Barack Obama

Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. (born in Nyanza Province, Kenya) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas). Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party.

Obama grew up in culturally diverse surroundings. He spent most of his childhood in the majority-minority U.S. state of Hawaii and lived for four years in Indonesia. Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention while still an Illinois state legislator. Since announcing his candidacy in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War and implementing universal health care as campaign themes.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Obama co-sponsored the enactment of conventional weapons control and transparency legislation, and made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Obama's parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. His father went to Harvard University to pursue Ph.D. studies, then returned to Kenya, where he died in an auto accident when the younger Obama was twenty-one years old.

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS
As British Leave, Basra Deteriorates
As British forces pull back from Basra in southern Iraq, Shiite militias there have escalated a violent battle against each other for political supremacy and control over oil resources, deepening concerns among some U.S. officials in Baghdad that elements of Iraq's Shiite-dominated national gover...
(By Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. Ricks, The Washington Post)

Fundraisers Tap Those Who Can't Say No
'Bundlers' Look to Associates, Employees for Campaign Cash
(By Matthew Mosk, The Washington Post)

Touring Israel's Barrier With Its Main Designer
(By Scott Wilson, The Washington Post)

At Odds Over Immigrant Assimilation
Whether the U.S. Government Should Offer Encouragement Is Debated
(By Karin Brulliard, The Washington Post)

Md. Raids a Part Of International Car Theft Bust
9 Arrested in Connection With Alleged Export Ring
(By Candace Rondeaux, The Washington Post)

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POLITICS
Clinton's Foreign Policy Balancing Act
While preparing to give a major critique of the war in Iraq last month, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton read a draft of the speech and added a few lines of her own.
(By Anne E. Kornblut, The Washington Post)

Fundraisers Tap Those Who Can't Say No
'Bundlers' Look to Associates, Employees for Campaign Cash
(By Matthew Mosk, The Washington Post)

House Panel Suspends Its Probe Of Jefferson
(By Paul Kane, The Washington Post)

Edwards Makes Courting Labor a Key Strategy in Bid for Nomination
Backing Meant Little for 2004 Candidates
(By Dan Balz, The Washington Post)

As British Leave, Basra Deteriorates
Violence Rises in Shiite City Once Called a Success Story
(By Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. Ricks, The Washington Post)

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NATION
Same Agencies to Run, Oversee Surveillance Program
The Bush administration plans to leave oversight of its expanded foreign eavesdropping program to the same government officials who supervise the surveillance activities and to the intelligence personnel who carry them out, senior government officials said yesterday.
(By Walter Pincus, The Washington Post)

Utah Mine Cave-In Traps Six
Miners' Condition Unknown as Initial Rescue Attempt Fails
(By Paul Foy, The Washington Post)

FBI Bows to Modern Realities, Eases Rules on Past Drug Use
Policy Change Comes as Agency Struggles to Fill Openings
(By Dan Eggen, The Washington Post)

One Year Out From Olympics, A Test of Openness in Beijing
(By Edward Cody, The Washington Post)

Bush Urges Karzai to Be More Wary Of Iran
(By Peter Baker, The Washington Post)

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WORLD
As British Leave, Basra Deteriorates
As British forces pull back from Basra in southern Iraq, Shiite militias there have escalated a violent battle against each other for political supremacy and control over oil resources, deepening concerns among some U.S. officials in Baghdad that elements of Iraq's Shiite-dominated national gover...
(By Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. Ricks, The Washington Post)

One Year Out From Olympics, A Test of Openness in Beijing
(By Edward Cody, The Washington Post)

Touring Israel's Barrier With Its Main Designer
(By Scott Wilson, The Washington Post)

Bush Urges Karzai to Be More Wary Of Iran
(By Peter Baker, The Washington Post)

Masterpieces Nabbed in French Art Heist
In Brazen 10 Minutes At Museum, Thieves Grab Monet, 3 Others
(By Molly Moore, The Washington Post)

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METRO
Md. Raids a Part Of International Car Theft Bust
Authorities staged three raids in suburban Maryland yesterday in an effort to break up a major East Coast car-theft ring that allegedly stole more than 1,000 luxury vehicles in the past year and shipped them to West Africa and the Middle East.
(By Candace Rondeaux, The Washington Post)

Housing Market Pounding Fairfax
Slipping Revenue Could Put Shortfall At $120 Million
(By Kirstin Downey and Maria Glod, The Washington Post)

Even if Business Is Tainted by Raid, Customers Say, the Chicken Isn't
(By Daniel de Vise, The Washington Post)

At Odds Over Immigrant Assimilation
Whether the U.S. Government Should Offer Encouragement Is Debated
(By Karin Brulliard, The Washington Post)

Toward the Heavens
Far From the Lights of the City, Devotees Gaze in Reverence
(By Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post)

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BUSINESS
Chrysler Hires A Fix-It Man
Will Robert L. Nardelli come to be known as the Jack Welch of the American auto industry or just another outsider run off the road in Detroit?
(By Sholnn Freeman, The Washington Post)

The Journal, in the Family but Out of Control
(By Allan Sloan, The Washington Post)

Financial Futures
(Martha M. Hamilton, washingtonpost.com)

Flight Delays in June Were Among Worst on Record, Government Says
(By Xiyun Yang, The Washington Post)

All the News That Seemed Unfit to Print
(By Peter Carlson, The Washington Post)

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TECHNOLOGY
A Slower But Steady Venture Capital Flow
Venture capitalists invested less in Washington area businesses in the quarter ended in June than in the second quarter last year, when three large deals pushed the total value of investments sharply higher.
(By Cecilia Kang, The Washington Post)

Jury Verdict Overturned In Microsoft Patent Case
(By Jeff St. Onge, The Washington Post)

Scene 1, Double Take 2
DirecTV Re-creates Movie Moments for Attention-Getting Ads
(By Paul Farhi, The Washington Post)

Sweet Salve
Could Honey, an Ancient Remedy, Make a Comeback in Contemporary Wound Care?
(By Eric Frederick Trump, The Washington Post)

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SPORTS
Plenty of Holes In Pockets Of Resistance
Commissioner Bud Selig's continuing indifference to Barry Bonds's pursuit of Hank Aaron's career home record is unfair to Bonds -- and baseball.
(By Michael Wilbon, The Washington Post)

Throwing Downfield Is Redskin Offense's Antidote
(By Jason La Canfora, The Washington Post)

Terps' Leading Question
Who Will Start at QB -- Steffy, Portis or Turner? -- Dominates Day One
(By Marc Carig, The Washington Post)

At Indiana, Football Off to Somber Start
Hoeppner's Death Makes Work Tough
(By Eric Prisbell, The Washington Post)

Torn Quadriceps Lands Soriano on DL
(The Washington Post)

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STYLE
Scene 1, Double Take 2
Wait a second. Isn't that Sigourney Weaver in her signature role as Lt. Ripley in the movie "Aliens," kicking alien butt while talking about . . . satellite TV service . . . in a new TV commercial?
(By Paul Farhi, The Washington Post)

The Reliable Source
(By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts, The Washington Post)

Reality Chief Mike Darnell Let Fox Stew, But Renewed
(By Lisa de Moraes, The Washington Post)

All the News That Seemed Unfit to Print
(By Peter Carlson, The Washington Post)

Fight Brews Over 'Earth' Manuscript
(By Maryclaire Dale, The Washington Post)

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LIVE DISCUSSIONS
Freedom Rock
Washington Post music critic J. Freedom du Lac is online every Tuesday at 2 p.m. ET to talk about the latest on the music scene: alternative, country, alt-country, pop, hyphy, harp-rock, reggae, reggaeton, R and B and whatever it is that Dan Deacon does.
(J. Freedom du Lac, washingtonpost.com)

D.C., Maryland and Virginia Politics
D.C., Maryland and Virginia Politics
(Mark Plotkin, washingtonpost.com)

Lean Plate Club
Talk About Nutrition and Health
(Sally Squires, washingtonpost.com)

Opinion Focus
(Eugene Robinson, washingtonpost.com)

The War Over the War
(Todd C. Helmus, washingtonpost.com)

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EDITORIALS
A Vote for 'No Child'
BLAMING NO Child Left Behind for failures of public education seems to be in vogue these days. The Bush administration act, which mandates measurement of public school performance, is a favorite whipping boy of interest groups and the politicians who cater to them. So it was refreshing to hear a ...
(The Washington Post)

DNA Testing
Safeguards for expanding Maryland's DNA database
(The Washington Post)

Oliver W. Hill
A life of service to Virginia -- and America
(The Washington Post)

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