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by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama is home.
Home, where the hard work is.
With stops in 20 nations behind him, said to be the most ambitious international itinerary of any first-year president, Obama faces the closing innings of a domestic policy year in which he insisted upon a ...
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by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin was box office on FOX News this week - handing Sean Hannity one of his highest-rated shows.
Someone else drew a crowd at FOX this week, too: President Barack Obama.
While Hannity's audience of more than 4 million viewers with the author of Going Rogue ...
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by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama says he "probably won't'' be reading Sarah Palin's Going Rogue , so radio's Mark Levin asked Palin: Has she considered sending him the TelePrompTer edition?
"You know what,'' Palin replied, laughing, "when I heard that, though, I thought, good, at a ...
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by Mark Silva
The White House is pushing back on the alleged "fiction'' of jobs created or saved under the $787-billion federal timulus bill - particularly what it views as the fiction surrounding reports that Recovery.gov, the official online accounting of where all the money is going, ...
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by Mark Silva The House's health care bill,
we were reminded, weighed in at over 20 pounds.
The Senate's bill, we're told, is bigger than War and Peace . Both of them also offer health care for millions of Americans uninsured. And ...
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Americans should 'rebel:' Hatch on health
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by Mark Silva FOX has done it again,
and this time, once again, FOX says its misplay
of the wrong crowd video was another regrettable mistake. Today, FOX News host Gregg Jarrett was talking about Republican Sarah Palin's book tour and the ...
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FOX rolls wrong tape, heads may roll
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, with 20 nations in his passport this year, stepped on to the Great Wall of China this week.
"It gives you a perspective on a lot of day to day things that don't amount to much...It's majestic,'' the president said . "It reminds you of the sweep of ...
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by Mark Silva Sarah Palin, author of Going
Rogue , says the Army psychiatrist, a Muslim, accused
of killing 13 and wounding 29 at Fort Hood, Texas, should have been "profiled'' before the shootings. " I certainly do,'' Palin says in an ...
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Palin: Fort Hood 'profile' shooter ignored
by Michael Muskal and Mark Silva
Sen. Robert C. Byrd's tenure as the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history was marked today with praise but also questions about the senator's health.
"I look forward to serving you for the next 56 years and 320 days," the ninth-term Democratic ...
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by Michael Muskal
Atty. Gen. Eric Holder today defended the Obama administration's decision to try professed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court and denied the move would give Mohammed a propaganda forum.
"At the end of the day, it was clear to me that the venue ...
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by Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who made
closing of the U.S. military-run prison at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, within one year a priority on Day One of his presidency, allows that January's deadline for closure of the controversial facility will ...
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Obama: Guantanamo 'next year'
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by Mark Silva As people line up around
the block in Grand Rapids for the debut of
Sarah Palin's national book tour, the popular author will probably have to count one reader out: President Barack Obama. "Obviously, Sarah Palin has ...
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Obama: Palin's book -- 'Probably not'
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by Mark Silva President Barack Obama, "very close''
to a decision about deploying troops in Afghanistan -
a strategy that must provide for an "endgame'' as well as a way forward - maintains that he is "absolutely confident'' about getting a ...
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Obama: 'History will bear' him out, or not
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by Mark Silva A lot of questions have
been posed in the health-care debate, with a lot
of nuance: Americans have been asked if they approve of the president's handling of the issue, or congressional handling of the issue, if they think reform ...
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Americans favor public health option
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by Mark Silva Sarah Palin, embarking on a
natonal book tour with her Going Rogue memoirs, has
one word for the way that President Barack Obama is handling the economy: "Backassward.'' That's how the former governor of Alaska and ...
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Palin: Obama 'backassward' on economy
by Richard Simon
The Democratic-controlled Senate today thwarted an effort to block spending for upgrading facilities in the United States for housing prisoners transferred from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a move that Illinois officials feared could have complicated efforts to place detainees at a ...
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by Mark Silva and updated The Obama administration
promised "transparency'' in the accounting of that $787 billion
in economic stimulus spending. Jonathan Karl and his eagle-eyed colleagues at ABC News saw right through it: In the case ...
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Arizona: 86 districts created or saved
by Mark Silva
In New York, which suffered the most shocking brunt of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, there is a certain division of opinion over playing host to a criminal trial for the mastermind of the attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad , and some accomplices.
Forty-five ...
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by Mark Silva
The president of the United States is a long way from home, but there's nothing like a state dinner in the Great Hall of the People to lift one's spirits.
There was no immediate word on what they were serving at the head table in Beijing, but the president ...
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by Mark Silva
FOX News had to go to China to get President Barack Obama.
When the traveling president sits for a round robin of television news interviews in Beijing, FOX's Major Garrett says he'll be in the loop of five that get 10 minutes apiece with the president.
Garrett ...
