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Man arrested after wife writes to Obama asking for help

By doris | Published: June 22, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com New York (CNN) — Not everyone expects a response when they write a letter to the president of the United States. But Caroline Jamieson got much more than she expected when her husband ended up in jail and afraid he would be deported. Jamieson, vice president of marketing at a new-media advertising [...]

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Boeing Plans Bid on Presidential Helicopter Fleet

By doris | Published: June 7, 2010

Full Story at NYTimes.c Boeing will buy the rights to build a midsize helicopter from AgustaWestland, a European company, according to Philip J. Dunford, vice president and general manager of Boeing Rotorcraft Systems. AgustaWestland had previously teamed with Lockheed Martin for the project, which the Pentagon canceled in June 2009, citing cost overruns.

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Obama to allow oil drilling off Virginia

By doris | Published: March 31, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – In a reversal of a long-standing ban on most offshore drilling, President Barack Obama is allowing oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia’s shorelines. At the same time, he is rejecting some new drilling sites that had been planned in Alaska. Obama’s plan offers few concessions to environmentalists, who have [...]

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Haiti quake gives Guantanamo new mission

By doris | Published: January 22, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – The Haiti earthquake is giving the American base at Guantanamo Bay a new mission: supplying aid to the devastated island nation and potentially detaining thousands of Haitian migrants captured at sea. President Barack Obama’s deadline for closing the base prison expires Friday with no new [...]

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Troops, families mixed over Obama’s surge

By doris | Published: December 2, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com JACKSONVILLE, N.C. – Battle-weary troops and their families braced for a wrenching round of new deployments to Afghanistan announced Tuesday by the president, but many said they support the surge as long as it helps to end the eight-year-old conflict. As President Barack Obama outlined his plan to send 30,000 extra [...]

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Supreme Court to hear labor board case

By doris | Published: November 8, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether two people can do the work of five when it comes to resolving labor-management disputes in the workplace. The National Labor Relations Board, which for decades has had the responsibility to police many of these disputes, has operated with only [...]

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Man carries assault rifle to Obama protest — and it’s legal

By doris | Published: August 18, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Video from the protest in Phoenix, Arizona, shows the man standing with other protesters, with the rifle slung over his right shoulder. Phoenix police said authorities monitored about a dozen people carrying weapons while peacefully demonstrating. “It was a group interested in exercising the right to bear arms,” said police spokesman [...]

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Fidel Castro: Obama Misinterpreted Raul

By doris | Published: April 22, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (AP) Fidel Castro said Tuesday that President Obama “misinterpreted” his brother Raul’s sentiments toward the United States and bristled at any suggestion Cuba should free political prisoners or reduce official fees on money sent to the island from the U.S. Raul Castro touched off a whirlwind of speculation that the [...]

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Administration open to taxing health benefits

By doris | Published: March 16, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is signaling to Congress that the president could support taxing some employee health benefits, as several influential lawmakers and many economists favor, to help pay for overhauling the health care system. The proposal is politically problematic for President Obama, however, since it is similar to one [...]

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Obama outlines ambitious agenda for ‘lasting prosperity’

By doris | Published: February 25, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com n his first speech to a joint session of Congress, Obama said it’s time to act boldly not just to revive the economy, but “to build a new foundation for lasting prosperity.” “While the cost of action will be great, I can assure you that the cost of inaction will be [...]

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Obama: ‘I screwed up’ on Daschle appointment

By doris | Published: February 4, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday admitted he made a mistake in handling the nomination of Tom Daschle as his Health and Human Services secretary, saying Daschle’s tax problems sent a message that the politically powerful are treated differently from average people.

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Obama’s half brother arrested on charge of marijuana possession

By doris | Published: January 31, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) — George Obama, the half brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, has been arrested by Kenyan police on a charge of possession of marijuana, police said Saturday.

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Obama reverses abortion-funding policy

By doris | Published: January 24, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama struck down a rule Friday that prohibits U.S. money from funding international family-planning clinics that promote abortion or provide counseling or referrals about abortion services.President Obama says he doesn’t want family planning to be used as a “political wedge.” President Obama says he doesn’t want family [...]

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Obama Tax Cuts Move Forward In Congress

By doris | Published: January 23, 2009

Full Storly At  CBS News (AP) Economic stimulus legislation at the heart of President Barack Obama’s recovery plan advanced in Congress Thursday over the persistent opposition of Republicans seeking deeper tax cuts than the administration and its Democratic allies favor. “We are very pleased with the progress,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after $275 billion [...]

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Obama To Sign Gitmo Closure Order Thursday

By doris | Published: January 21, 2009

Full Story At CBS News CBS/ AP) President Barack Obama plans to sign on Thursday an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year and halt military trials of terror suspects held there, the Associated Press reported. The executive order was one of three expected imminently on how to interrogate and [...]

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Sober Obama speech draws on surprising sources

By doris | Published: January 21, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — Barack Obama, who shot from obscurity to fame based on a single speech and then captured the White House in a campaign marked by soaring rhetoric, delivered a restrained, sober inaugural address Tuesday. Gone was the mantra-like “Yes we can” chanted by supporters, which Obama invoked as a [...]

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Obama takes power, urges unity vs. ‘raging storms’

By doris | Published: January 20, 2009

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