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Health Care

Obama To Push Health Care In Colorado

President Obama will tour several Western locales this weekend, including the western slope city of Grand Junction, Colo. The city is the site of an innovative program for controlling health care costs that the president wants to highlight.

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North American Leaders Vow Cooperation At Summit

President Obama, Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderon (center) and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper pose for an official photo at the Cabanas Cultural Center in Guadalajara, Mexico on Monday. Obama took part in his first summit of North American leaders in Mexico, with swine flu, Mexico's drug cartels and economic blight on the agenda. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Politics

North American Leaders Vow Cooperation At Summit

After a short, two-day meeting of President Obama and the leaders of Mexico and Canada, there were no big breakthroughs. But the leaders agreed to continue cooperating to battle the recession, violent drug traffickers and the spread of swine flu.

North American Leaders Vow Cooperation At Summit

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Tax Hike? Some Say Now's The Time To Pounce

On ABC's This Week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner opened the door to a middle-class tax hike. The White House quickly slammed it shut. But many experts say Geithner was right to leave the idea on the table, and a recent Gallup Poll shows Americans are generally satisfied with the amount of taxes they pay.

Tax Hike? Some Say Now's The Time To Pounce

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Tracking The Overhaul

Democrats Attack Health Insurance Industry

In search of a new edge to their health care efforts, President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have turned their guns on the insurance industry. They're counting on Americans' distrust of insurance companies to shore up wavering support for the President's health care agenda. The insurance industry says its impressive profits do not mean it is adding substantially to the cost of health care.

Democrats Attack Health Insurance Industry

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Race

One Beer Doesn't Solve Racial Divide

President Obama invited two men at the center of a racially-charged controversy to share a beer with him Thursday evening in the Rose Garden. Afterwards, one of the men called it a positive step for the whole country.

One Beer Doesn't Solve Racial Divide

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Business

What Brands Will Be Served At Beer Summit?

At the White House Thursday, President Obama will share a beer with police sgt. James Crowley and the Harvard University professor Crowley recently arrested, Henry Louis Gates Jr. The meeting is meant to diffuse tensions surrounding the arrest. But what kind of beer will they be drinking?

What Brands Will Be Served At Beer Summit?

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Health Care

Public Option Feels Pressure Amid Opposition

While President Obama's August deadline for House and Senate passage of health care reform will not be met, legislators are hard at work on the matter. A public insurance had been a must-have feature for Obama just a few weeks ago, but as key Republicans and moderate Democrats resist, the White House may have a tough call to make.

Public Option Feels Pressure Amid Opposition

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Tracking The Overhaul

Single Payer: The Health Care Plan Not On The Table

Many of the world's industrialized countries have a single-payer health care system, in which government administers all medical care. Support for such a system exists in the U.S.; even President Obama has expressed admiration for it. Yet it is absent from the debate.

Single Payer: The Health Care Plan Not On The Table

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Tracking The Overhaul

Obama: Overtreatment Drives Health Care Costs

President Obama, and experts from the Mayo Clinic, are advocating an end to the "fee for service" system that encourages doctors to order more office visits, tests and procedures — and pushes up costs for health care.

Obama: Overtreatment Drives Health Care Costs

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Health Care

Small-Business Support Sought On Health Care

Conscious of the impact health care policy changes will have on small business owners, both supporters and opponents of various plans to overhaul the health care system are now trying to paint themselves as champions of mom and pop entrepreneurs.

Small-Business Support Sought On Health Care

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World

Obama Challenges Africa To Take Control

President Obama is back in the White House Sunday morning after a weeklong trip overseas. His last stop was the West African nation of Ghana, where Obama noted that his family has shared in the tragedies of Africa's past, but added that today's Africans must take responsibility for their own future.

Obama Challenges Africa To Take Control

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Environment

G-8 Pushes Developing Nations On Climate Change

President Obama and the other G-8 leaders meeting in Italy agreed to try to limit the global increase in temperature. But the developing countries refused to set a numerical target for limiting their own greenhouse gases. Experts say without cooperation from developing countries, no effort to fight climate change can succeed.

G-8 Pushes Developing Nations On Climate Change

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World

Big Economies Agree To Global Warming Accord

G-8 summit leaders have pledged to combat global warming. For the first time, the United States has joined European countries in seeking to keep average temperatures from climbing more than two degrees celsius above their pre-industrial levels. The leaders were less specific about plans to achieve that goal over the next 10 years or so. Some environmentalists complain the group hasn't gone far enough.

Big Economies Agree To Global Warming Accord

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World

Obama Outlines New Vision Of U.S.-Russia Ties

Wrapping up a two-day visit to Moscow, President Obama painted a picture of the U.S. and Russia as partners aligned against common threats. But he acknowledged after talks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that on divisive issues there won't be "a meeting of the minds anytime soon."

Obama Outlines New Vision Of U.S.-Russia Ties

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