Barack Obama
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American troops sent to help battle Lord's Resistance Army
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President Obama is dispatching roughly 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help battle the notorious Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda and southern Sudan.
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Obama, Saudi king discuss alleged Iranian plot
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Barack Obama and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah have discussed a foiled plot allegedly masterminded by Iran to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington.
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Brian Harrison, Solyndra CEO, resigns amidst bankruptcy proceedings
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The SEO of a maligned California solar energy company, which received hundreds of millions of dollars in government loan guarantees, resigned last week amidst the company's bankruptcy proceedings.
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Senate shuts down Obama's jobs bill
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Senate Republicans voted Tuesday night to kill the jobs package the president had spent weeks campaigning for.
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Senate to vote on Obama's jobs bill
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President Barack Obama's jobs bill, facing a critical test in the Senate, appears likely to fail because Republicans oppose its spending components and its tax surcharge on millionaires.
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Obama visits wounded troops in Bethesda
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President Obama is spending time with wounded service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda.
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Obama pushes jobs bill ahead of Senate vote
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President Barack Obama is pushing in his weekly radio and Internet address for Senate passage of his nearly $450 billion jobs bill as senators prepare to vote Tuesday on moving to debate on the measure.
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President Barack Obama challenges Republicans to pass jobs bill
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Defiant and frustrated, President Barack Obama aggressively challenged Republicans Thursday to get behind his jobs plan or explain why not.
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Anwar al-Awlaki killed: Mixed reaction at Falls Church mosque
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At the Falls Church mosque where Anwar al-Awlaki preached a decade ago, there were few tears over his death. But some found the way he was killed to be un-American.
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Fight over health care law heads to Supreme Court
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An appeals court struck down a key provision in the Obama administration's health care overhaul, and now the administration is fighting back, taking their appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Despite Solyndra debacle, Obama admin approves solar loans worth $1B
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The Energy Department has approved two loan guarantees under the same program that guaranteed loans worth more than $500 million to the now bankrupt solar-panel maker Solyndra.
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A tax on airline tickets?
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President Barack Obama is proposing a tax on airline tickets to help reduce the federal deficit.
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'My favorite subject was basketball,' Obama admits to Banneker HS students
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President Barack Obama is encouraging students to work hard in their classes, saying the country is counting on them.
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Al Sharpton to lead march in Washington
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The Rev. Al Sharpton says he will lead a march in Washington next month in support of President Barack Obama's jobs plan - and he dismisses blacks who criticize Obama over high black unemployment.
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D.C. a major disaster site after Hurricane Irene, Obama says
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President Barack Obama declared the District as the site of a major disaster due to damage caused by Hurricane Irene.
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Obama urges Congress to pass jobs bill
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday tried to keep pressure on Congress to consider his nearly $450 billion jobs bill.
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House shoots down spending bill
A stopgap spending bill to keep the government funded past Sept. 30 was upended in the House late Wednesday when Democrats pulled back their support in protest of cuts made to offset disaster aid in the package.
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Obama making final push to stop Palestinian bid for statehood at UN
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Scrambling to head off a diplomatic clash, President Barack Obama will publicly push for the Palestinians to drop a statehood bid when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.
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