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internet marketing WASHINGTON (AP) â?? President Barack Obama’s push to overhaul health care needs Republican votes, lawmakers from both parties say. Democratic and GOP officials acknowledged Sunday that Obama’s ambitious plan would not pass without the aid of a doubtful GOP, whose members are almost united against the White House effort. “Look, there...
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Barack Obama’s strategy for rejuvenating Arab-Israeli peace talks is running into resistance from Saudi Arabia, which has rebuffed the American leader’s appeals for the influential Middle East ally to play a more active role in his plans. Saudi officials have expressed skepticism about Obama’s attempts to secure concessions from...
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DEFENCE Secretary Robert Gates heads to the Middle East today as part of a broader diplomatic push by President Barack Obama to breathe life into faltering peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, US officials said. Gates’ talks in Israel and Jordan coincide with high-level diplomatic visits the same week by the US envoy...
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, citing a new White House study suggesting that small businesses pay far more per employee for health insurance than big companies, said Saturday that the disparity is “unsustainable — it’s unacceptable.” “And it’s going to change when I sign health insurance reform into law,” Obama said in his weekly...
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RALEIGH — President Barack Obama’s trip to Raleigh on Wednesday is the latest indication of an intense, and unusual, political battle in the middle of summer in North Carolina — the fight over health-care reform. Rallies, phone banks and door-to-door canvassing are under way, TV commercials blast on the airwaves, and petitions appear beside...
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CHARLES BABINGTON Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) â?? President Barack Obama’s summary of the furor over a black Harvard professor’s arrest was so understated, and perhaps obvious, that it barely rose above the cable-news driven din. “Race is still a troubling aspect of our society,” the nation’s first black president said Friday, as he...
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ANNE GEARAN AP National Security Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) â?? The Obama administration is dispatching four of its most senior foreign policy and security figures to Israel this coming week with the same message on two open questions causing friction between the close allies: Don’t do it. Taking a firmer line with Israel than the...
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Sort it out over booze, the old American way, right? Obama offered both Henry Louis Gates and the cop who arrested him to the White House for a beer. Gates – the Ivy Leauge African American studies scholar – accepted. Per the New York Post: Gates told the Boston Globe in an e-mail late Friday that...
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