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President Barack Obama is attending a memorial service at Fort Hood on Tuesday and now won't get to his planned first stop in Asia next week until one day later than expected. Complete Story...
President Barack Obama's health care initiative has cleared its first big hurdle in the House, with lawmakers voting to advance the debate.
Text of President Barack Obama's remarks Saturday at the White House on health care legislation:
The sign going on the front door at the Perry County courthouse reads: "Closed for the Obama Holiday."
A man who threatened to kill Barack Obama last summer just before the Democratic National Convention in Denver has pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges.
The House has opened debate on President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul that would extend insurance to tens of millions of Americans and enact dramatic changes to the country's medical system.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Saturday accused critics of U.S. President Barack Obama of foolishly expecting him to fix the world's woes single-handedly.
President Barack Obama will meet leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Myanmar, in a high-level affirmation of Washington's new policy of engaging the military-ruled country despite its dismal human rights record.
A top Pentagon official says President Barack Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan will be certain to include reinforcements of foreign troops from both the United States and allied nations.
A top official in Gov. Bill Richardson's cabinet has resigned over a drunken driving arrest just days after she was appointed to a spot in President Barack Obama's administration.
President Barack Obama spent nearly two hours visiting wounded U.S. soldiers Friday afternoon.
For months he had warned it was coming but that didn't ease the political shockwaves for President Barack Obama when unemployment topped 10 percent.
President Barack Obama still expects to have a health care overhaul bill to sign by year's end and plans to personally lobby for it in a visit to Capitol Hill on Saturday, the White House said.
President Barack Obama said new figures released Friday showing national unemployment has hit the double-digit mark are a sobering reminder of the challenges still facing the U.S. economy.
President Barack Obama is expected to talk about the Fort Hood shootings and the double-digit unemployment figures at the White House later this morning.
China criticized Washington for imposing anti-dumping duties on Chinese-made steel pipes and launched a probe Friday of imported U.S. autos, adding to trade tensions two weeks before President Barack Obama visits Beijing.
President Barack Obama's next move on Afghanistan is growing more difficult by the day. Deadly attacks this week deepened British and U.N. alarm over their commitments, and fresh worries about Iraq could delay the exit of U.S. troops there, squeezing an already overstretched military.
In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.
President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service Tuesday honoring victims of the Ford Hood shootings, an attack he described as "all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable" because it occurred on the nation's largest Army post.
An Army psychiatrist who opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 people and wounding 31 others, was shot but captured alive, military officials said late Thursday.
In a heated race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, Gov. Charlie Crist keeps moving away from his support of President Barack Obama's stimulus package that the governor called "fantastic" and "remarkable" when lobbying for its passage.
The White House says President Barack Obama on Friday morning will sign a bill that expands a popular homebuyers tax credit and extends unemployment benefits.
President Barack Obama trumpeted two major endorsements for his health overhaul push Thursday as House Democratic leaders pushed toward a vote Saturday on the far-reaching legislation remaking the U.S. health care system.
President Barack Obama says now is the time for Congress to "answer the call of history" and approve legislation revamping the country's health care system.
President Barack Obama assured American Indians on Thursday that they have a place in his White House and on his agenda, telling tribal leaders their marginalized community deserves more from its government.
10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care BattleWild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.
Astroturf In Action: Right-Wing Billionaire David Koch Pays For 40 Buses To Haul In Protesters Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the corporate front group founded in the 1980s by Koch Industries billionaire David Koch, worked closely with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to orchestrate the anti-health reform rally today.
CNN Poll 72% of Americans Opposed to Pelosi/Obama HR 3962 Healthcare BillWith House Democrats racing to pass their 2,000-plus page health care reform bill this weekend, a new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows that an overwhelming majority of those surveyed -- 72 percent -- want Congress either to make major changes, start over from scratch, or simply st …
Shooter advised Obama transitionNEW YORK – Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in yesterday's massacre at Fort Hood, played a homeland security advisory role in President Barack Obama's transition into the White House, according to a key university policy institute document.
OK. Short article, hopefully a lively and CIVIL discussion. I keep hearing the phrase "Barack Obama is Destroying America" or some variant of that ("He's a Nazi" "He's a Communist" etc.). Would somebody please explain it to me like I'm in grade school?
Limbaugh's fetish? Mentions "anal poisoning" 13 times in 2 yearsMSNBC's Keith Olbermann named Rush Limbaugh one of the world's worst people Thursday evening for saying that an HBO special about President Barack Obama should get "anal poisoning."
U.S. Muslims Condemn Attack at Fort HoodIn light of the tragedy at Fort Hood, I fully expect some Republicans to start "McCarthyite" attacks on all Muslims on the armed forces. I have no doubt that President Obama will stand up to them. This is America and we have freedom of religion.
Michele Bachmann's Tea-Partier "Super Bowl of Freedom"Their main grievance was health care reform—some periodically broke out into chants of "Kill the bill!"—but many protesters saw reform as a part of a larger problem of government overreach: the stimulus, bailouts, and proposed cap and trade legislation.
The Republican Health PlanHouse Republican leaders have produced their own health care reform bill. Here is the first thing you need to know: It would do almost nothing to reduce the scandalously high number of Americans who have no insurance.
2008 President Election Anniversary: Tinkering We Can Believe InBefore there were tea partiers, there were nurses. Angry nurses disrupting Sen. Max Baucus' health care reform meetings back in the politically halcyon days of spring.
Banned the use of "harsh interrogation" and ordered the closing of Guantanamo.Reversed George W.
Obama wasn't on the ballot - Why the 2009 Elections Don't Matter To The Obama White HouseWhat do these strange, odd-year elections – suddenly so feverishly important, now that America's excitable right-wingers from Rush Limbaugh on down demand that they be – tell us about Barack Obama's political health? Not very much, really.
A court decision that reflects what type of country the U.S. isIt's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday's ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft (.pdf).
Budget Monitor Says G.O.P. Bill Leaves Many UninsuredThe Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday that an alternative health care bill put forward by House Republicans would have little impact in extending health benefits to the roughly 30 million uninsured Americans, but would reduce average insurance premium costs for peopl …
Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA: "We got walloped.". . ."National polls for months have shown deep unease among independent voters about Washington spending and about the expansiveness of Democratic proposals.
Yet Another FOX News LieThe article speaks for itself. FOX News lies yet again.
Can you believe it has been a whole year since Barack Obama was elected President? Where were you when you found out he had won? How was your voting experience? I am a Canadian so obviously did not vote in NJ but the Hyder family did have its own Election Headquarters.
10 Recovery Act MYTHSWe need to fight back against lies and distortions.
The Republican Leadership Health Plan: For The Healthy, While They're Healthy The Republican leadership in the House has sent a health care bill to the Congressional Budget Office and the early details don't look good: - Insurers could circumvent state-based consumer protections by selling policies across state lines
'V' aims at Obamamania -- Sci-fi throwback to the days of "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" ("V" is irresistible)Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.
I cannot believe that it is exactly one year ago today I was in Grant Park watching the results of the American presidential election, seeing my predictions come true and the new President-Elect walk unto the stage with his family.
Fred Abrahams: On Israel, Congress Tolerates AbuseYesterday the US Congress gravely insulted hundreds of civilians who were wounded or killed in the most recent war in the Middle East.
He's the presidential pooches' right-hand manDale Haney has kept the White House grass green and the flowers blooming for 40 years, but he's cultivated something else just as important: relationships with the presidents' pooches. Haney has tended to all of them from Richard Nixon's King Timahoe to Barack Obama's Bo.
Obama's half brother: Our father was abusivePresident Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel - the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.
Obama's half brother: Our father was abusivePresident Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel - the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.
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