Topic - Barack Obama

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  Critics slam Obama's handling of Arab Spring

  Growing instability from Syria to Egypt highlights the Obama administration's failure to develop a consistent strategy for promoting democracy in the wake of popular uprisings in the region, analysts say.

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  FEMA has plan to waive debts of disaster victims

  The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Wednesday that it is rolling out a plan to waive debts for many victims of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters who may have mistakenly received millions of dollars in aid.

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  Congress tries to give Obama line-item veto

  The Republican-led House is trying Wednesday to give President Obama the line-item veto, a constitutionally questionable power over the purse that has been sought by both Republican and Democratic presidents.

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  U.S. searches for strategy to halt Syria violence

  The Obama administration says it is not considering invading Syria or arming its rebels to remove President Bashar Assad from power. Diplomatic efforts at the U.N. have collapsed.

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  Obama edges ahead of Romney in Va. in new poll

  President Obama has moved ahead of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Virginia for the first time in Quinnipiac University's polling, according to a survey released Wednesday.

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  Boehner: Congress will undo contraception rule

  House Speaker John A. Boehner said Wednesday the House already is working on legislation to undo President Obama's new health-care rule forcing religious institutions to provide insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization and other procedures they may morally object to.

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  House GOP introduces its insider trading bill

  House Republicans have introduced their version of a bill to ban insider trading by thousands of federal officials, and have added provisions to bar lawmakers convicted of a felony from collecting their government pensions.

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  28 more airports will test lower-hassle screening

  A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for certain travelers is being expanded to 28 more major U.S. airports, the government said Wednesday.

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  Santorum: I won and raised about $250K Tuesday night

  Resurgent Rick Santorum said his sweep of three GOP contests earned his shoestring campaign $250,000 overnight, cash he needs to take his upstart bid for the Republican presidential nomination to Mitt Romney's turf.

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  New U.S. sanctions on Iran aim to head off Israel

  Additional U.S. sanctions on Iran are more significant for their timing than their immediate effect on Iran's economy, coming as the United States and its allies are arguing that Israel should hold off on any military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities to allow more time for sanctions to work.

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  Clint Eastwood: 'I am certainly not affiliated with Obama'

  Clint Eastwood is setting the record straight on the Chrysler Super Bowl ad and claims in the liberal blogosphere and elsewhere that it was an implicit endorsement of President Obama and his decision to support the bailout of the U.S. auto industry.

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  Iran calls new U.S. sanctions 'psychological war'

  Iran has dismissed the new U.S. sanctions on Tehran, with the Foreign Ministry spokesman saying Tuesday they are part of a "psychological war" meant to sow discontent among Iranians and insisting the measures would not halt the country's nuclear program.

• Iran calls new U.S. sanctions a strategy to sow discontent

  Iran on Tuesday dismissed new U.S. sanctions, saying they are part of a "psychological war" meant to sow discontent among Iranians and insisting they would not halt the country's nuclear program.

• HURT: Maybe Mitt Romney might just be enough

  As former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld might say, you have to go into the general election with the candidate you have, not the candidate you might want or wish to have at a later time.

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  Obama to seek more Alzheimer's research money

  The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer's research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the aging baby-boom generation.

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