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The article reports on the farewell speech given by U.S. President Barack Obama in Chicago, Illinois, to an audience of about 18,000 people. Topics of the speech included the need to Americans to be active citizens in order to preserve U.S. democracy, health care reform and the U.S. Affordable Care Act, and tributes to First Lady Michelle Obama and U.S. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

The article reports on the debate over bathroom access rights for transgender people in the U.S. The administration of President Barack Obama ordered public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice. Religious conservatives are opposing the order. The Human Rights Campaign criticized the attack against transgender students.

The article discusses U.S. Republican (G.O.P.) Governors' attitudes towards allowing Syrian refugees to resettle in the U.S. within the context of the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, France, including the impact of U.S. national security on their attitudes. An overview of the U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to resettle Syrian refugees, including in regard to the moral aspects of refugee resettlement, is provided.

The article focuses on the establishment of Barack Obama Presidential Center in South Side, Chicago in Illinois. It mentions that the Center will include a library, museum, and space for the Obama Foundation. It notes that the library will be built in collaboration with the University of Chicago wherein the location for the establishment was not yet revealed.

The article informs that former U.S. President and First lady Barack and Michelle Obama unveiled the first look at the design of the planned Obama Presidential Library Center in Jackson Park, South Side, which will contain children's play area, barbecuing area, and a studio.

The article reports on the support by U.S. President Barack Obama to prevent contamination of water supply in Flint, Michigan.

The article reports that during the same weekend that U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won a presidential primary in the state of Maine, candidate Hillary Clinton fired her campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, replacing her with another aide Maggie Williams. After a disappointing Super Tuesday of primaries, Clinton's campaign was lacking money. Obama also won a Grammy Award for his recording of his book "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream."

The article reports that presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama and some of their supporters made charges on race- and gender-related issues, creating fears their rivalry would be divisive for the Democratic party. Clinton charged that Obama had distorted her previous remarks on Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which his campaign denied. African American businessman Robert Johnson, a Clinton supporter, made thinly veiled allusions to Obama's admitted youthful drug use.

The article focuses on the impact of young voters in the U.S. presidential election, particularly as it relates to candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, the two men favored to win the New Hampshire primary on January 8, 2008. Obama won the January 3 Iowa caucuses in large part due to an exceptional turnout by young voters. Analysts caution turnout by young people in general elections habitually falls short of expectations.

This article discusses some of the heated clashes between presidential candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign as the New Hampshire primary approaches. Three Democratic contenders, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards, attacked each other's positions on health care and the Iraq War in a debate in Manchester, New Hampshire. Republican candidate Mitt Romney was criticized in the debate by his rivals, Mike Huckabee and John McCain.

The article focuses on the victory of Barack Obama in the Democratic party caucus in Iowa, the first event of the U.S. presidential election. Obama upset rival Hillary Rodham Clinton by appealing to first-time voters and emphasizing the need for change. A record turnout, including many independents, created the victory and proved the strength of Obama's message.

The article reports on the selection of Chicago, Illinois as home to the planned Presidential Library and Museum of U.S. President Barack Obama.

In his most recent thriller, ''The Devil's Light,'' Richard North Patterson wrote a detailed plot in which Osama bin Laden tries to drop a nuclear bomb on the United States to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Two days before the book's publication date in May, Mr. Patterson watched on television as President Obama announced the news that Bin Laden, who was alive in Mr. Patterson's book, had been cornered and killed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A memoir by Auma Obama, a half-sister of President Obama, will be published in the United States in May, St. Martin's Press said on Tuesday. The book was released in Germany last fall with a title that translates as ''Life Always Gets in the Way'' or ''Life Happens.'' Ms. Obama was born in Kenya and first met her younger brother in the 1980s, after which they traveled to Kenya and researched their family history together. She lived in Germany for 16 years and now works in Nairobi for CARE International. ''In this candid and emotional memoir, Auma shares her own story as well as recollections of and experiences with her famous brother,'' said a statement from St. Martin's, part of Macmillan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most fascinating figures to emerge from the story of President Obama - his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham - is the subject of a wide-ranging biography to be released in May, the book's publisher said on Wednesday. ''A Singular Woman,'' by Janny Scott, will be published by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group USA. The book grew out of an article Ms. Scott wrote for The New York Times in 2008. She spent more than two years conducting research in Indonesia, Kansas and Hawaii, among other places, and interviewing friends, colleagues and relatives of Ms. Dunham, including Mr. Obama and his half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng. Ms. Dunham died in 1995. Sarah McGrath, executive editor of Riverhead Books, said the book ''brilliantly captures the full portrait of this extraordinary woman who defied being pigeonholed and lived life on her own terms.'' Ms. Scott was a reporter for The Times from 1994 to 2008. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anyone who missed President Obama's speech at the Tucson memorial service on Jan. 12 can read it online, watch a video clip on YouTube or listen to snippets on NPR. And those glued to their Nooks and Kindles can now download it as an e-book. St. Martin's Press, part of Macmillan, has converted the speech into e-book form, making it available through Amazon, BN.com and other retailers for 99 cents. A spokesman for St. Martin's said the e-book, for sale on Monday, would be the only downloadable version of the speech, which is in the public domain and available to any publisher. St. Martin's has decided to name the e-book ''What Is Best in America,'' after Mr. Obama's description of the people who were killed by a gunman on Jan. 8. ''The six people who lost their lives on Saturday,'' Mr. Obama said in the speech, ''they too represented what is best in America.'' Publishers have experimented in recent months with shorter digital offerings in e-book form, including essays and short stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On sale for about a week, ''Of Thee I Sing,'' President Obama's 31-page children's picture book, an ode to 13 inspirational Americans written as a letter to his daughters, Malia and Sasha, is already on the best-seller lists on Amazon.com and BN.com. The book, published in hardcover by Knopf with a list price of $18, is illustrated by Loren Long. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Some of the critical players in President Obama's national security team doubt his strategy in Afghanistan will succeed and have spent much of the last 20 months quarreling with one another over policy, personalities and turf, according to a new book. The book, ''Obama's Wars,'' by the journalist Bob Woodward, depicts an administration deeply torn over the war in Afghanistan even as the president agreed to triple troop levels there amid suspicion that he was being boxed in by the military. Mr. Obama's top White House adviser on Afghanistan and his special envoy for the region are described as believing the strategy will not work. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama, already an internationally best-selling author, is about to add a children's book to his collection. ''Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters,'' a picture book, will be published by Random House Children's Books on Nov. 16, two weeks after the midterm elections. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Obamas escaped Washington on Saturday in search of a quintessential New York evening -- dinner and a Broadway show. They found it at Blue Hill, a low-key Greenwich Village restaurant, and at the Belasco Theater near Times Square for a performance of ''Joe Turner's Come and Gone,'' the Tony-nominated August Wilson play. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Maybe it won't be Andrew Jackson's inaugural celebration, when happy throngs of guests in muddy boots crowded the Executive Mansion, lured away only when the whiskey was moved to the White House lawn. But to hear the newly appointed White House social secretary tell it, the Obama White House might have an awfully egalitarian touch. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Alleging media bias in favor of Democrats, Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin seized Wednesday on The Los Angeles Times's refusal to release a five-year-old videotape of Barack Obama at a dinner honoring a Palestinian rights advocate. The video shows a gathering in Chicago for Rashid Khalidi, a teacher, writer and Obama friend who is critical of Israel. Mr. Obama spoke at the dinner, where other speakers likened Israel and Israelis to terrorists. The McCain campaign said the tape could show how Mr. Obama reacted to anti-Israel remarks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president, Senator Barack Obama spoke of how his grandmother started as a secretary without a college degree and worked her way up to be a vice president of a bank. ''She's the one who taught me about hard work,'' Mr. Obama said in that speech in Denver. ''She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight and that tonight is her night as well.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Memo to Senator Barack Obama: It could be dangerous to mess with the national pastime. Yet that is what Mr. Obama has possibly done in buying a 30-minute block of time on Oct. 29 on three networks, including Fox, which happens to be running the World Series. Because of the ad, Major League Baseball has agreed to push back the first pitch if there is a Game 6 that night. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The day after Senators Barack Obama and John McCain face off Wednesday at Hofstra University on Long Island for their final debate, they again share a stage -- and a microphone -- in New York, this time for a cause that has nothing to do with their presidential campaigns. ''It is, generally speaking, the last time they get together before the election,'' said Alfred E. Smith IV, the M.C. of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a charity roast run by the Archdiocese of New York to raise money for underprivileged children. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Last weekend, the chairman of the Republican Party in Virginia climbed on a folding chair and addressed campaign volunteers with a rallying cry linking Senator Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden. ''Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon,'' said the chairman, Jeffrey M. Frederick. ''That is scary.'' The comment, exaggerating Mr. Obama's association with the 1960s radical William Ayers, was reported by Karen Tumulty in Time magazine and it set off a commotion in the blogosphere. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama entered their general election contest this summer denouncing American politics as trivial and negative, and vowing to run campaigns that would address the concerns of voters during a difficult time. But Mr. McCain made clear on Monday that he wanted to make the final month of the race a referendum on Mr. Obama's character, background and leadership -- a polite way of saying he intends to attack him on all fronts and create or reinforce doubts about him among as many voters as possible. And Mr. Obama's campaign signaled that it would respond in kind, setting up an end game dominated by an invocation of events and characters from the lives of both candidates. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Did Senator Barack Obama offend the family of a soldier killed in Iraq when he mentioned in the debate on Friday that he wore a bracelet with the soldier's name? Tracy Jopek, the mother of Sgt. Ryan David Jopek, has tried to set the record straight, telling The Associated Press on Sunday that she was ''ecstatic'' when Mr. Obama mentioned her son's name. Ms. Jopek said she was upset by reports over the weekend that suggested otherwise. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's called ''The Great Schlep,'' and it's headlined by the foul-mouthed comedian Sarah Silverman. But the effort to persuade young Jews to persuade their reluctant grandparents to vote for Senator Barack Obama is completely serious. ''It's zero percent tongue-in-cheek, 100 percent real,'' said Ari Wallach, a spokesman for the group, which went online on Thursday with a video starring Ms. Silverman. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two weeks ago, Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign gleefully publicized a spate of news reports about misleading and untruthful statements in the advertisements of his rival, Senator John McCain. Asked by a voter in New Hampshire if he would respond in kind, Mr. Obama said, ''I just have a different philosophy, I'm going to respond with the truth,'' adding, ''I'm not going to start making up lies about John McCain.'' Yet as Mr. McCain's misleading advertisements became fodder on shows like ''The View'' and ''Saturday Night Live,'' Mr. Obama began his own run of advertisements on radio and television that have matched the dubious nature of Mr. McCain's more questionable spots. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This 30-second advertisement for Senator Barack Obama, titled ''Promise,'' began running last week in battleground states across the country. PRODUCER Obama media team. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Senator Barack Obama started out the general election campaign with a strategy to inundate all 50 states with ground troops and extensive get-out-the-vote efforts. But at least one state has dropped off the list. The campaign closed down its offices in North Dakota and transferred most of its staff members to neighboring Minnesota and Wisconsin, crucial swing states for Mr. Obama. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This two-minute television advertisement for Senator Barack Obama, called ''Plan for Change,'' began running Wednesday nationally and in swing states. PRODUCER Obama media team. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The presidential nominees have poured more than $15 million into television advertising since the end of the parties' national political conventions, mostly in a handful of battleground states in the Midwest, according to a study released Wednesday by the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project. In the week after the Republican convention, Senator Barack Obama spent $7.7 million on advertisements in 17 states, while Senator John McCain spent $7.8 million on spots in 15 states. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the summer of 2004 the conservative gadfly Jerome R. Corsi shot to the top of the best-seller lists as co-author of ''Unfit for Command,'' the book attacking Senator John Kerry's record on a Vietnam War Swift boat that began the larger damaging campaign against Mr. Kerry's war credentials as he sought the presidency. Almost exactly four years after that campaign began, Mr. Corsi has released a new attack book painting Senator Barack Obama, the Democrats' presumed presidential nominee, as a stealth radical liberal who has tried to cover up ''extensive connections to Islam'' -- Mr. Obama is Christian -- and questioning whether his admitted experimentation with drugs in high school and college ever ceased. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A paperback book outlining the policy positions of SenatorBarack Obama's presidential campaign is set for release next month, The Associated Press reported. ''Change We Can Believe In,'' to be published by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, will include a foreword by Mr. Obama, various sections written by his staff on issues like health care and national security, and transcripts of Mr. Obama's better-known speeches. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The National Rifle Association will pour $40 million into an advertising campaign timed to the fall presidential election, with more than a third of the money devoted to attacking Senator Barack Obama on the issue of gun rights. The group plans to run advertisements on television and radio and in print in closely contested states throughout the Midwest and the Mountain West, and focus on its four million members with telephone calls and direct mailings. News of the association's campaign was first reported by Politico.com. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Ralph Nader on Wednesday defended the comments he had made to a newspaper suggesting that Senator Barack Obama has not devoted enough time to poverty in inner cities and rural areas and ''wants to talk white.'' In an interview with The Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Mr. Nader, who is running as an independent for president, said of Mr. Obama: ''There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson?'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Here is something you might not know about Senator Barack Obama: His musical tastes are pretty mainstream. His reading list is, well, a little dark. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine to be published on Wednesday, Mr. Obama revealed that his iPod was full of dozens of selections from, top to bottom, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Jay-Z and Yo-Yo Ma. (Joining perhaps every other Democratic politician alive, he also confessed a deep love for Bruce Springsteen.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This is a television advertisement for Senator Barack Obama, the first to be released in the general election campaign. It will start being shown Friday in 18 states. PRODUCER Obama campaign media team. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Addressing a packed congregation at one of the city's largest black churches, Senator Barack Obama on Sunday invoked his own absent father to deliver a sharp message to black men, saying ''we need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn't just end at conception.'' In an address that was striking for its bluntness and where he chose to give it, Mr. Obama directly addressed one of the most delicate topics confronting black leaders: how much responsibility absent fathers bear for some of the intractable problems afflicting black Americans. Mr. Obama noted that ''more than half of all black children live in single-parent households,'' a number that he said had doubled since his own childhood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Standing before Senator Barack Obama at a campaign event Thursday in Wisconsin, a young man asked him earnestly, ''What does life mean to you?'' ''Oh, goodness,'' Mr. Obama began. ''Well, you know, I, uh, you don't know where to start on a question like that.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In almost every campaign appearance this week, Senator John McCain has been leaning on Senator Barack Obama to accept his offer to engage in a series of 10 one-on-one town-hall-style meetings, a format that worked well for Mr. McCain in the primaries. But after a round of proposals and counterproposals, the campaigns failed to reach an agreement on Friday on how often to meet and when any head-to-head matchups should occur. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Confronted with one of the trickiest problems in politics -- when to ignore rumors and misrepresentations and when to risk giving them greater visibility by rebutting them -- Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign began to push back aggressively on Thursday against what it said were unfounded and potentially damaging reports. Mr. Obama's campaign unveiled a new Web site on which it listed five sets of rumors about Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, along with responses intended to establish that they are baseless and false. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Republicans intensified criticism on Monday about an Obama campaign official's receiving preferential loans from Countrywide Financial, the beleaguered mortgage lender. The official, James A. Johnson, a vice chairman of the campaign who was recently picked to lead its vice-presidential search, took out loans in 2001 and 2003 below market rates, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Mr. Johnson is a former chief executive of Fannie Mae, the largest buyer of Countrywide mortgages. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton defended staying in the Democratic nominating contest on Friday by pointing out that her husband had not wrapped up the nomination until June 1992, adding, ''We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.'' Her remarks were met with quick criticism from the campaign of Senator Barack Obama, and within hours of making them Mrs. Clinton expressed regret, saying, ''The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy,'' referring to the recent diagnosis of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's brain tumor. She added, ''And I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any way offensive.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Senator Barack Obama drew the largest crowd of his campaign so far on Sunday, addressing an estimated 75,000 people who had gathered here on the banks of the Willamette River. ''Wow! Wow! Wow!'' were his first words as he surveyed the multitude, which included people in kayaks and small pleasure craft on the river on an unseasonably hot day in Oregon. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

John Edwards gave his long-awaited endorsement to Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday, bolstering Mr. Obama's efforts to rally the Democratic Party around his candidacy and offering potential help in his efforts to win over working class white voters in the general election. ''The Democratic voters in America have made their choice, and so have I,'' Mr. Edwards told a roaring crowd of more than 12,000 people here in the Van Andel Arena, on a day when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was trying to capitalize on her victory on Tuesday in West Virginia and convince superdelegates and contributors that she still has a chance to capture the Democratic nomination. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

One of the most confusing aspects of this Democratic primary race has been the arrays of tallies of elected delegates and superdelegates maintained by the news media and the campaigns. In the past week, the confusion has been even more pronounced, with one news organization after another declaring that by its count Senator Barack Obama had finally matched, and then surpassed, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in superdelegates who have endorsed a candidate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Rewind that tape again. John Edwards appeared on the morning shows on Friday and cheerfully subjected himself to grilling over the question of his possible endorsement in the Democratic primary. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]