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Google has reserved one of its valuable ad spaces on Google Image Search to explain why an offensive image of Michelle Obama appears as the first result for searches on her name.
As President Barack Obama gets ready to announce a redrawn battle plan for Afghanistan, lawmakers are weighing in on the expected large increase in U.S. forces there.
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s climate-change legislation faces a renewed fight in the Senate as he prepares to hold talks in Washington today with President Barack Obama on global warming.
President Obama is expected to announce his decision on troop levels in Afghanistan this week. When the president takes the podium at West Point on Tuesday, he'll draw not only from America's experience at war in Afghanistan, but from the Soviet Union's as well. Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution talks to guest host Robert Smith about the president's deliberations. Riedel served as a CIA ...
As President Barack Obama prepares to make the case for sending more troops to Afghanistan, some allies are urging him to return to a line of argument little heard since the Bush years: the United States has a moral obligation to protect the Afghan people, particularly women, from the Taliban.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is now open for Christmas. First lady Michelle Obama, along with daughters Malia and Sasha, received the official White House Christmas tree on Friday: an 18½-foot Douglas fir delivered from a farm in Shepherdstown, W.Va., by traditional horse-drawn carriage.
Obama left the White House on Saturday afternoon with first lady Michelle daughters Malia and Sasha and mother-in-law Marian Robinson.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Pastor Rick Warren, who delivered the invocation at U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration, says he disagrees with him on abortion.
Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama must show how more U.S. combat troops will speed the build-up of the Afghan army to generate Democratic support for his new war strategy in Afghanistan, Senator Carl Levin said.
French mag and couture Bible Elle magazine honored Michelle Obama with first place in the category of "political chic" first ladies in its annual Best Dressed list released this week.
For most of the past week, when someone typed "Michelle Obama" in the popular search engine Google, one of the first images that came up was a picture of the American first lady altered to resemble a monkey.
theodp writes "CNN reports that for most of the past week, when someone did a Google image search for 'Michelle Obama,' one of the first images that came up was a picture of the First Lady altered to resemble a monkey. After being hit with a firestorm of criticism over the episode, Google first banned the site that posted the photo, saying it could spread malware. Then, when the image appeared ...
An offensive caricature of Michelle Obama that was the top Google Image Search result for her name has been removed by the site owner, and is therefore dropping from search results.
San Francisco -- Google Inc. is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the first lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site.
The top-ranked result for U.S. first lady Michelle Obama on Google's image search engine Thursday was a racist caricature that depicted her with the face of a chimpanzee, just below a link to a suggested Google search for the terms "Michelle Obama Monkey."
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the first lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site.
