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March 21, 2010

Health care reform narrowly passes House

WASHINGTON (AP) - Widely viewed as dead two months ago, the Senate-passed bill cleared the House on a 219-212 vote.…
March 21, 2010

Obama looks for another win with student loan plan

WASHINGTON (AP) - With health care dominating House action, President Obama was looking for another domestic policy victory Sunday -…
March 21, 2010

Obama and Dems: ‘We’re well past 216’ votes for health reform

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama and House Democratic leaders struck a last-minute deal Sunday with abortion foes to secure the…
March 21, 2010

Why Smiley and Sharpton are both right about racial politics

OPINION - There is little hope of holding any Democratic president "accountable" to a "Black Agenda."...
March 20, 2010

Obama to Dems: Health reform ‘is in your hands’

VIDEO - Victory within reach, President Obama exhorted House Democrats on Saturday to stay true to their party's legacy and…
March 20, 2010

Health care reform protesters shout N-word at black lawmakers

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Andre Carson told a reporter that as he walked with Rep. John Lewis, a leader of…
March 20, 2010

African-Americans support Obama’s race-neutral stance

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Obama has refused from the beginning of his candidacy to separate the solutions to black America's…
March 20, 2010

Tavis Smiley can’t win with anti-Obama talk

OPINION - While Obama-mania is bad for African-Americans, consistently attacking him in black America is like telling a child that…
March 19, 2010

Dems down to the wire lobbying for reform votes

VIDEO - They've made some progress. A fourth Democrat, John Boccieri of Ohio, has switched his vote from "no" to…
March 19, 2010

First lady and feds to food industry: Cut the fat!

VIDEO - The federal government wants more power over what your kids eat at school and not just in the…
March 19, 2010

11-year-old caught in the middle of health reform mudslinging

OPINION - Marcelas Owens' story can bring realism and relevance to a debate that has been about posturing, bickering and…
March 19, 2010

Obama: ‘We are going to fix health care in America’

FAIRFAX, Virginia (AP) - President Obama delivered a closing argument for the goal to which he has devoted much of…
March 19, 2010

Obama skips Asia trip to push health care bill

WASHINGTON (AP) - A trip to Asia must wait as President Obama's sweeping $940 billion U.S. health care reform plan…
March 19, 2010

Maryland trying to secede from the South

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland's official song may include a line about "Northern scum" left over from the Civil War…
March 18, 2010

Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers

CENTRAL FALLS, Rhode Island (AP) - A union is condemning an effigy of President Obama that was hung upside down…