International Business Times
| Dec 24, 2012
Thousands of Americans have signed a petition, which has already been sent to President Obama, calling for Brit Piers Morgan to be deported after he criticized the country's gun laws on his CNN program. "You're an unbelievably studpid man, aren't ...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 18, 2012
In a major breakthrough in gun control, President Obama is supporting efforts in Congress to reinstate an assault weapons ban in the wake of the Newtown massacre. The president would also back legislation to close the gun show loophole, which allo...
The Wall Street Journal
| Dec 18, 2012
A testy House Speaker John Boehner told the media it's time to "go to Plan B" on fiscal cliff negotiations, and stick to the GOP offer to boost taxes only on those earning $1 million dollars or more before the deadline runs out. There's no more ti...
Newsy
| Dec 17, 2012
They're getting closer, and might be very near a deal. President Obama has made a counter offer in fiscal cliff negotiations after House Speaker John Boehner said he would agree to boosting taxes on those earning a million dollars a year. Obama, w...
The Wall Street Journal
| Dec 16, 2012
President Barack Obama vowed yesterday in Newtown to take action to prevent another massacre, strongly indicating he's going to fight to boost gun control. "We can't tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end," said the president, referring t...
Newsy
| Dec 16, 2012
House Speaker John Boehner is ready to accept a tax hike on Americans making a million bucks a year and to extend the federal loan cap if President Obama agrees to $1 trillion in cuts, including slices to Medicare. So far, Dems aren't keen on the ...
Associated Press
| Dec 16, 2012
In a moving appearance today in Newtown, President Barack Obama hailed the hero school staffers who tried to save lives with their own in the school massacre, responding "as we all hope we might respond in such terrifying circumstances: with coura...
Euronews
| Dec 16, 2012
President Obama announced he will hold a private vigil in Newtown, Connecticut to pay homage after an elementary school shooting claimed 28 lives, 20 of them children. Thousands of people from neighboring states are making the trip to share some o...
Whitehouse.gov
| Dec 14, 2012
A visibly emotional President Obama delivers a statement on today's shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 13, 2012
United States UN ambassador Susan Rice has taken herself out of the running to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Comments she made after the Benghazi attack made her a target for Republican attacks and a "huge political liability for ...
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...three profoundly important unintended consequences: --Unlike the victors of the Gulf War in 1991, none of the 2.2 million American soldiers, sai...
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...of suspects both here and abroad. Meanwhile, President Obama has stepped up the use of unmanned drones against suspected terrorists abroad, not ...
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...by HBCUs to the working and middle-class, populations he name-checked in his speech as beneficiaries of his advocacy for "an America where every...
Barack Hussein Obama II (/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama served as a U.S. Senator representing the state of Illinois from January 2005 to November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
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