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December 9, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama headed to South Africa on Monday to speak at a national memorial service for…
December 9, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama has made no secret about the fact that the late South African leader was…
December 7, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Pickens County, South Carolina sheriff Rick Clark took to social media Friday to declare that he would…
December 6, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will travel to South Africa next week to pay…
December 6, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A poll of 18-29 year-olds released by Harvard University's Institute of Politics showed some troubling numbers for…
December 6, 2013
ANALYSIS - They are in many ways kindred spirits, patient, confident men who rose to power, employing their unifying styles…
December 5, 2013
MSNBC - In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, the president said Republicans shouldered most of the blame for gridlock…
December 5, 2013
theGRIO SLIDESHOW - View our slideshow of key political figures and the statements they released on Mandela and the legacy…
December 5, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the world has lost an influential, courageous and 'profoundly good' man with the…
December 5, 2013
NBC NEWS - The uncle, Onyango 'Omar' Obama, had been facing deportation, but was granted legal residency this week in…
December 5, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A recent cartoon by artist Ted Rall has created a firestorm after he posted it on the…
December 4, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - President Obama gave a provocative speech about race, class and inequality in Southeast Washington today. Here's a…
December 4, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday insisted that the sweeping overhaul is working and warned Republican critics that…
December 4, 2013
BOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's Kenyan-born uncle, who ignored a deportation order more than two decades ago, on Tuesday…
December 3, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Rep. Michele Bachmann may be retiring from Congress after next year -- but she isn't going away…
December 3, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Administration officials say that getting a large percentage of young people into the private insurance plans is…
December 3, 2013
OPINION - While the president’s detractors, xenophobes that they are, always tell him to go back to Kenya, they may…
December 2, 2013
NBC NEWS - Obama announced that $100 million in funding will be redirected to a National Institutes of Health program…
December 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Clinton aides aren't saying why publicly, but there is one obvious reason: preventing the emergence of another…
December 2, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Sunday that the federal government's health care website is now operating more smoothly…