Obama naming NC's Mel Watt to oversee Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Jim Kuhnhenn and Nedra Pickler, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama intends to nominate Rep. Melvin Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government regulator that oversees lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

Tests link deadly ricin to Obama letters suspect

Holbrook Mohr and Jay Reeves, Associated Press

TUPELO, Mississippi (AP) - Ricin has been found in a business once used by the man charged in the case of letters laced with the deadly poison that were sent to President Barack Obama...

Obama says 'couldn't be prouder' of Jason Collins

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, Obama said Collins showed the progress the United States has made in recognizing that gays and lesbians deserve full equality...

1 killed, 1 injured roughly a half mile from Obama's Chicago home

NBC Chicago

NBC Chicago - Chicago police are looking for the gunman who killed a man and injured another overnight in the Hyde Park neighborhood, about a half mile from President Barack Obama's Chicago home...

Obama vows again to close prison at Guantanamo Bay

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he's going to try again to close down the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...

Obama sports bangs at annual dinner

Carrie Healey

theGRIO REPORT - At the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner President Barack Obama poked some fun at himself, saying he borrowed an idea from Michelle and then showed a picture of himself with bangs.

What Anthony Foxx's Cabinet promotion means

Mary C. Curtis

theGRIO REPORT - When Charlotte mayor Anthony Foxx said that he would not run for the third term he was almost guaranteed to win easily, most folks in town figured something big was in his future...

Anthony Foxx: 'No such thing as a Democratic or Republican road'

Julie Pace, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Monday tapped rising Democratic politician Anthony Foxx to lead the Department of Transportation, an agency at the center of Washington's fiscal fights...

Hearing held in case of poisoned letters mailed to Obama

Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi man charged with making a deadly poison sent to President Barack Obama and others was ordered held without bond until a hearing later this week when prosecutors are expected to describe what evidence they have against him...

In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites

Hope Yen, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time...

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