President Barack Obama discusses the economy, Senate leader Harry Reid's accomplishments and his plans to accelerate the recovery and increase employment.
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Barack Obama, the US president, has made his first major speech on immigration reform since taking office, challenging Congress to get past "political posturing" and make a bipartisan effort to pass reform. Obama spoke one month before a controversial new citizenship law takes effect in the state of Arizona, giving police broad powers to detain anyone suspected of being in the US illegally. Al Jazeera's White House Correspondent Patty Culhane reports from Washington on the rhetoric and the reality of immigration reform. (July 02, 2010)
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Discussing why more Republicans are not embracing restraint on spending, with Ryan Hecker, Contract from America and Bill Hennessy, St. Louis Tea Party founder.
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By JULIE PACE
2010-07-29T10:06:24Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is defending his administration's education policies, responding to criticism that so far they have not substantially helped minority students....
By JULIE PACE
2010-07-29T10:06:24Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is defending his administration's education policies, responding to criticism that so far they have not substantially helped minority students....
By LARRY MARGASAK
2010-07-29T07:06:23Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A jury of Rep. Charles Rangel's congressional peers is ready to publicly discuss charges of ethical misdeeds. But the political discussions outside the room will be far more significant....
By KIMBERLY DOZIER
2010-07-29T07:03:15Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Call it the big information chill, looming across the military and intelligence communities. After the massive Afghan war data spill by WikiLeaks, some veteran intelligence officers and experts are calling for a tightening of access to information and more monitoring in the spy community's lower levels....
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER
2010-07-29T07:02:21Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In 1969, Sen. Gaylord Nelson was so moved after seeing the devastation of an oil spill off the California coast near Santa Barbara that he called for a national teach-in on the environment. The resulting "Earth Day" the following year kick-started the modern environmental movement and shaped the way Americans thought about their air, water and soil....
By KIMBERLY DOZIER
2010-07-29T02:06:45Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's nominee to be chief of U.S. intelligence, James R. Clapper, is expected to be approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee when the panel meets Thursday....
By LARRY MARGASAK and LAURIE KELLMAN
2010-07-28T23:34:31Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The calls from fellow Democrats for New York Rep. Charles Rangel to resign could quickly turn from a trickle to a flood unless he can quickly negotiate a plea bargain to prevent a congressional trial on allegations of ethical misconduct....