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Young Obama backers AWOL from health care fight
By News on Aug 24, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Add this to President Barack Obama's problems in selling his health care overhaul: A lot of the tech-savvy activists who helped put him in office are young, feeling indestructible and not all that into what they see as an old folks issue....CIA report: 'Inhumane' tactics used on detainees
By News on Aug 24, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- CIA interrogators threatened to kill the children of one detainee at the height of the Bush administration's war on terror and implied that another's mother would be sexually assaulted, newly declassified documents revealed Monday as the government launched a criminal investigation into the spy agency's "unauthorized, improvised, inhumane" practices....Obama spokesman announces interrogation unit
By News on Aug 24, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has approved creation of a new, special terrorism-era interrogation unit to be supervised by the White House, a top aide said Monday, further distancing his administration from President George W. Bush's detainee policies....Afghans move toward reconciliation with Taliban
By News on Aug 24, 2009
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (AP) -- Local Afghan leaders told a top U.S. Marine commander Monday that they plan to step up efforts to reconcile with midlevel Taliban in the extremists' southern Helmand province stronghold, where U.S. forces launched a major offensive in recent weeks....
POLL: New Low for Obama Approval Index
By News on Aug 23, 2009
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President....
