Mark Ficken, the announcer at the Missouri State Fair rodeo, is disputing that he had anything to do with a rodeo clown’s act mocking President Barack Obama.

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The president for the first time endorsed an approach to remake the housing finance system as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are wound down.

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President Barack Obama has nominated attorneys Doug Harpool and Daniel Crabtree to federal judgeships.

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The decision applies to spouses of U.S. citizens as well as non-U.S. citizens.

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A group sued President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in January, claiming the controversial U.S. military-detention law may subject them to detention for acts protected by the U.S. Constitution, including writing and advocacy.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the president had the power to install three of his nominees to the board without Senate approval.

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Not all its cases are losers, to be sure, but this administration’s pursuit of expansive authority tends to lose big.

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President Barack Obama announced a series of actions aimed at protecting technology, finance and retail companies from lawsuits and demands for fees by businesses that abuse the patent system.

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President Barack Obama’s nominees to the National Labor Relations Board — an agency that has come under fire by critics as well as the Supreme Court in recent months — will face a tough confirmation process in the new Senate, a top aide said last week.

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How can President Barack Obama be so right about the mosque and yet get it so wrong? Here’s how: He is so supremely confident in his intellect that he forgets, on his way to the correct decision, to slow down ...

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The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s new law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for a clash between the federal government and the state over the nation’s toughest immigration crackdown. The lawsuit ...

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