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.

Sunday, May 04, 2008

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS
Probe of USS Cole Bombing Unravels
ADEN, Yemen -- Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in the attack have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials.
(By Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post)

Fund Gives Tenants Little Relief
(By Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen, The Washington Post)

Mortgage Survivors
On the Brink of Foreclosure, They Got Their Loans Changed -- but It Wasn't Easy
(By Nancy Trejos, The Washington Post)

Microsoft Rejects Yahoo's Price Demands, Abandons Bid
(By Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post)

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POLITICS
Sparring Over Gas Tax Continues
INDIANAPOLIS, May 3 -- Sen. Barack Obama sought to shore up support among working-class voters Saturday as he launched a closing drive to secure a pair of primary victories on Tuesday that could end Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's hopes of wresting the Democratic presidential nomination.
(By Shailagh Murray and Dan Balz, The Washington Post)

La. Democrat Wins In GOP Stronghold
Strategy to Link Victor to Obama Falls Short
(By Paul Kane, The Washington Post)

Analysts Divided on Clinton's Arab Defense Plan
(By Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post)

Obama Faces Test in Asserting His Own Brand of Patriotism
(By Alec MacGillis, The Washington Post)

Women's Voices, Women Vote: Did the Outreach Overreach?
(By Shailagh Murray, The Washington Post)

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NATION
Fighting Global Warming Block by Block
SEATTLE -- King County Executive Ron Sims has a simple test for every new public works project, building plan or government land purchase: Will it increase the region's total greenhouse-gas emissions, or reduce them?
(By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post)

Critics of Old Guard Take Black Activism Online
(By Darryl Fears, The Washington Post)

Surgery Shows Promise For Treatment of Diabetes
(By Rob Stein, The Washington Post)

Strapped Governments Revive Pension Bonds
Proceeds Would Go to Retirement Funds
(By Michael McDonald and Adam L. Cataldo, The Washington Post)

Meat That May Contain Fatal Germ Is Recalled
(By Dan Hart, The Washington Post)

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WORLD
Probe of USS Cole Bombing Unravels
ADEN, Yemen -- Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in the attack have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials.
(By Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post)

In India, Fairness Is a Growth Industry
Men Buy Skin-Lighteners in Growing Numbers as a Path to Love, Wealth
(By Emily Wax, The Washington Post)

Questions Consume Kremlin-Watchers As Putin Steps Aside
(By Peter Finn, The Washington Post)

Analysts Divided on Clinton's Arab Defense Plan
(By Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post)

U.S. Seeks Contractors To Train Iraqi Military
(By Walter Pincus, The Washington Post)

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METRO
Fund Gives Tenants Little Relief
In December 2006, with temperatures hovering at 30 degrees, tenants in a crumbling brick building on Kennedy Street NW called the city with an urgent appeal. The heat was out, and they were cold and miserable. For months, they had lodged complaints, while city inspectors documented wet ceilings, ...
(By Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen, The Washington Post)

9/11 Charity Held Up as Model Of How Best to Help Bereaved
Group With Unique Approach to Aiding Pentagon Victims Prepares to End Run
(By Philip Rucker, The Washington Post)

D.C. Conference Chief Submits Resignation
(By Yolanda Woodlee and V. Dion Haynes, The Washington Post)

Man Killed, 3 Firefighters Hurt in Apartment Blaze
(By Aaron C. Davis, The Washington Post)

Day-Labor Issue Has Cooled, but Only to Simmer
Rifts Could Shape Elections Tuesday
(By Karin Brulliard, The Washington Post)

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BUSINESS
Microsoft Rejects Yahoo's Price Demands, Abandons Bid
After weeks of negotiations and posturing, Microsoft is giving up its efforts to buy Yahoo, saying that the price the Internet firm is demanding is too high and that any hostile takeover battle would cause enough damage to make the union unappealing.
(By Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post)

Ahead of the Rise in Stocks and Taxes, Switch to a Roth
(By Martha M. Hamilton, The Washington Post)

Mortgage Survivors
On the Brink of Foreclosure, They Got Their Loans Changed -- but It Wasn't Easy
(By Nancy Trejos, The Washington Post)

Strapped Governments Revive Pension Bonds
Proceeds Would Go to Retirement Funds
(By Michael McDonald and Adam L. Cataldo, The Washington Post)

Fund Gives Tenants Little Relief
(By Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen, The Washington Post)

More Business

TECHNOLOGY
Critics of Old Guard Take Black Activism Online
The new black revolution, as singer Gil Scott-Heron famously predicted, is not being televised.
(By Darryl Fears, The Washington Post)

For Four Waldorf Fourth-Graders, The Future Is Now
(By Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post)

Fast Forward's Help File
(By Rob Pegoraro, The Washington Post)

Microsoft Rejects Yahoo's Price Demands, Abandons Bid
(By Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post)

The Future Is Now For 4th-Graders
Waldorf Team Advances in Science Contest
(By Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post)

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SPORTS
Is Horse Racing Breeding Itself to Death?
Horse racing is in a moral crisis as Eight Belles joins Barbaro as the most famous horses to fatally injure themselves at a race, a tragedy that occurs, on average, twice a day.
(By Sally Jenkins, The Washington Post)

D.C.'s Major Player
It Had Been 38 Years Since a D.C. Public School Sent Someone To the Big Leagues, Until a Wilson High Shortstop Defied the Odds
(By Dave Sheinin, The Washington Post)

Green Comes Before Gold For Families of Olympians
(By Les Carpenter, The Washington Post)

Big Brown Romps, Runner-Up Breaks Down
After Rallying to Finish 2nd, Filly Eight Belles Shatters Both Front Ankles and Is Euthanized
(By John Scheinman, The Washington Post)

West, Paul Lead Hornets Past Spurs
Hornets 101, Spurs 82
(By BRETT MARTEL, AP)

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STYLE
Correcting a Colorblind View of the Treasures of Antiquity
The statues of ancient Greece and Rome are masterpieces.
(By Blake Gopnik, The Washington Post)

Instead of Breaking Hips, They're Breaking Into Hip-Hop
(By ROBIN GIVHAN, The Washington Post)

Channel Changer
Three Years Ago, Reggie Hudlin Came To Save a Troubled BET. But Has He?
(By Teresa Wiltz, The Washington Post)

"Now here we are. We're going to be producing our own stuff."
There's Nothing Mild-Mannered About Joe Quesada's Marvel Comics
(The Washington Post)

Cereal Killer, or Blood and Fuzz
(The Washington Post)

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Food Politics
THE WHOLE world is feeling the impact of soaring food and commodity prices. A recent series in The Post reported that poor families in West Africa are selling precious livestock to buy staples, while some consumers in our own area have taken to hoarding cut-rate groceries. The surge in costs, unlike...
(The Washington Post)

Democracy, Burma-Style
It's a brave soul who votes no.
(The Washington Post)

Family Court
Special care should be taken in filling two judicial vacancies.
(The Washington Post)

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