Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:27 PM EDT
Mike Huckabee, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, says the effort to allow gays and lesbians to marry is comparable to legalizing incest, polygamy and drug use.
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Wed Mar 31, 2010 5:32 PM EDT
First lady Michelle Obama is welcoming spring to the White House by replanting her popular vegetable garden with the help of local elementary school students.
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Tue Mar 2, 2010 12:17 PM EST
First lady Michelle Obama celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday Tuesday by reading "The Cat in the Hat" to a group of children wearing red-and-white-striped stovepipe hats like the book's main character.
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Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:12 PM EST
President Barack Obama on Sunday recalled the work of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as he urged those packing a Baptist church to take heart in hard times and celebrate progress — however small.
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Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:49 AM EST
After 10 months in office, President Barack Obama granted his first pardon Wednesday to "Courage," a 45-pound turkey spared from the Thanksgiving table.
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Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:02 PM EDT
Days after releasing top-secret memos that detailed the CIA's use of simulated drowning while interrogating terror suspects, President Barack Obama went to the spy agency's Virginia headquarters on Monday to defend his decision and bolster the morale of its employees.
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Wed May 7, 2008 1:48 PM EDT
The Humane Society of the United States released video footage Wednesday of sick and injured livestock the group says were mistreated at auction sites and stockyards where cattle are sold for slaughter.
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Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:16 PM EST
They're the odd couple again: George Bush and Hillary Clinton, the most admired man and woman in America.
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Sun Dec 2, 2007 5:08 AM EST
From "Good Vibrations" to "GoodFellas," Brian Wilson and Martin Scorsese scored. Steve Martin strutted as one of the "wild and crazy guys." Diana Ross sang to Motown stardom. Pianist Leon Fleisher surmounted a debilitating injury.
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Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:41 PM EDT
In another jab at his chief rival, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says in an ad released Sunday that the country needs an honest dialogue about Social Security in order to fix the system.
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Sun Oct 7, 2007 11:47 AM EDT
President Bush on Sunday honored fallen firefighters for their dedication and service to the nation.
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Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:26 PM EDT
After the Civil War, concerns about immigration and a changing culture raised an interest in having schoolchildren honor the American flag.
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