Obama home from whirlwind Ghana trip
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President Barack Obama is back home after a whirlwind visit to Ghana. He arrived at Andrews Air Force Base early Sunday morning, soon after midnight. Before departing, Obama addressed residents of Ghana at the airport...
Obama home from whirlwind Ghana trip
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President Barack Obama is back home after a whirlwind visit to Ghana. He arrived at Andrews Air Force Base early Sunday morning, soon after midnight. Before departing, Obama addressed residents of Ghana at the airport...
In personal terms, Obama hails Africa's promise
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America's president and Africa's son, Barack Obama dashed with pride onto the continent of his ancestors Saturday, challenging its people to shed corruption and conflict in favor of peace. Campaigning to all of Africa,...
Cast of characters on committee calling Sotomayor
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Live from the Capitol, Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings promise high political theater this week, beamed to the world in dramatic, historic, perhaps comedic glory. When the curtain rises Monday on Sotomayor's...
Hispanic rights group is fodder for Sotomayor foes
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Cesar Perales has fought his share of critics over the years, in legal battles for minorities denied jobs, bilingual classes in schools and more Latino police officers. But none of those efforts compares with the...
Obama: Daughters should learn from slave tour
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President Barack Obama says he hopes his family's tour of a former slave fortress on the coast of Ghana shows his daughters that history can take very cruel turns. Eleven-year-old Malia and eight-year-old Sasha...
AP source: Holder considering torture probe
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Attorney General Eric Holder is considering whether to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's interrogation practices, a controversial move that would run counter to President Barack...
Obama says slave site reminds him of world 'evil'
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President Barack Obama says a slave site reminds him of humanity's potential for "great evil" but also gives him a reason for hope, given the progress African-Americans have made since leaving the castle as slaves. ...
AP Interview: Hayden denies Congress not informed
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Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden angrily struck back Saturday at assertions the Bush administration's post-9/11 surveillance program was more far-reaching than imagined and was largely concealed from...
AP sources: Cheney told CIA not to discuss program
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA eight years ago not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program that CIA Director Leon Panetta terminated in June, officials with direct knowledge of...
Obama: Daughters should learn from slave tour
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President Barack Obama says he hopes his family's tour of a former slave fortress on the coast of Ghana shows his daughters that history can take very cruel turns. Eleven-year-old Malia and eight-year-old Sasha...
Philippine president to visit Obama on July 30
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House on July 30. The White House announced the visit Saturday as Obama wrapped up a weeklong trip to Russia, Italy and...
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama's whirlwind Ghana tour
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Protocol says you stand when the president enters a room. But for a handful of pregnant women, President Barack Obama was willing to make an exception. Obama and first lady Michelle Obama highlighted prenatal health...
Obama departs Ghana for trip home to United States
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President Barack Obama is headed home after a brief but whirlwind visit to Ghana. Before departing, Obama addressed Ghanaians at the airport in the capital of Accra. He said the trip was especially meaningful for him...
Obama says slave site reminds him of world 'evil'
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President Barack Obama says a slave site reminds him of humanity's potential for "great evil" but also gives him a reason for hope, given the progress African-Americans have made since leaving the castle as slaves. ...
Obama: Daughters should learn from slave tour
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President Barack Obama says he hopes his family's tour of a former slave fortress on the coast of Ghana shows his daughters that history can take very cruel turns. Eleven-year-old Malia and eight-year-old Sasha...
Obama rejects 2nd stimulus: Give recovery time
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President Barack Obama said Saturday the $787 billion stimulus program must be given a chance to work before consideration is given to a second such jolt for the still-ailing economy. Obama acknowledged in his weekly...
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Obama says slave site reminds him of human capacity for "great evil" ...
Text of Obama's speech in Ghana
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Text of President Barack Obama's speech Saturday in Accra, Ghana, as provided by the White House: ___ OBAMA: Good afternoon, everybody. It is a great honor for me to be in Accra and to speak to the representatives of...
Nominee puts on best face, but who is she?
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For weeks, Sonya Sotomayor has put on her best face, displaying a pleasant disposition that has somewhat fended off critics of her nomination to become the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. A federal judge...
Report: Too few officials knew of surveillance
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Not enough relevant officials were aware of the size and depth of an unprecedented surveillance program started under President George W. Bush, let alone signed off on it, a team of federal inspectors general found. ...
Obama says conflict too frequent in Africa
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President Barack Obama says conflict is too familiar in much of Africa and in some places is "as constant as the sun." Obama on Saturday told Ghana's Parliament that fighting is a part of life for too many on the...
Obama says US to help Africa fight AIDS, malaria
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President Barack Obama says the United States will help African allies combat HIV and AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Obama on Saturday told Ghana's Parliament that the United States would continue the work started...
Obama: Prosperity is in Africa's future
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President Barack Obama is promising to make sure that U.S. aid to Africa gets to the people who need it most, such as farmers and entrepreneurs, and not Western consultants and administrators. In a speech Saturday in...
Obama praises Ghana for its democratic traditions
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President Barack Obama says governments that respect the will of their people enjoy more prosperity, stability and success than those that don't. In a speech Saturday in Ghana, Obama congratulated the West African...
Obama to Africa's young people: Step up now!
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President Barack Obama is challenging Africa's young people to aspire to a better life, telling them that it's their responsibility "to build upon freedom's foundation." In his first visit to the sub-continent as...
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President Barack Obama says Africa facing 'new moment of promise' ...
Obama admin: No grounds to probe Afghan war crimes
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Obama administration officials said Friday they had no grounds to investigate the 2001 deaths of Taliban prisoners of war who human rights groups allege were killed by U.S.-backed forces. The mass deaths were brought...
House Dems want to tax the rich for health care
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Key House Democrats decided Friday to raise taxes on the wealthy to help pay for health care legislation, capping an up-and-down week for President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. At the same time, Democratic...
Obama has full day in Ghana
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President Barack Obama begins a packed day in Ghana with a morning meeting in Accra with Ghanaian President John Atta Mills. It's Obama's first visit as president to sub-Saharan Africa. After the bilateral meeting and...
Pope presses Obama on abortion, stem cells
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Pope Benedict XVI stressed the church's opposition to abortion and stem cell research in his first meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday, pressing the Vatican's case with the U.S. leader who is already under...
Obama parks pick enmeshed in Calif. oyster flap
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President Barack Obama on Friday tapped Jon Jarvis to head the National Park Service, turning to a 30-year-veteran who oversees the national parks across the Western states, and who also has angered a powerful U.S....
Congress asked to probe troops extremist fringe
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One of the country's main monitors of hate groups asked Congress Friday to investigate possible racial extremism in the military, after finding U.S. service members participating on a social networking site advertised...
Women's groups quiet on Sotomayor
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Women's groups, euphoric when President Barack Obama chose Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, have been remarkably quiet in the weeks since on the judge who would be the court's third woman ever. Sotomayor's few...
Analysis: Obama suggests sanctions for Iran
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After a half-year of extending patient feelers to Iran, President Barack Obama has set a timeline _ warning Tehran it must show willingness to negotiate an end to its nuclear program by September or face consequences. ...
US moving away from Afghan drug eradication
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The 4,000 U.S. Marines now pushing deep into Taliban-controlled tracts as part of an expanded war in southern Afghanistan are setting up fire bases amid some of the most productive poppy fields in the world's...
FACT CHECK: GOP joins murky math on stimulus jobs
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House Republicans on Friday declared the nation's economic stimulus efforts a "dismal failure." But the convoluted math they used to disparage the recovery is as murky and meaningless as the White House formula...
Obama parks pick enmeshed in Calif. oyster flap
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President Barack Obama on Friday tapped Jon Jarvis to head the National Park Service, turning to a 30-year-veteran who oversees the national parks across the Western states, and who also has angered a powerful U.S....
Obama picks SD senator's son as US attorney
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President Barack Obama nominated Brendan Johnson, the 34-year-old son of Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., on Friday to serve as U.S. attorney for South Dakota. The elder Johnson, who has served in the Senate since 1997, said...
Burris out of 2010 run, Ill. Senate race wide open
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Embattled Sen. Roland Burris may have relieved Illinois Democrats of their biggest political headache and reduced Republican chances of capturing a valuable Senate seat next year by announcing Friday he won't run for a...
Homeland unveils immigration enforcement plan
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An overhauled federal program allowing local and state law enforcement officials to arrest and deport immigrants will focus on the most serious criminals and limit officers' police powers, the Homeland Security...
Clinton says reporters held in NKorea sorry
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday urged North Korea to grant amnesty to two American reporters sentenced to 12 years of hard labor last month for illegally entering North Korea. Clinton said the...
Text of Obama's news conference on Friday
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Text of President Barack Obama's news conference on Friday in L'Aquila, Italy, as provided by the White House: ___ Obama: Thank you. Please, everybody have a seat. I apologize for being a little bit late. Good...
Appeals court expands lawmakers legal protection
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What a lawmaker divulged to a Capitol Hill ethics probe about a golf trip with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff cannot be used against him in a criminal investigation, an appeals court has ruled in a case that could...
Geithner: Stimulus is working and on right path
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Despite persistently high unemployment, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Friday the Obama administration's economic stimulus plan is on the "expected path." "There's been substantial improvements in arresting...
Former Sen. Dole undergoes leg surgery
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Former GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole remained hospitalized Friday following leg surgery performed after he initially sought medical treatment for heart problems. The former Senate majority leader has been at...
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama staffers meet pope
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If one career highlight was getting Barack Obama elected president, another might be meeting the pope. Several senior White House staffers had the honor Friday, after President Barack Obama's private audience with Pope...
Obama plane emergency could have been a disaster
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Skillful piloting may have prevented a disaster for President Barack Obama and his campaign last summer, a former federal safety official said Friday. A report released by the National Transportation Safety Board...
Obama delivers letter to pope from Sen. Kennedy
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President Barack Obama has given Pope Benedict XVI a personal letter from ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy. White House national security aide Denis McDonough said Obama and Benedict discussed Kennedy at the end of a...
House boosts funding for veterans programs
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Veterans health care programs would receive another big boost under a $132.4 billion measure passed by the House on Friday. The 12 percent increase for the veterans medical services account is but the latest in a...