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  • Palin: "I invite all my friends to watch" FOX's Glenn Beck

    McClatchy Newspapers – Wed Aug 26, 4:28 pm ET  

    Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is jumping into the fray over FOX News talk show host Glenn Beck, whose assertion last month that President Barack Obama is "a racist" led to a boycott of the companies advertising on his show, and ultimately, led some to drop their sponsorship of his show. (Although many have simply shifted advertising to other time slots on Fox, Politico reports.) Full Story »

  • President Obama, woken early with the news, speaks of Kennedy's passing

    McClatchy Newspapers – Wed Aug 26, 10:50 am ET  

    An aide woke the president at 2 a.m. to tell him Sen. Ted Kennedy was dead, and, according to a spokesman, the president spoke with Kennedy's widow about 25 minutes later. Full Story »

  • Group suspends TV ads criticizing Obama health care plan

    McClatchy Newspapers – Wed Aug 26, 10:35 am ET  

    A group opposing President Obama’s health care proposals on Wednesday suspended a TV ad campaign it was running in Boston and on Martha’s Vineyard, out of deference to the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy. Full Story »

  • Kennedy on Catholic faith and politics

    McClatchy Newspapers – Wed Aug 26, 10:30 am ET  

    They were the most prominent political family of a half century, the family of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. They also were the most prominent Roman Catholic family in the country, with John F. Kennedy the first and only Catholic ever elected to the presidency. Full Story »

  • President Obama's statement on Sen. Ted Kennedy

    McClatchy Newspapers – Wed Aug 26, 5:42 am ET  

    Michelle and I were heartbroken to learn this morning of the death of our dear friend, Senator Ted Kennedy. Full Story »

  • Fidel Castro says "racist right" hates Obama because he's black

    McClatchy Newspapers – Tue Aug 25, 12:13 pm ET  

    News reports say that�former Cuban president Fidel Castro is expressing sympathy for President Barack�Obama, quoting Castro as writing that "the racist right" will do everything it can to defeat Obama. Full Story »

  • What the IG recommended about CIA interrogations

    McClatchy Newspapers – Mon Aug 24, 3:57 pm ET  

    Actually, we don't get to know. The CIA Inspector General, in his May 2004 assessment of the CIA's secret detention program, made 10 recommendations. But every one of them is blacked out in the version of the report released Monday by the Obama administration. Full Story »

  • Obamas start island vacation

    McClatchy Newspapers – Sun Aug 23, 5:24 pm ET  

    President Obama and the First Family arrived on Martha’s Vineyard Sunday afternoon for the storm-delayed start of their week-long vacation. Full Story »

  • Florida governor credits God with sparing the state from hurricanes

    McClatchy Newspapers – Fri Aug 21, 5:14 pm ET  

    Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said�Friday that Florida has been hurricane free thanks to prayer notes he placed on the Western Wall in Jerusalem. He�said every year he's placed them there or has asked someone else to do it. Full Story »

  • White House: Libyan cheers for terrorist "disgusting"

    McClatchy Newspapers – Fri Aug 21, 2:36 pm ET  

    President Obama and aides Friday criticized the hero’s welcome given in Libya to Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi, who was convicted in the 1988 terrorist bombing of a Pan Am flight over Scotland that killed 270. Full Story »

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