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Romney: Obama focused on 'character assassination'(AP) — The Nebraska billionaire who considered a plan to resurrect incendiary comments by President Barack Obama's former pastor shelved the idea Thursday after Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney denounced the tactic. |
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Obama's home-turf summits will test his leverageBy BEN FELLER AP WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will find his diplomatic clout tested at twin summits on his own turf beginning Friday. The big global problems are the economic mess in Europe and finding scarce money to boost a postwar ... |
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Obama Lunch With Boehner Ends With Standoff Over BudgetBy James Rowley and Kathleen Hunter on May 17, 2012 The lunch meeting between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner had the trappings of collegiality as they munched on hoagie sandwiches and potato chips from a local deli. |
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Obama eases economic sanctions, names ambassador to MyanmarBy Anne Gearan and Matthew Pennington | AP WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday declared a new chapter in US relations with Myanmar, easing an investment ban and naming the first US ambassador to the former pariah state in 22 years to ... |
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Barack Obama Torture Lessons: New Book Details Clashes With Bush's CIA DirectorBarack Obama railed against the intelligence programs implemented under President George W. Bush and vowed to end practices like extraordinary rendition and the "enhanced interrogation techniques" that many considered torture. |
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Afghanistan, detention issue divide lawmakersWASHINGTON—Coalitions of House Democrats and tea partyers pushed to speed up President Barack Obama's withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and end the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects, even American citizens, captured on US soil. |
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Leader of Obama's former church defends president on gay marriageCHICAGO _ The leader of President Barack Obama's former church in Chicago has come out against statements by other African-American clergy who condemned the president's endorsement last week of same-sex marriage. The Rev. Otis Moss III, the senior ... |
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Two Fed Nominees Get Senate BackingBy KRISTINA PETERSON WASHINGTON—The Senate confirmed President Barack Obama's two nominees to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, filling the seven-member panel for the first time since April 2006. The Senate approved the nominations of Harvard ... |
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Auto union slams Obama budget as 'attack on the middle class'President Barack Obama's 2012 budget was slammed May 16 as an “attack on the middle class and our most vulnerable citizens” by the United Auto Workers (UAW). The slam came as Republican senators used the Senate's complex rules to schedule a floor ... |
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Barack Obama and François Hollande: new style, same substanceWhen France's Socialist president, François Hollande, arrives at the White House for breakfast with Barack Obama on Friday, the US right might be tempted to dust down the old freedom fries metaphors. After all, Hollande's main sticking point with ... |
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