Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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.

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Memo: Laws Didn't Apply to Interrogators The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president's ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such... (By Dan Eggen and Josh White, The Washington Post) Centers Tap Into Personal Databases State Groups Were Formed After 9/11 (By Robert O'Harrow Jr., The Washington Post) Wall Street Begins Quarter With a Bang Spurred by Financials, Dow Jumps 391 (By Alejandro Lazo, The Washington Post) Md. Boy, 12, Kills Man Attacking Mother Officials Undecided On Filing Charges (By Avis Thomas-Lester and Hamil R. Harris, The Washington Post) Capitals Are Standing Tall Streaking Team Routs Carolina to Pull Even Atop Their Division: Capitals 4, Hurricanes 1 (By Tarik El-Bashir, The Washington Post) More Today's Highlights POLITICS Goofy Characters and Weird People -- Sounds Like a Hearing International financial markets are in turmoil, gas is pushing $4 a gallon and a recession looms. But don't worry, folks: The House Energy and Commerce Committee is on the case. (By Dana Milbank, The Washington Post) Beacon or Boondoggle? New Lights For the Capitol Update Would Conserve Energy, Democrats Say (By Christopher Lee, The Washington Post) Memo: Laws Didn't Apply to Interrogators Justice Dept. Official in 2003 Said President's Wartime Authority Trumped Many Statutes (By Dan Eggen and Josh White, The Washington Post) Congressman Ordered to Pay in Wiretap Case (By Paul Kane, The Washington Post) Environmental Laws to Be Waived for Fence Lawmaker Accuses Administration of Abusing Authority to Build Barrier at Mexican Border (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post) More Politics
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NATION Heavy Troop Deployments Are Called Major Risk Senior Army and Marine Corps leaders said yesterday that the increase of more than 30,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has put unsustainable levels of stress on U.S. ground forces and has put their readiness to fight other conflicts at the lowest level in years. (By Ann Scott Tyson, The Washington Post) In Chicago, Youth Violence Prompts Clampdown 22 Students Slain So Far This Year; City's Public Schools Get Security Cameras and Extra Police (By Kari Lydersen, The Washington Post) Antiabortion Ballot Initiative Appears Likely (By Kari Lydersen, The Washington Post) Environmental Laws to Be Waived for Fence Lawmaker Accuses Administration of Abusing Authority to Build Barrier at Mexican Border (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post) Economic Slump Underlines Concerns About McCain Advisers (By Jonathan Weisman, The Washington Post) More Nation WORLD Mugabe Losing Support of Elites HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 1 -- Some members of Zimbabwe's jittery ruling elite have concluded that President Robert Mugabe must step down after apparently losing an election last weekend and have begun reaching out to opposition leaders to resolve the four-day-old political standoff, according to... (By Craig Timberg and Darlington Majonga, The Washington Post) China Says Arrest Links Dalai Lama To Lhasa Rioting Officials Assert Connection to Dalai Lama (By Jill Drew, The Washington Post) Tiny Party Shows Large Clout on Settlements (By Griff Witte, The Washington Post) For India, Tibet Poses Some Delicate Issues (By Rama Lakshmi, The Washington Post) Trial to Open in Alleged British Bomb Plot That Prompted Tighter Security at Airports (By Kevin Sullivan, The Washington Post) More World METRO Md. Boy, 12, Kills Man Attacking Mother The 12-year-old boy had finished his homework and was playing a video game when he heard his mother cry out. Rushing to her aid, he found her on the kitchen floor, straddled by a fellow resident of their Prince George's County boarding house, the man's hands wrapped tightly around her neck, the boy... (By Avis Thomas-Lester and Hamil R. Harris, The Washington Post) D.C. Council Repeals Landlords' Exemption (By Nikita Stewart, The Washington Post) Loudoun Approves Jump in Tax Rate Housing Downturn, Schools' Growth Prompt 19% Rise (By Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post) Va. Executions Are Put on Hold Kaine Orders Halt Till U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Lethal Injections (By Tim Craig, The Washington Post) Ex-Staffer Maintains Slight Lead in Primary (By Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post) More Metro BUSINESS Pearlstein: Financial Regulation Reform Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein discusses financial regulation reform and lessons from the current crisis. (Steven Pearlstein, washingtonpost.com) Senators Agree to Make Deal On Housing Compromise Could End Republican Resistance (By Lori Montgomery, The Washington Post) Centers Tap Into Personal Databases State Groups Were Formed After 9/11 (By Robert O'Harrow Jr., The Washington Post) Familiar Back and Forth With Oil Executives (By Steven Mufson, The Washington Post) Safeway, Giant Workers Ratify New Contract Health Care Was Main Concern (By Ylan Q. Mui, The Washington Post) More Business TECHNOLOGY Centers Tap Into Personal Databases Intelligence centers run by states across the country have access to personal information about millions of Americans, including unlisted cellphone numbers, insurance claims, driver's license photographs and credit reports, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post. (By Robert O'Harrow Jr., The Washington Post) FCC Chairman to Seek Dismissal of Skype's Plea for Open Access to Wireless Networks (By Cecilia Kang, The Washington Post) At Hearing, Real and Virtual Worlds Collide Forget C-SPAN: Congress Goes Interactive (The Washington Post) Economic Slump Underlines Concerns About McCain Advisers (By Jonathan Weisman, The Washington Post) Tribune Gag Stands Out on a Day of Pranks (By Frank Ahrens, The Washington Post) More Technology SPORTS Once-Stumbling Caps Now in a Full Sprint Alex Ovechkin is the best player in the game at the height of his powers and has turned an ambivalent hockey town into a virtual puckhead convention. (By Mike Wise, The Washington Post) Arenas Cleared to Play, But He Won't Tonight (By Ivan Carter, The Washington Post) When the Heat Is On, U.S. Runners Are Ready (By Amy Shipley, The Washington Post) Capitals Are Standing Tall Streaking Team Routs Carolina to Pull Even Atop Their Division: Capitals 4, Hurricanes 1 (By Tarik El-Bashir, The Washington Post) Second-Half Surge Lifts Pachuca Over United Pachuca 2, United 0 (By Steven Goff, The Washington Post) More Sports STYLE The War Comes Home Two years ago, a young writer named Chris Bachelder published "U.S.!," a novel that centered on a gothic and arresting image: In some dystopian version of our own crazy world, the body of the great muckraking novelist Upton Sinclair is repeatedly unearthed and resurrected, only to be assassinated... (By Philip Kennicott, The Washington Post) For Spring Fever, a Little Dose of Hollywood (By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts, The Washington Post) Electronic Pickpocket Stoppers How Paranoid Is It to Buy a Wallet With a Metal Shield for Your SmarTrip Card? (By David Montgomery, The Washington Post) 'In the Heights': Beats With a Latino Pulse (By Peter Marks, The Washington Post) Daniel Pink and the Economic Model of Creativity (By Philip Kennicott, The Washington Post) More Style LIVE DISCUSSIONS Potomac Confidential Metro columnist Marc Fisher looks at the opening of Nationals Park, the latest on the illegal immigration controversy in Prince William and John McCain's description of Washington as "the city of Satan." (Marc Fisher, washingtonpost.com) Wizards/NBA (Ivan Carter and Michael Lee, washingtonpost.com) Real Life Politics (Ruth Marcus, washingtonpost.com) Free Range on Food Dish With the Experts (The Food Section, washingtonpost.com) Soccer Insider (Steven Goff, washingtonpost.com) More Live Discussions Ignoring the Supreme Court THE BUSH administration never had any intention of doing what the Supreme Court commanded it to do a year ago today: regulate greenhouse gas emissions. We infer this because, even though President Bush ordered his agencies last May to work together to meet the court's directive, and even though t... (The Washington Post) Mr. Paulson's Starting Point It's not so far from Barack Obama's. (The Washington Post) Help for Haiti The U.S. should temporarily stop deportations. (The Washington Post)

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Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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.

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Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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, April 01, 2008

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS GAO Blasts Weapons Budget Government auditors issued a scathing review yesterday of dozens of the Pentagon's biggest weapons systems, saying ships, aircraft and satellites are billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. (By Dana Hedgpeth, The Washington Post) Under the Treasury's Plan, Fed Would Lose a Key Power (By Neil Irwin, The Washington Post) A Block in Baghdad Mourns Its Own Sudden U.S. Gunfire Claims Child, Her Grandfather and a Neighbor, Residents Say (By Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post) As Rivals Battle, McCain Builds November Machine (By Michael D. Shear and Dan Balz, The Washington Post) More Today's Highlights POLITICS As Rivals Battle, McCain Builds November Machine As his Democratic presidential rivals squabble, Sen. John McCain has moved to transform his ragtag primary campaign into a general-election operation by boosting fundraising, establishing control over the Republican National Committee, and beginning a conversation with voters who live in states... (By Michael D. Shear and Dan Balz, The Washington Post) Jackson Resigns as HUD Secretary Longtime Bush Friend Is Facing Cronyism Investigations (By Dan Eggen and Carol D. Leonnig, The Washington Post) Opposition To Treasury's Blueprint Gains Steam (By David Cho and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, The Washington Post) Tricky Votes Loom For 3 Candidates Lawmakers From Opposing Parties Aim to Make Campaign Trail Slippery (By Jonathan Weisman and Paul Kane, The Washington Post) As Jefferson Ruling Stands, Prosecutors Feel Stymied Justices Decline to Review Decision Against FBI Raid on Congressman's Office, Raising Fears Over Other Inquiries (By Robert Barnes and Susan Schmidt, The Washington Post) More Politics
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NATION Jackson Resigns as HUD Secretary Embattled Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson announced his resignation yesterday, leaving the Bush administration without a top housing official in the midst of a vast mortgage crisis that has shaken the global economy. (By Dan Eggen and Carol D. Leonnig, The Washington Post) As Jefferson Ruling Stands, Prosecutors Feel Stymied Justices Decline to Review Decision Against FBI Raid on Congressman's Office, Raising Fears Over Other Inquiries (By Robert Barnes and Susan Schmidt, The Washington Post) Opposition To Treasury's Blueprint Gains Steam (By David Cho and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, The Washington Post) SEAL Killed in Iraq To Get Medal of Honor (By Ann Scott Tyson, The Washington Post) Detainee Is Charged With Capital Murder in Embassy Bombing (By Josh White and Joby Warrick, The Washington Post) More Nation WORLD A Block in Baghdad Mourns Its Own BAGHDAD, March 31 -- Abdul Qader, his chest and leg wrapped in white bandages, began to cry -- not out of pain, but loss. He remembered seeing the American Humvees, then a hail of bullets. He remembered seeing his close friend and neighbor, Abbas Ramadan, shot as he clutched his 2-year-old... (By Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post) Bush Visits a Ukraine Deeply Split Over Bid to Join Western Alliance (By Peter Baker, The Washington Post) In Sri Lanka, Fear of Being 'Disappeared' Government Offensive Against Tamil Rebels Also Claims Civilian Victims (By Emily Wax, The Washington Post) Mugabe Is Trailing, Observer Team Says With No Official Results Yet, Group Predicts Runoff (By Craig Timberg and Darlington Majonga, The Washington Post) Bin Laden Took Part in 1986 Arms Deal, Book Says (By Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post) More World METRO Slaying Suspect's Wife Warned of Risk to Children Mark Castillo drowned his three children, one by one, in the bathtub of a Baltimore hotel room and placed their naked bodies in a bed, he later told police. He swallowed 100 Motrin pills and stabbed himself in the neck repeatedly with a steak knife. Then, police said, he drifted into... (By Raymond McCaffrey, Dan Morse and Daniel de Vise, The Washington Post) Dominion Gets Initial Approval For Coal Plant (By Tim Craig and Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post) Rail to Reel Metro Opens Its Doors To Hollywood, as Long as It's Not During Rush Hour (By Lena H. Sun, The Washington Post) 'Tech Tax' Repeal Likely to Clear Md. Senate Panel (By John Wagner, The Washington Post) Tourism Hopes Riding On Alexandria Trolley (By Kirstin Downey, The Washington Post) More Metro BUSINESS What's It Worth? Housing Outlook 2008 The Washington Post's Allan Lengel and real estate associate Nancy Wilson will be online to answer your questions about the real estate industry. (Allan Lengel and Nancy Wilson, washingtonpost.com) Va. Employment Commission Cuts Back Fairfax Office Closing as Jobless Claims Rise; Work Goes to Alexandria, Woodbridge (By Alejandro Lazo, The Washington Post) Opposition To Treasury's Blueprint Gains Steam (By David Cho and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, The Washington Post) Three Firms Combine on Cellphone Remittances (By Cecilia Kang, The Washington Post) GAO Blasts Weapons Budget Cost Overruns Hit $295 Billion (By Dana Hedgpeth, The Washington Post) More Business TECHNOLOGY Skilled-Worker Visa Demand Expected To Far Exceed Supply The nation's giant technology firms are competing this week in the annual government lottery for visas allowing them to hire highly skilled foreign workers, and few are expecting to get what they want. (By Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post) Three Firms Combine on Cellphone Remittances (By Cecilia Kang, The Washington Post) GAO Blasts Weapons Budget Cost Overruns Hit $295 Billion (By Dana Hedgpeth, The Washington Post) Campaign.USA With the Internet Comes a New Political 'Clickocracy' (By Jose Antonio Vargas, The Washington Post) Veterans Return To Bleak Job Market (By Stephen Barr, The Washington Post) More Technology SPORTS Wizards' Road Trip Ends With A Thud Playing without injured starters Antonio Daniels and Caron Butler, the Wizards close out a season-long five-game road trip by getting smoked in Utah, 129-87. (By Ivan Carter, The Washington Post) O's Making a Constructive Effort (By Thomas Boswell, The Washington Post) Taking Their Show on the Road In Philadelphia, More Ninth-Inning Heroics Lead Nationals to Another Win : Nationals 11, Phillies 6 (By Barry Svrluga, The Washington Post) Terrapins Stopped Short Toliver Scores 35 Points, but Wiggins's 41 Lead Cardinal to Final Four: Stanford 98, Maryland 87 (By Kathy Orton, The Washington Post) Daniels, Butler Sit; Could Return Against Bucks (By Ivan Carter, The Washington Post) More Sports STYLE Campaign.USA We saw it coming. Just as MySpace and Facebook change the way we communicate, just as YouTube alters the way we entertain ourselves, just as eBay and iTunes modify the way we shop, the Internet is transforming the way we engage with this never-ending presidential campaign. (By Jose Antonio Vargas, The Washington Post) The Reliable Source (By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts, The Washington Post) A Swing and Another Hit At Nationals Park, Pop Music Pumps Up the Baseball Crowd (By J. Freedom du Lac, The Washington Post) Making the Grade: Studio Repeats 'History Boys' (By Peter Marks, The Washington Post) The Interpreter of Memories From The Killing Fields (By Elizabeth Becker, The Washington Post) More Style LIVE DISCUSSIONS Talking Fashion Deputy Editor of the Sunday Source Suzanne D'Amato and washingtonpost.com Fashion and Beauty Editor Janet Bennett Kelly help answer your fashion and style questions. (Suzanne D'Amato and Janet Bennett Kelly, washingtonpost.com) What's Cooking With Kim O'Donnel (Kim O'Donnel, washingtonpost.com) Book World: 'The Bin Ladens' 'An Arabian Family in the American Century' (Steve Coll, washingtonpost.com) Opinion Focus (Eugene Robinson, washingtonpost.com) Lean Plate Club Talk About Nutrition and Health (Sally Squires, washingtonpost.com) More Live Discussions Zimbabwe Teeters ZIMBABWE IS at a familiar tipping point. There is growing evidence that a presidential and parliamentary election held Saturday was won by the opposition -- mandating, at long last, the retirement of 84-year-old President Robert Mugabe. But there's been a suspicious and prolonged delay in the ann... (The Washington Post) Tots, Teens and Safety Maryland lawmakers have a chance to save some young lives. (The Washington Post) Holding Pattern The demise of New York's passenger bill of rights puts the spotlight on Congress. (The Washington Post)

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