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• Obama: Help is on the way to hurricane zone

  September 3, 2012 LaPLACE, La. (AP) — President Barack Obama insisted on Monday that the federal government can help Americans in crisis, whether they’re autoworkers fearful that their company will disappear or Gulf …

• Analysis: 4-year progress query puts Obama in box

  September 3, 2012 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It’s a question that aides to any president seeking re-election should be ready to handle: Are Americans better off now than before he took office? This …

• Labor Day marked with parades, political speeches

  September 3, 2012 TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Parades, picnics and politicians celebrated the American worker on Labor Day, with President Barack Obama seeking votes from Ohio union members and rivals for Senate seats …

• Study questions how much better organic food is

  September 3, 2012 in Health WASHINGTON (AP) — Patient after patient asked: Is eating organic food, which costs more, really better for me? Unsure, Stanford University doctors dug through reams of research to find out …

• Marchers lament NC union stance but support Obama

  September 3, 2012 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Union activists walked a political tightrope on Monday — voicing support for President Barack Obama’s re-election bid while lamenting adversarial attitudes toward organized labor in the …

• Obama says Romney would bring a ‘losing season’

  September 3, 2012 TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — President Barack Obama warned union workers in football-crazy Ohio on Monday that Republican Mitt Romney would guide the nation to a “losing season,” imploring voters in …

• Clinton to urge ASEAN unity on South China Sea

  September 3, 2012 JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Monday for Southeast Asian states to present a united front to the Chinese in dealing with territorial disputes …

• Biden to organized labor: We’re with you

  September 3, 2012 DETROIT (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden had a simple Labor Day message for unionized workers: Stick with President Barack Obama because the other guys are worse. Biden told about …

• Medical marijuana backers seek inroads in South

  September 3, 2012 in Health LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The home state of the president who didn’t inhale has become an unlikely front in the battle over medical marijuana. This fall, Arkansas will be …

• Clinton decries violence in northwestern Pakistan

  September 3, 2012 JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on an Asian tour, condemned a suicide bomber for ramming his car into a U.S. government vehicle in northwestern Pakistan …

• Another disaster brings candidates to Gulf Coast

  September 3, 2012 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mitt Romney wasted no time after accepting the GOP presidential nomination in heading to Louisiana to see the damage from Hurricane Isaac, changing his schedule on …

• Obama’s Labor Day: Politics, presence in the Gulf

  September 3, 2012 TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Barreling through the presidential campaign’s competitive states, President Barack Obama will detour deep in the South on Labor Day, long enough to offer a presence and …

• Clinton to urge ASEAN unity on South China Sea

  September 2, 2012 BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling for Southeast Asian states to present a united front to the Chinese in dealing with territorial disputes …

• Neb., SD wildfires grow with help of strong wind

  September 2, 2012 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Wildfires in northwestern Nebraska tripled in size in less than 24 hours, as strong winds pushed flames through the rugged, rural terrain. More than 285 square …

• Days after Isaac, flooding and outages remain

  September 2, 2012 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Much of a finger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didn’t have any …

• DNC kickoff protest lively but largely uneventful

  September 2, 2012 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The kickoff protest ahead of the Democratic National Convention had the benefit of sunny skies, pent-up demand from demonstrators who were rained out in Florida and …

• Obama drops by ‘The Buff’ restaurant in Colorado

  September 2, 2012 BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — President Barack Obama has made an appearance in “The Buff,” visiting a restaurant by that name in Colorado. Obama was en route to a campaign speech … 1

• Dems seek to exploit advantage on foreign policy

  September 2, 2012 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Democrats sought to push foreign policy, one of President Barack Obama’s strengths, to the forefront of the White House campaign Sunday, casting Republican Mitt Romney as … 3

• Romney campaign defends omission of war talk

  September 2, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney’s campaign is defending the Republican presidential nominee’s decision to make no mention of the politically unpopular 11-year-old war in Afghanistan in his speech last week …

• Ex-Obama advisers seek health care cost control

  September 2, 2012 in Health WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of President Barack Obama’s former advisers are proposing major changes aimed at controlling health care costs as political uncertainty hovers over his health law. Call it …

• In Florida, Medicare is not a senior-only issue

  September 2, 2012 in Health WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — For Bruce Cargill, an 87-year-old retiree, Medicare is a “glorious program” that, along with Social Security, keeps millions of older Americans out of poverty. … 1

• Romney, Obama trade jabs as Dem convention looms

  September 2, 2012 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney cast President Barack Obama as a failed coach of a struggling team as he sought to capitalize on momentum coming out of his …

• Obama turns to technology during convention

  September 2, 2012 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — When the Democratic Party’s national convention opens this week, President Barack Obama’s target audience won’t be in the crowd. It will be the small sliver of …

• As Isaac pushes north, Gulf Coast slowly recovers

  September 1, 2012 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As the remnants of Hurricane Isaac pushed their way up the Mississippi valley on Saturday, spinning off severe thunderstorms and at least four tornadoes, some on …

• Obama to try to make case for sticking with him

  September 1, 2012 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Don’t expect President Barack Obama to try to reinvent himself next week at the Democratic Party’s national convention. Instead, he and a slew of his defenders …

• Fiery Obama embarks on march to the Dem convention

  September 1, 2012 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama lampooned the just-completed Republican National Convention as better-suited to an era of black-and-white TV and ” trickle-down, you’re on your own” economics Saturday, …

• ICE chief of staff resigns amid misconduct claims

  September 1, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Obama administration political appointee and longtime aide to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano resigned Saturday amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior lodged by at least …

• Clinton: US committed to security in Asia-Pacific

  September 1, 2012 RAROTONGA, Cook Islands (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday pledged renewed American commitment to security in the Asia-Pacific, where tensions are rising between China and …

• Obama thanks troops who served in Iraq

  September 1, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is thanking troops for their service as he marks the second anniversary of the end of combat operations in Iraq. He says he’ll work … 1

• Isaac promises drought relief, lousy holiday

  September 1, 2012 ST. LOUIS (AP) — When drought made Fourth of July fireworks a fire hazard, organizers in Chesterfield, Mo., decided to try again Labor Day weekend. Go figure: Now rain from …

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