Barack Obama

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March 14, 2010

Clarence Thomas’ wife launches ‘Tea Party’ group

As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the "tea party" movement…
March 12, 2010

Democrats look to resurrect ambitious college aid plan

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Democrats want a stalled overhaul of college aid programs to get strapped onto a fast-track health…
March 12, 2010

Pelosi promises swift passage of health care reform

WASHINGTON (AP) - At the White House, officials worked to maximize Obama's influence over lawmakers who control the fate of…
March 12, 2010

Rev. Jeremiah Wright discusses Obama controversy, history of his church

President Obama's former pastor Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. on Wednesday compared the president to a son who was being…
March 12, 2010

Tempe students scrap walkout over Obama essay contest

The Marcos de Niza seniors, who wrote essays and made a video for the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge...
March 12, 2010

Desirée Rogers ran into sharp elbows at White House

Desirée Rogers began to understand she was in trouble when David Axelrod summoned her to his office last spring to…
March 12, 2010

Obama delays Asia trip to deal with health care

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama has delayed his first international trip of the year to focus attention on the final…
March 11, 2010

Black Caucus wants more from Obama

VIDEO - Several caucus members feel strongly that the president is not listening to their concerns...
March 11, 2010

Obama gives $1.4 million Nobel prize to charity

WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama will give $200,000 to the Bush-Clinton Haiti Fund to help the country recover from the earthquake...
March 11, 2010

Foreclosure rates up by smallest amount in years

WASHINGTON (AP) - The foreclosure crisis in the U.S. isn't over, but the pace of growth may finally be slowing…
March 11, 2010

Congressional Black Caucus: President Obama’s not listening

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are headed to the White House for a meeting on jobs Thursday, and they'll…
March 10, 2010

Obama renews support for Haiti, warns that ‘dire’ crisis isn’t over

WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama said the challenge now is "to prevent a second disaster" with the start of the rainy…
March 10, 2010

Despite setbacks, Obama remains more popular than Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty…
March 10, 2010

Why some people want to make a monkey out of Michelle

OPINION - The long, sordid and savage history of racist stereotyping of African-Americans has been the stock in trade of…
March 10, 2010

Obama enters home stretch on health care reform

VIDEO - President Obama is making his closing arguments for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan...
March 10, 2010

How Obama and Preval can reset US-Haiti relations

OPINION - There is an opportunity for Haitian leadership to renegotiate the nation's relationship with the world...
March 9, 2010

Haiti’s president heads to Washington to talk aid

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitian President Rene Preval is heading to the U.S. to discuss what is needed to rebuild…
March 9, 2010

Dan Rather uses ‘Obama,’ ‘articulate’ and ‘watermelons’ in same anecdote

Dan Rather, longtime anchor at the CBS Evening News and now of HD Net, has been known for his analogies…
March 9, 2010

First grandma Marian Robinson keeps low profile

WASHINGTON - After President Barack Obama was elected, his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, said that she loved her family, but she…
March 8, 2010

‘Fired up’ Obama pitches health care reform to public

VIDEO - Stirring memories of his campaign for the White House, President Obama made a spirited, shirt-sleeved appeal for passage…