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Years After Death, Obama’s Mom Gets Her Wish

A few years before her death, Barack Obama's mother completed her doctoral dissertation.

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Nicolas Cage Takes Home United Nations Honors

Finally, some good news for Nicolas Cage. Despite his recent financial woes, the Oscar-winning thesp was honored by the United Nations for his philanthropic spirit Friday night, taking…

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Reports Fuel Speculation Over Bin Laden’s Location

The mystery over Osama bin Laden's whereabouts has taken a new turn, with multiple reports claiming that the Al-Qaeda leader is not hiding in Pakistan, as widely believed, and could be in Afghanistan. Information about the location of the man the U.S. blames for orchestrating the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been scarce ever since international forces launched a manhunt for him in Afghanistan in 2001

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White House Makes Case for Afghan Plan

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s top cabinet officers went before skeptical members of Congress on Wednesday to argue his case for a rapid build-up of troops in Afghanistan, followed by withdrawals beginning in 2011.

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Obama Adds Troops to Afghanistan, but Maps Exit Plan

WEST POINT, N.Y. — President Obama announced Tuesday that he would speed 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan in coming months, but he vowed to start bringing American forces home in the middle of 2011, saying the United States could not afford and should not have to shoulder an open-ended commitment. Promising that he could “bring this war to a successful conclusion,” Mr

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Pullout from Afghanistan to begin in 2011

WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to announce Tuesday night that he will begin to transition American forces out of Afghanistan beginning in July 2011, setting the first time frame to wind down the war there nearly a decade after the United States first sent troops in to topple the Taliban government, a senior administration official said.

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The Official Queen Elizabeth Aging Timeline

In the 56 years Elizabeth II has been the Queen of England, 11 separate men have held the presidency of the United States, and all have been photographed with the her. She has aged very gracefully, but I have to admit that she was kind of a fox back in the 1950s. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

Arnold Schwarzenegger: I’ll Be Back Taxes

Filed under: Celebrity Justice , Arnold Schwarzenegger The United States government might have a bigger budget to work with — if one bodybuilding governor would pay the back taxes it appears he never got around to paying. According to documents filed in L.A. County Superior Court, Arnold Schwarzenegger …

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Obama's Legit Slow Motion Catch

The Detroit/Green Bay half-time show today began with a United We Serve advertisement featuring Obama showing off his football prowess. Regardless, the clips of small children doing jumping jacks doesn't do a whole lot to discredit the beliefs that United We Serve is a foothold for Obama's socialist goals.

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Obama’s slavery czar

His title is a jawbreaker: director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. But Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca's target is, simply, slavery. “We tend to say, slavery: bad; 1865: taken care of,” he tells me, wiping his hands dismissively as if washing away the scourge

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