President Barack Obama, whose trip to Copenhagen failed to land the Olympics, is being pressured to return to the city this year on another risky mission: winning a global agreement to fight global warming. “I would hope since he went ...

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An ex-employee is seeking a piece of Pi. Ryan Mangialardo is suing the St. Louis pizzeria Pi and owners Chris Sommers and Frank Uible for a breach of contract. Mangialardo claims he had an agreement for two percent interest in ...

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It’s finally official. Judge Richard Callahan has been tapped to become the federal prosecutor for Eastern Missouri. President Barack Obama announced his picks for four U.S. attorney openings on Friday. He chose Callahan, a circuit judge in Jefferson City, to ...

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U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s mother-in-law, Martha Dusenbury, retrieved from the tidy yellow house built by the congressman’s grandfather a photo she said was evidence the South Carolina Republican is no racist. The framed photo depicts a blonde Wilson as a ...

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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton predicted that Barack Obama would prevail in his bid to win passage of his health-care initiative and that some Republican senators likely would support the legislation. Clinton, the last president to attempt a broad overhaul ...

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Washington wants to come between me and my doctor, a television commercial warns. I suspect the group that bought the spot worries less about my well-being than its own. The ad discloses the sponsor’s name but not what is at ...

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At the moment President Barack Obama strode to the podium in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday, fifth-graders watching from M. Agnes Jones Elementary School in Atlanta clapped their hands and cheered with glee. The indoctrination was about to begin. Actually, it ...

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Curbing medical malpractice lawsuits is a leading goal of business groups and Republicans, and President Barack Obama on Wednesday night during a joint session of Congress said he is pursuing a pilot project designed to prevent doctors from practicing "defensive medicine" by ordering unnecessary tests for fear of being sued.

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The Obama administration began releasing the names of White House visitors, making public a log that it and previous administrations had sought to keep private.  “For the first time in history, records of White House visitors will be made available ...

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You know the U.S. Postal Service is inefficient when President Barack Obama takes a jab. After all, the president is a guy who apparently thinks there is little that government cannot do. Can government restructure the entire health care system? ...

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President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders, unable to reach a deal with Republicans in health care, are considering alternatives to a bipartisan bill, Sen. Charles Schumer said. Schumer, speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, said Obama and Democratic ...

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