Before 9 a.m., a group of lobbyists began showing up at the White House security gates with the chief executives of their companies, all of whom serve on President Obama’s jobs council, to be checked in for a roundtable with the president. Read full article > >

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White House visitor logs provide window into lobbying industry

This election is being fought along the traditional skirmish line of capital versus labor. President Obama projects himself as the protector of workers and families who are preyed upon by greedy and wealthy capitalists. Mitt Romney counters that the president doesn’t understand business and that his antagonism discourages private investment and job creation. This argument over contemporary capitalism is inevitable and legitimate, though in part misleading. Read full article > >

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Role of American capitalism on trial

Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, a close ally of President Obama in the upcoming election, slammed the president’s campaign Sunday for ads attacking Mitt Romney’s work for the private-equity firm Bain Capital. Read full article > >

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker slams Obama campaign attack on Romney’s work for Bain Capital

President Obama tells a Nato summit there are “hard days ahead” in Afghanistan as the alliance prepares to withdraw troops at the end of 2014.

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‘Hard days ahead’ in Afghanistan

CHICAGO — President Obama met here Sunday morning with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, just hours before opening a NATO summit where the alliance plans to formalize plans to turn over primarily responsibility for the war to Afghanistan’s security forces next year. Read full article > >

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Three men were planning to attack the campaign headquarters of President Obama and the house of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, among other targets in Chicago, prosecutors said Saturday.

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3 in Chicago Face Charges of Terrorism in Protests

Speaking after the G8 summit, US President Obama says leaders agree that economies must focus on jobs and growth to boost recovery.

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When President Obama joins other NATO leaders Sunday and Monday, the full extent of how his Afghan strategy has changed — from “war of necessity” to withdrawal on his terms — will be apparent.

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US President Obama hosts an opening dinner for G8 leaders, discussing North Korea, Syria and Iran, with the eurozone crisis likely to top Saturday’s agenda.

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Barack Obama welcomes G8 leaders

President Obama may have won New Hampshire in 2008, but the people behind Mitt Romney’s campaign believe their candidate’s chances are good this year.

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New Hampshire Vote Looks Close, and the Romney Team Is Hopeful

Opening the talks at Camp David, President Obama said sorting out the problem was a matter of extraordinary importance.

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VIDEO: G8 leaders gather as Greek tragedy looms

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President Obama welcomed new French President Francois Hollande to the White House on Friday, an initial meeting that comes as world leaders feel a renewed sense of urgency to contain the European debt crisis. Read full article > >

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“Anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned,” said President Obama in his 2012 State of the Union address , “doesn’t know what they’re talking about.” It was a “rah-rah America!” applause line for a president who needed to get the assembled Republicans out of their seats a few times over the course of the evening. But the line works literally, too. Whenever someone tells me that the United States is in decline, I have no idea what they’re talking about. And neither, I tend to think, do they. Read full article > >

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America’s not perfect, but it’s certainly not in decline

There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance that marriage conveys upon heterosexuals. That’s essentially the case President Obama made when he first announced his change of views. Read full article > >

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Same-sex marriage: Empathy or right?