President Barack Obama today said he will seek tougher standards in schools, merit pay for teachers and reduced high-school dropout rates in a bid for a more educated...
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362 President Obama signed an executive order overturning a Bush-era policy that limited federal tax dollars for embryonic stem cell research.
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363 In his first visit to America since Obama took office, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown addressed a joint session of U.S. congress to discuss the worldwide...
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364 Obama told marines in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina that he will transition the mission in Iraq to training, advising and engaging in limited counter-terrorist...
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365 Republicans responded to President Obama's first address to Congress on Tuesday with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. Jindal criticized the Democrats for spending...
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366 Turkish Airlines Flight TK1951 from Istanbul crash-landed at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport killing nine people including two pilots.
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367 In his first speech to a joint session of Congress, President Obama outlined an ambitious agenda to revive the economy.
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368 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke went before the senate today and made a startling prediction. He feels the recession will end as early as 2010.
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369 President Obama addressed the nation's governors on the new economic stimulus package laying out what the money will do to help their states and how soon they...
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370 President Obama visited Canada in his first foreign trip as president. He met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to discuss issues revolving around...
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371 President Barack Obama says his $75 billion plan to tackle "a crisis unlike any we've ever known" in home foreclosures is necessary to help save the...
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372 President Obama signs the $787 billion dollar American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the stimulus bill) into law at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in...
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373 Japan's finance minister said he would resign after the opposition party claimed that he appeared drunk at a news conference during a meeting in Rome of finance...
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374 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone in Tokyo during her first visit to Asia since her appointment. She...
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375 Sen. Judd Gregg said he had "made a mistake" in accepting the nomination as Obama's commerce secretary. He is the second Obama pick to withdraw his...
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376 Fifty people died when a commuter airliner dove into a suburban home near Buffalo, N.Y., killing all aboard including one person on the ground.
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377 President Obama visited the Lincoln Memorial to pay tribute to the historical relevance of President Lincoln on Lincoln's birthday.
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378 David Letterman's interview with Joaquin Phoenix may have been the weirdest interview in the history of television. With Joaquin Phoenix quitting his acting...
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379 Eight bank CEO's testify before congress explaining how they used money from the government's troubled asset relief program.
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380 President Barack Obama took his case for a stimulus proposal directly to the American people on Tuesday when he spoke at a second town hall meeting in Fort Myers,...
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