn?t declaring victory or "mission accomplished."
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[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:22:23 GMT]
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[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:22:23 GMT]
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Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs says he cannot foresee a circumstance in which the United States would have to send combat troops back to Iraq.
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[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:36:30 GMT]
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[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:36:30 GMT]
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It's out with the old and in with the new as the president's formal workspace undergoes a major makeover, including a new rug, furniture and wallpaper.
[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:38:13 GMT]
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President Barack Obama acknowledged Monday that the economy continues to struggle and too many Americans are still struggling to find jobs.
[Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:14:48 GMT]
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The White House says there are two words President Barack Obama will not say Tuesday night in his speech about the end of the U.S. combat role in Iraq: "Mission accomplished."
[Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:04:59 GMT]
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The Obama administration expanded sanctions against North Korea on Monday by freezing assets of individuals, companies and organizations allegedly linked to support for Pyongyang's nuclear program.
North Korea - Pyongyang - Asia - Presidency of Barack Obama - Weapon
[Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:18:30 GMT]
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President Barack Obama rejected criticism of his response to the Gulf oil spill Sunday, saying in an interview on ?NBC Nightly News? that his administration jumped on the crisis immediately.
[Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:54:42 GMT]
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Those hoping that President Obama would make a hard pivot to the economy after his 10-day vacation might not get their wish - at least over the next two weeks.
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[Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:16:21 GMT]
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President Barack Obama celebrated New Orleans's revival from Hurricane Katrina on Sunday and pledged common purpose with residents in the continuing struggle to protect and rebuild the Gulf Coast.
[Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:16:28 GMT]
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[Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:34:12 GMT]
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President Barack Obama wrapped up a 10-day vacation Saturday that was blissfully free of the news emergencies that have interrupted some of his past getaways.
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[Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:23:47 GMT]
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[Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:38:58 GMT]
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Emerging from semi-seclusion after four days of drenching rain, a cheery President Barack Obama lunched with his wife and daughters at a wharfside restaurant Wednesday and mingled with fellow vacationers. It was the family's first public appearance together since beginning their Martha's Vineyard stay.
[Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:53:29 GMT]
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The Miami Beach restaurant where President Barack Obama ordered pastrami sandwiches to go last week was cited this week by a state inspector for critical violations of sanitation and safety laws, a newspaper reported.
[Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:42:18 GMT]
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Vice President Joe Biden says Republican assertions that small businesses would suffer if all of the expiring Bush tax cuts aren't extended are a "bunch of malarkey."
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[Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:26 GMT]
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Justice Department lawyers are preparing to ask a federal judge to put a hold on his ruling this week that blocks awarding further federal grants for stem-cell research.
Presidency of Barack Obama - United States Department of Justice - Stem cell - Biotechnology - Biology
[Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:59:55 GMT]
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Vice President Joe Biden has told a military veterans convention in Indianapolis that insurgents in Iraq have failed in their efforts to undermine elections and the forming of a new government there.
[Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:40:22 GMT]
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President Barack Obama had a simple task for his first morning on vacation: shoot over to a Martha's Vineyard bookstore to fill out his daughters' summer reading list and grab himself a novel.
[Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:55:16 GMT]
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More than 13 million students and 1 million educators will share $3.4 billion from the second round of the federal "Race to the Top" grant competition, the U.S. Education Department says.
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[Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:05:49 GMT]
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The BP-government partnership raises questions about the government's ability to be impartial in meting out punishment for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
[Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:16:04 GMT]
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President Barack Obama says Republicans should join him in opposing a Supreme Court ruling that vastly increased how much corporations can spend on political campaign ads.
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[Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:51:59 GMT]
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A majority of Americans see no end in sight in Afghanistan, and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old war as President Barack Obama sends tens of thousands more troops to the fight, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
[Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:05:04 GMT]
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The Obama administration is being so heavily hammered politically?with declining poll numbers and out-of-control debates on Manhattan mosques?that officials appeared stunned when the administration scored a foreign policy coup early Friday.
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[Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:17:37 GMT]
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In the first full day of a Martha's Vineyard vacation, President Barack Obama set aside some of the cares of office Friday to work on his family's summer reading list.
[Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:05:25 GMT]
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Summertime has become Barack Obama?s season of discontent.
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[Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:40:05 GMT]
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Despite enjoying a mini-moment of grudging acceptance, George W. Bush is lying low. Were he to swagger back onto the stage, Republican friends say, the mellowing mood would evaporate ? and complicate the GOP?s effort to win back Congress.
[Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:31:58 GMT]
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The White House insisted on Thursday that President Barack Obama is a Christian who prays daily. The remarks came hours after a poll showed that nearly one in five people said they think Obama is Muslim
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[Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:04:00 GMT]
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Martha's Vineyard is barely an hour's flight from Washington, but it felt worlds away as President Barack Obama and his family began their summer vacation Thursday amid the island's beaches and quaint farmhouses.
[Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:04:15 GMT]
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With the controversy still swirling over plans for a mosque near the former World Trade Center, President Obama said he had "no regrets" about his involvement in the debate.
[Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:10:35 GMT]
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President Obama is on the final leg of his cross-country campaign swing, and he's trying out some new speech lines.
Barack Obama - United States - President - History - Democratic
[Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:03:21 GMT]
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[Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:03:21 GMT]
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Pivoting from million-dollar fundraisers to more mainstream struggles, President Barack Obama is sitting down at the kitchen table of an Ohio family for a chat about the economy and a chance to promote his ideas.
[Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:03:13 GMT]
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President Barack Obama earned his lowest marks ever on his handling of the economy in a new Associated Press-GfK poll, which also found that an overwhelming majority of Americans now describe the nation's financial outlook as poor.
[Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:39:02 GMT]
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A campaigning President Barack Obama said Tuesday it will take a few years to dig the nation out of the recession, warning impatient voters that any candidate promising faster results "is just looking for your vote."
[Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:45:41 GMT]
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