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ORANGE - Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today – but the president failed to get a school named after him in the Orange Unified School District. The district's board voted unanimously tonight to deny a petition for a proposed charter...
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize by confronting “the hard truth” that armed conflict is sometimes both necessary and just.
The U.S. Marines were tense looking for bombs buried near a mud compound in this remote farming town in southern Afghanistan. Their new Afghan police colleagues were little help, joking around and sucking on lollipops meant for local kids.
NEW YORK - The e-book for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's "True Compass" is coming out on Christmas Day, more than three months after the hardcover release. But the paperback, thanks in part to an Oprah-inspired surge in sales, will not appear until 2011.
COPENHAGEN - European nations pressed former Eastern bloc neighbors Thursday to help create a multibillion-dollar fund for poor countries suffering the most from global warming, while key U.S. senators signaled progress on legislation in line with what President Barack Obama will pledge at the U.N. climate conference next week.
A reported deal that would enable Iowa auto dealers to re-establish business relations with General Motors and Chrysler Corporation probably won’t do any good for Iowa dealers, according to a spokesman for a state auto dealer group.
North Korea said Friday it will work with the United States to resolve unspecified differences remaining after rare high-level talks with President Barack Obama's envoy aimed at restarting international nuclear negotiations.
WASHINGTON - Democrats are muscling through a deficit-swelling spending bill, giving domestic programs their third major boost this year and awarding lawmakers with more than 5,000 home-state projects.
A soldier stands his ground. The temperature is above 100 degrees and he is wet with sweat from fear and exertion. It drips into his eyes.
With a Nobel Peace Prize in hand, President Barack Obama is returning to the grind of governing, refocusing on his top domestic priority as the Senate moves toward a pivotal moment on legislation to remake the nation's health care system.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - Northern Arizona authorities say they've resolved all reports of stranded or overdue hunters who were caught in deep snow and freezing temperatures.
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said today that it understands the need to resume the stalled international talks on ending its nuclear programs, and that it agrees to work with the United States to narrow unspecified "remaining differences."
Ousted president can leave - uras' coup-installed government says ousted leader Manuel Zelaya is free to leave the country, but there's a catch: Zelaya can't go as president, and he says he won't go as anything else.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama still has the public approval of a majority of Americans, but he finds himself governing an increasingly pessimistic country.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The mystery over whether the military knew Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan was communicating with a radical Muslim imam lapsed into finger-pointing ahead of congressional investigations looking into the Army psychiatrist’s contacts with any extremists.
December 10, 2009 - US President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama raises his glass as he makes a toast during the Nobel Banquet in Oslo. Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, uncomfortably acknowledging his role as a leader at war while insisting that conflict can be morally justified.
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