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March 12, 2014

The good and bad news for Obamacare in new data

theGRIO REPORT - A stream of new data has been released in the last several days about the new health…
March 11, 2014

President Obama scores laughs for health care on Funny or Die's 'Between Two Ferns'

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is hamming it up online to promote his health care plan...
March 10, 2014

Women's History Month: How Oprah Winfrey became her OWN woman

OPINION - If Oprah Winfrey didn’t exist, we couldn’t invent her, at least not without her help...
March 10, 2014

Aretha Franklin on President Obama's 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T' flub: 'Spelling and giving it is a huge difference'

E! Online - Aretha Franklin realizes everyone make mistakes—even the President of the United States...
March 10, 2014

Obamacare credited with significantly lowering rate of uninsured

WASHINGTON (AP) — The rate of U.S. adults who lack health insurance keeps going down, according to major survey tracking…
March 8, 2014

How the Republicans are still blocking a key plank of Obamacare

theGRIO REPORT - Seventeen states, most in the South or Mountain West, are unabashedly rejecting any consideration of expanding their…
March 8, 2014

At CPAC, Obama's potential successors try to position themselves for the future

theGRIO REPORT - In their speeches at the Conservative Political Action Committee's annual conference, Republican 2016 candidates unsurprisingly bashed President…
March 8, 2014

Daughter of Jeremiah Wright convicted in fraud scheme

CHICAGO — The daughter of President Barack Obama's former pastor was convicted on Friday of laundering thousands of dollars from…
March 8, 2014

President Obama warns party to focus on 2014, not 2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats could get walloped in the November elections. The party gets sleepy and distracted in the midterms.…
March 7, 2014

President Obama shows his R-E-S-P-E-C-T for 'women of soul'

WASHINGTON (AP) — He bobbled the spelling, but President Barack Obama had nothing but R-E-S-P-E-C-T for the "women of soul"…
March 6, 2014

Sen. Tom Harkin: Civil rights nominee would have been confirmed if he were white

theGRIO REPORT - President Obama's nomination of civil rights lawyer Debo Adegbile to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division…
March 5, 2014

Senate blocks President Obama's pick for civil rights post

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's choice to head the Justice Department's civil rights division has failed a Senate test…
March 5, 2014

What’s the deal with Kesha Rogers? Democratic Senate candidate compares Obama to Hitler

OPINION - Rogers has compared President Obama to Hitler, complete with a Hitler mustache, and likened Obamacare to the policies…
March 3, 2014

President Obama tries to build international coalition against Russia

theGRIO REPORT - President Obama, as he has done in virtually every foreign policy conflict since he entered office, is…
March 3, 2014

Is President Obama out-of-order on his judicial picks?

theGRIO REPORT - Perhaps more than any issue during his six years in office, some of Obama's strongest black and…
February 28, 2014

Bill O'Reilly calls out 'gangsta rappers' Jay Z, Kanye West

theGRIO REPORT - Fox News host Bill O'Reilly got into a heated conversation with Senior Advisor to President Obama Valerie…
February 28, 2014

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden go jogging through the White House

theGRIO REPORT - President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden supported First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign Friday by…
February 27, 2014

President Obama gets personal in launching new program 'My Brother's Keeper'

theGRIO REPORT - President Obama on Thursday spoke in deeply personal terms about growing up without a father and urged…
February 27, 2014

President Obama on his youth: 'I made bad choices. I got high'

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday launched his 'My Brother's Keeper' initiative, urging stronger efforts to create more…
February 27, 2014

Rep. David Scott: President Obama shows 'disrespect' with judicial nominees

theGRIO REPORT - The growing chorus of critics on the Left of President Barack Obama' s Georgia judicial appointees is…