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White House aides exulted that perfectly choreographed pictures of this moment would make front pages around the world. Yet an experience Obama declared to be “magical” turned sour as he returned home to a spreading domestic revolt that is fanning Democratic...
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State officials say that unemployment rates for minority groups are higher than the overall rate, but say the sample sizes are too small to calculate specific numbers. “We’re in such a state that we need to think about emergency measures to prevent us...
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In the argument between the White House and Fox News over whether the cable channel is a conservative mouthpiece, you would think that Fox's viewers would have its back...In an Oct. 29 Pew Research Center survey, TV-news viewers named Fox the most ideological...
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The White House unleashed a shocking display of… “dismay.” We are dismayed at the Jerusalem Planning Committee’s decision to move forward on the approval process for the expansion of Gilo in Jerusalem. Thankfully, AP’s Matt Lee wasn’t as obliging as...
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The one highly visible success of the stimulus bill has been the cash-for-clunkers program. It induced a boom in vehicle sales this summer that clearly would not have happened otherwise. The rest of the stimulus bill has created a lot of jobs 700,000...
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Ban Deplores Israeli Decision To Expand Jerusalem Settlement New York, Nov 17 2009 7:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deplored the Israeli Government's decision today to expand Jerusalem’s Gilo settlement, stressing that it was built on Palestinian...
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And the number of children who sometimes were outright hungry rose from nearly 700,000 to almost 1.1 million. Among people of of all ages, nearly 15 percent last year did not consistently have adequate food, compared with about 11 percent in 2007, the...
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That, in turn, could make it impossible for Obama to move his agenda forward in the latter half of his first term. The gloomy statistics are “a wake-up call,” according to Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. ...
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President Barack Obama Friday prepared to sign legislation to help boost the sagging U.S. economy and to visit some of the country's wounded soldiers. The White House said Obama was to sign the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009,...
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President Obama on Monday said his administration has saved the U.S. economy from collapse, but he was less certain about where to go next. "If somebody can show me a strategy that's going to work, then we are happy to consider it," the president said...
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