DUBLIN — He downed a pint of Guinness with a distant cousin and checked out centuries-old parish records tracing his family to Ireland. From the tiny village of Moneygall to a huge, cheering crowd in Dublin, President Barack Obama opened his four-nation trip through Europe on Monday with an unlikely homecoming far removed from the
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WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) — A big portion of President Obama’s wealth is invested in federal debt, according to a financial disclosure form released Monday. The president and First Lady Michelle Obama had assets valued between $2.8 million and $11.8 million in 2011. Read More…
Watch out Iron Man, there’s a new, macho action figure in town: the Rambama. The bicep-bulging figurine was released Wednesday as an ode to President Obama, who authorized the SEALS to kill Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden on May 1. The Rambo-style Obama is armed with an M1-A4 rifle and is dressed in military
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Washington (CNN) — Despite mounting pressure from some lawmakers and dissent within the ranks of his top advisers, President Barack Obama decided not to release photos of Osama bin Laden’s dead body, a White House spokesman said Wednesday. “It is not in our national security interest … to allow these images to become icons to
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President Barack Obama has frequently called education the most important civil rights issue of our generation. “There’s a reason the story of the civil rights movement was written in our schools,” he said at the 2009 NAACP convention, citing Brown v. Board of Education and the Little Rock Nine. “It’s because there is no stronger
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President Barack Obama unveiled his long-awaited deficit reduction plan Wednesday, calling for a mix of spending reductions and tax hikes that the White House claims would cut federal deficits by $4 trillion over the next 12 years without gutting popular programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Obama’s plan includes a repeal of the Bush-era tax
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When talk show queen Oprah Winfrey announced she was publicly supporting Barack Obama for president back in 2008, she shocked many TV insiders who had always thought it best for talk show hosts to keep their political views to themselves. Now as the 2012 election process has officially begun, sources tell me this time around
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President Obama’s sister discusses her brother’s “healthy dose of pragmatism” during his first term.
