It’s wonderful to be here today. I feel right at home in Bettendorf, which is just a stone’s throw from my home state of Illinois.
Obama’s November 7, 2007, speech on the ‘American Dream’
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U.S. pledges $73 million in aid to Zimbabwe
The United States will provide $73 million in aid to Zimbabwe, President Obama announced Friday after meeting with Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai at the White House. “I obviously have extraordinary admiration for the courage and tenacity that the prime minister has shown in navigating through some very difficult political times in Zimbabwe,” Obama said. “There was a time when Zimbabwe was the breadbasket of Africa, and [it] continues to have enormous potential.
After 7 years at Gitmo, resettled Uyghurs grateful for freedom
Two of four Uyghurs relocated to Bermuda after seven years of detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, denied Friday that they had ever been terrorists, and expressed gratitude toward President Obama for working to free them. Asked what he would say to someone who accused him of being a terrorist, one of the men, Kheleel Mamut, told CNN’s Don Lemon, “I am no terrorist; I have not been terrorist. I will never be terrorist.
Commentary: Chastity, ‘Good luck, brother!’
Welcome, Chaz! Welcome, Chaz! Before the word “transsexual” had been coined in English, an intrepid young person whose family belonged to the British nobility set out to transform herself from female to male.
Fake military veteran hid under ‘ocean of lies’
Richard Strandlof said he survived the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon. He said he survived again when a roadside bomb went off in Iraq killing four fellow Marines. He’d point to his head and tell people he had a metal plate, collateral damage from the explosion.
Police: Suspected robber fleeing scene in car kills woman, 3 kids
A woman and three children were killed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when a suspected robber fleeing in a car jumped a curb and struck them, police said Thursday.
Tagged: The World’s Most Annoying Website
The e-mail came across my screen innocently enough. A former boss, Dinda, whom I hadn’t heard from in some time, was sending me pictures through some social-networking outlet called “Tagged.” Interesting. Did Dinda and I snap a photo together back in the day
Witness: ‘There was blood everywhere’
All 19-year-old Maria Hernandez wanted to do was escort her grandparents, visiting from Puerto Rico, through a museum whose displays had so impressed her during her previous visit. But their tour of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ended abruptly just before 1 p.m
Funny Photos of Unhappy People
It started with angry old people.
Hillary Clinton: I said no, at first, to secretary of state job
When then-President-elect Barack Obama first asked Hillary Clinton to be his top diplomat, she turned him down and recommended others for the job, the secretary of state said in an interview broadcast Sunday.