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Santorum Wins Louisiana Primary
Just when it looked as if Rick Santorum’s campaign was losing steam, after suffering losses to Mitt Romney in the recent Puerto Rico and Illinois primaries, he enjoyed a hefty rebound in Louisiana. He trounced the competition and was announced as the projected winner with around 40 percent of the vote as soon as polls…
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President Obama Weighs In on Trayvon Martin
On Friday morning, President Obama weighed in for the first time on the Trayvon Martin shooting. Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, the president first insisted that he would not comment too specifically, to avoid impairing the investigation. Yet he stressed that it is “absolutely imperative” that Martin’s death be investigated. The president’s biggest…
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How the White House Does Mentoring
It was an idea that the first lady had mentioned several times since moving to the White House. Despite having held a range of events in those first few months engaging young people — a rap session with teens at a local community health center’s after-school program; her White House dinner for high school girls…
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Faces of Obama's Health Care Reform
Editor’s note, June 28, 2012: With news that the Supreme Court upheld key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, The Root has decided to re-run this blog posting where we met people who are affected by the health care law. At an Iowa town hall last summer, an audience member prodded President Obama for failing…
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What Has Health Care Reform Changed?
The second anniversary this Friday of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act comes at a tricky time. While the Obama administration has been busily stumping for the president’s landmark health care reform law, looming just ahead, on Monday, is the start of a U.S. Supreme Court case that could potentially dismantle…
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In Illinois: More Than the Presidential Race
Illinois was the only state to cast its votes in the Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, but the political watching didn’t end there. Further down the ballot, the state also voted in a host of hotly contested congressional races, including a high-profile challenge between incumbent Jesse Jackson Jr. and former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson. On…
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Violence Against Women Act at Risk?
Historically, the Violence Against Women Act has been an uncontroversial, bipartisan bill reauthorized by Congress as a matter of routine. Passed in 1994, the act created training grants and programs to help investigate and prosecute violent crimes against women. It also increased funding for direct services for victims of domestic violence, such as emergency shelter,…
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High-Profile Activists Arrested at Protest
Actor George Clooney — along with NAACP President Ben Jealous, U.S. Reps. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), actor and activist Dick Gregory and Martin Luther King III — were arrested on Friday during a protest at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, D.C. They were released the same afternoon. Joining in on the National…
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The State Dinner Is Almost Served
Hours before Wednesday evening’s state dinner in honor of British Prime Minister David Cameron and Mrs. Samantha Cameron, first lady Michelle Obama hosted a smaller White House event for high school girls from the United States and the United Kingdom, explaining the importance of the official visit. The lucky teens were also treated to a…
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Santorum Sweeps Southern Primaries
Bragging rights go to Rick Santorum, the big winner in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries on Tuesday. His victories in the deep red Southern states, where a combined average of 40 percent of primary voters described themselves as “very conservative,” came with 35 percent and 33 percent of the votes respectively at the times the…
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