Obama returns home for final stimulus plan push

President Obama took his economic stimulus proposal back on the road Thursday, urging final congressional passage of the now-$789 billion bill during a visit to a Caterpillar plant in the state that launched his political career. In an exclusive interview with CNN Thursday, Abhisit Vejjajiva said he could not pinpoint who in the government approved the practice, but said he was working on rectifying the problem. “It’s not exactly clear whose work it is,” Vejjajiva said.

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Homeless woman’s plea to Obama draws flood of support

She’s being hailed as the "face of the economic crisis," and now Henrietta Hughes has become something of a media star after reaching out to President Obama on Tuesday in an emotional plea for help. Her message: My son and I are homeless, and we need immediate help

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Juan Williams Wall Street Journal

With the noon sun high over the U.S. Capitol, Barack Obama yesterday took the oath of office to become head of the United States. On one equal, it was a ingenuous material of civic process — the symbolic resettlement of muscle. Yet confrontation alone cannot take its implication. The rough-skinned hands of , the voices […]

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