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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…
March 8, 2010

New poll finds blacks motivated to vote in November

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats facing strong headwinds this election season have at least one reason for optimism...
March 8, 2010

Va. health bill could foil Obama proposal

RICHMOND - Here in the former capital of the Old Confederacy, where resistance to the supremacy of federal law has…
March 8, 2010

Obama to appeal for public support on health care

WASHINGTON (AP) - With the fate of his signature legislative initiative far from certain, President Obama is taking his last-ditch…
March 5, 2010

Jay-Z, Beyoncé meet President Obama during White House visit

It was the president of rap meeting the President of the United States...
March 5, 2010

Obama to meet with Haitian president at White House

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says Obama and President Rene Preval will meet on Wednesday...
March 5, 2010

Unemployment rate remains unchanged as 36,000 jobs lost

VIDEO - The figures suggest the job market is slowly healing but that significant hiring has yet to occur...