At a campaign fundraiser for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, President Obama faced a group of hecklers demanding to know what he was doing to get rid of the "don't ask don't tell" policy that prevents gays from serving openly in the military. (April 19)
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April 02, 2010 — A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek care "elsewhere." "I'm not turning anybody away — that would be unethical," Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican opposed to the health plan, told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday. "But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it."
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The wrangling over who will lead the country could now take months and the government will certainly experience a severe paralysis. But will the resulting vacuum ignite further violence? How can the current situation be resolved, will Allawi become Iraq's next prime minister and will Tehran decide Iraq's fate?
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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....