PHUKET, Thailand - North Korea must completely and irreversibly end its nuclear weapons program or face further isolation and “the unrelenting pressure’’ of international sanctions, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday. After consulting at this seaside resort with her …

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Area congressmen listened intently to President Barack Obama as he sought support for health care reform during a press conference Wednesday night. He vowed to reject any measure “primarily funded through taxing middle-class families.” That was what U.S. Reps. Zack Space, D-Dover, and John …

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months in office, President Barack Obama sought Wednesday night to rally support for sweeping health care legislation he’s struggling to push through Congress, expressing support for a surtax on families making more than $1 million a year to help pay for it. Under pressure …

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Barack Obama said a broad healthcare overhaul was critical to a US economic recovery and urged Congress to take advantage of momentum behind the reform package, despite doubts about the plan even among fellow Democrats. In a televised evening news conference, Obama said the biggest driving force …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Wednesday police had acted “stupidly” in arresting a prominent black Harvard University scholar at his own home, weighing in on escalating debate over the treatment of minorities by U.S. law enforcement officers. Obama, the United States’ first …

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s administration began holding private meetings with health industry executives at the White House a few weeks after he took office, a visitor list released Wednesday night by the White House shows. Lobbyists were among those there to talk health care …

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Palestinian protesters in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. The Obama Administration has ordered Israel to halt construction of a new Jewish-owned hotel on the eastern side of Jerusalem. Last summer, in the course of a campaign speech reaching out to pro-Israel groups concerned …

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Despite the heat and humidity, thousands of people packed the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel last week to hear President Barack Obama speak about his health care initiative and urge voters to support the re-election campaign of Gov. Jon Corzine. Above: President Barack Obama addresses the crowd of …

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Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. refutes the police account of his arrest. The incident began when Cambridge Police Sgt. Joseph Crowley Crowley had responded to a call about someone apparently trying to break into Gates’ Cambridge, Mass., home. Crowley said Gates called him a “racist cop” after …

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Los Angeles - Police and federal agents on Wednesday raided the Houston offices of Michael Jackson’s personal doctor Conrad Murray, in a search for medical records they believed would constitute evidence of manslaughter, the doctor’s lawyer said. Murray was the personal physician who was with …

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