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March 18, 2010

House Dems on track for vote on $940 billion health bill

WASHINGTON (AP) - The bill delivers on President Obama's top domestic priority by providing coverage to more than 30 million…
March 18, 2010

Lawmakers fight to finish health reform

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pushing toward a history-making vote, Democrats struggled to eliminate lingering complications standing in the way of House…
March 18, 2010

Baller-in-chief: Obama’s ‘March Madness’ bracket scores well

OPINION - As much as I would have loved to see the president go out on a limb and pick…
March 17, 2010

Senate OKs jobs bill for Obama’s signature

VIDEO - Companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill that easily won…
March 17, 2010

Kucinich switches vote, will back health reform

WASHINGTON (AP) - Liberal Rep. Dennis Kucinich says he will support President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill when the…
March 17, 2010

Late-innings hardball in health care push

VIDEO - With time and tempers short, everyone's playing hardball in the drive to pass - or stop - Obama's…
March 17, 2010

Hawaii considering law to ignore ‘birthers’

HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii may start ignoring repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born there...
March 17, 2010

Obama’s new partner: Al Sharpton

President Barack Obama has turned to Mr. Sharpton in recent weeks to answer increasingly public criticism in the black community…
March 16, 2010

Obama woos wavering Dems on health vote

VIDEO - Days away from a make-or-break vote on his fiercely contested health care overhaul, President Obama is turning up…
March 16, 2010

It’s ‘do or die’ week for health care reform – how did we get here?

OPINION - While it may feel like déjà vu all over again, democrats actually are closer than ever to passing…
March 16, 2010

Indonesia remembers young Barack Obama

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Somewhat bluntly, Barack Obama's former teacher sums up the neighborhood thinking when the future American president…
March 15, 2010

Obama seeks to reassure seniors on health care

VIDEO - With a fresh sense of urgency, President Obama sought to reassure seniors Monday about health care legislation approaching…
March 15, 2010

Obama portrait removal is a prank to some, prejudice to others

VIDEO - Oklahoma state lawmakers are investigating a presidential mystery. A portrait of President Obama keeps moving from a wall…
March 15, 2010

A look at Democrats’ health care overhaul

WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama and congressional Democrats are pulling together a final version of a health care overhaul bill and…
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…