Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:25 PM EST
President Barack Obama on Tuesday dubbed the St. Louis Cardinals the "greatest comeback team in the history of baseball" thanks to their thrilling late-season charge into the playoffs and death-defying, seven-game triumph in last November's World Series.
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Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:19 PM EDT
In a fiery summons to an important voting bloc, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and "put on your marching shoes" to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.
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Sat Aug 20, 2011 6:43 PM EDT
It's a polite faceoff of spies vs. diplomats, as the Obama administration debates how aggressively to pursue Libya's vast weapons stores, including tons of caustic mustard agent and thousands of anti-aircraft rockets that experts fear could fall into the hands of terrorists or Libyan loyalists.
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Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:04 PM EDT
President Barack Obama is keeping tabs on preparations for Hurricane Irene as his family's Martha's Vineyard vacation nears its end.
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Sat Aug 6, 2011 4:49 PM EDT
President Barack Obama sought to distance himself Saturday from the bad news of the nation's first-ever credit-rating downgrade, but lawmakers and presidential candidates showed no such reticence — trading salvos over who's at fault and why.
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Sat Aug 6, 2011 10:17 AM EDT
President Barack Obama is mourning the deaths of 31 U.S. special operations troops in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
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Wed Aug 3, 2011 12:48 PM EDT
What to do now that the debt crisis is over?
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Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:08 AM EDT
Last October, the Obama administration announced plans to install solar panels on the roof of the White House by the spring of this year, returning the power of the sun to the pinnacle of prominence a quarter-century after Jimmy Carter's pioneering system was taken down.
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Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:03 PM EDT
With gas prices climbing and little relief in sight, President Barack Obama is scrambling to get ahead of the latest potential obstacle to his re-election bid, even as Republicans are making plans to exploit the issue.
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Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:01 AM EDT
President Barack Obama says one answer to high gasoline prices is to spend money developing renewable energy sources.
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Mon Apr 4, 2011 3:01 AM EDT
The West Wing of the White House is vanishing.
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Sat Feb 5, 2011 12:45 PM EST
The Obama administration is welcoming word that President Hosni Mubarak's son has quit his role in Egypt's ruling party.
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Fri Dec 17, 2010 11:17 AM EST
Usually, big-name authors plug their books on a nationwide book tour. President Barack Obama took a lower-key approach Friday, reading selections from his new children's book to a group of delighted second-graders in suburban Virginia.
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Sat Nov 13, 2010 4:32 AM EST
When you're in the Far East talking to a colleague from Down Under, if you're not careful, it can be a case of thanks, but no thanks.
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Tue Nov 2, 2010 6:44 PM EDT
Scrapping for votes to the end, President Barack Obama campaigned from behind his Oval Office desk Tuesday, dialing in to urban radio programs in places with competitive races and urging supporters to get to the polls before they closed.
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Wed Oct 6, 2010 3:13 AM EDT
In a ceremony that mixed pain, pride and determination, President Barack Obama on Wednesday awarded the Medal of Honor to a young Army Green Beret who saved his patrol by holding off a Taliban ambush in a snowy Afghan valley two winters ago.
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:16 PM EDT
President Barack Obama implored black voters on Saturday to rekindle the passion they felt for his groundbreaking campaign and turn out in force this fall to repel Republicans who are ready to "turn back the clock."
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:31 PM EDT
President Barack Obama came out swinging against Republicans in a fiery campaign-season speech to black lawmakers Saturday night, making an urgent appeal for the kind of grassroots organizing that propelled the civil rights movement.
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:07 PM EDT
President Barack Obama is coming out fighting against his Republican foes with strong words in a political speech to black lawmakers.
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:53 PM EDT
President Barack Obama is hoping that black voters don't stand on the sidelines when Democrats need all the election help they can get this year.
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:34 PM EDT
President Barack Obama wants black voters to turn out in force this fall, even though there are nagging doubts about his commitment and two prominent black lawmakers are facing ethics trials.
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Tue Sep 7, 2010 5:25 PM EDT
No need for a rewrite — or a reweave — of the new rug in the Oval Office.
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:05 AM EDT
When President Barack Obama addresses the nation on Iraq Tuesday night, his Oval Office setting will be sporting a new look — and one that pays homage to Martin Luther King Jr. and four previous presidents.
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Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:10 AM EDT
For a vacationing President Barack Obama, it seems all produce — like politics — is local.
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Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:36 AM EDT
The U.S. troop drawdown in Iraq is a "truly remarkable achievement" and demonstrates President Barack Obama's commitment to responsibly ending the drawn-out conflict, the White House said Tuesday.
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