Barack Obama

...My Yahoo! Chinese Internet users want to quiz U.S. President Barack Obama about trade feuds, basketball, Tibet and whether he will cede California to China, according to websites seeking questions for a "town hall" meeting. Obama arrives...

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...respond to a request for comment. According to Simone Lang, director of the Speakers Series, a visit by Obama would galvanize state legislators and Californians about the current state of the UC system. "Berkeley has been a leader in...

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US Senate confirms envoy to Australia The US Senate has confirmed President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to Australia, longtime friend and powerhouse international lawyer Jeffrey Bleich. Senators unanimously approved Bleich, who...

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...weeks ago by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. As President Barack Obama travelled to China last week, regulators in both countries were mopping up after the UCB failure. The bank's assets in the US and China were transferred to...

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...a young boy and that he's never forgotten the warmth and hospitality he was shown there. Obama also called himself "America's first Pacific president." He didn't note, however, that Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon both lived in...

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama appeared to be taking a page from Richard Nixon's playbook Wednesday when he seemed to declare the suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed guilty and deserving of the death penalty. In...

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...new ones. " In an interview on Thursday morning, Senator John Kerry argued that President Obama should go to Copenhagen -- and that the climate meeting could still make substantial progress, despite downgraded expectations. At a...

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...and Lynn Woolsey of California. The lawmakers praised Obama for "taking the appropriate time" to assess the situation, amid pressure by some Republicans to decide quickly on dispatching more troops. Obama, who is on a visit to Asia, has...

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...support, solidarity, and freedom could come too.'' Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, who this week drew the attention of President Barack Obama, wrote in an essay to House Foreign Affairs chairman Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., that lifting the ban...

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