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Speaking to the N.A.A.C.P., President Obama delivered a fiery sermon to black America, warning parents and children that they must accept their own responsibilities.
The abandonment of a so-called card check provision was an example of the power of moderate Democrats to constrain their party’s more liberal legislative efforts.
AP - Bombs minutes apart ripped through two luxury hotels in Jakarta Friday, killing nine and wounding at least 50 more, ending a four-year lull in terror attacks in the world's most populous Muslim nation. At least 14 foreigners were among the dead and wounded.
AP - Sonia Sotomayor sped toward confirmation as the nation's first Hispanic justice Thursday, encouraged by Republican promises of a quick vote and cheered on by a Democratic senator's challenge to take on the Supreme Court's conservative wing when she arrives.
AP - Democrats' health care bills won't meet President Barack Obama's goal of slowing the ruinous rise of medical costs, Congress' budget umpire warned on Thursday, giving weight to critics who say the legislation could break the bank.
Explosions tore through two luxury hotels Friday morning in south Jakarta, Indonesia. At least eight people were killed and dozens were wounded, according to a presidential spokesman. Police sealed off the area around both blasts, one of which occurred in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and the other at the J.W. Marriott Hotel, about 50 meters away.
Authorities have located valuable evidence, including a stolen safe and the gun they think was used to shoot and kill a Florida couple who had adopted 13 children, a state attorney said Thursday. Eight people are in custody in what authorities have called an almost perfect crime.
One hundred years after the birth of the NAACP, the civil rights group tonight welcomed the first African-American president. "One hundred years from now, on the 200th anniversary of the NAACP, let it be said that this generation did its part, that we too ran the race," President Obama told the group's annual convention.