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Barack Obama: How well do you know America's 44th president?
Test your knowledge of the man currently in the Oval Office with this quiz on notable events – both large and small – from the Obama presidency.
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Election 101: What's the Republican primary calendar for 2012?
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Bestselling books the week of 10/20/11, according to IndieBound*
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In Pictures Gilad Shalit released
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Gilad Shalit deal: Which Palestinian prisoners will walk free?
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Barack Obama: How well do you know America's 44th president?
Test your knowledge of the man currently in the Oval Office with this quiz on notable events – both large and small – from the Obama presidency.
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Election 101: What's the Republican primary calendar for 2012?
Now that New Hampshire has set its primary for Jan. 10, the 2012 political calendar is largely set. Both political parties select their presidential nominees through state primaries and caucuses, with candidates amassing delegates as they go. Under Republican Party rules, a candidate needs 1,212 delegates to win the nomination. That’s half, plus one, of the total 2,422 delegates.
11/02/2011 05:23 pm -
Goldman Sachs: Superstar firm falls back to Earth
Goldman Sachs posts higher-than-expected loss of $428 million. Quarterly loss is only the second since the firm went public.
10/19/2011 02:19 am -
Social Security recipients see 3.5 percent raise
Social Security recipients have not received a raise since 2009. That is set to change in 2012, when Social Security checks will be about 3.5 percent more than the last two years.
10/19/2011 12:57 am -
Presidential debate turns into Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Republicans
The focus of Tuesday's Republican presidential debate was supposed to be Herman Cain, but Rick Perry and Mitt Romney went at each other like heavyweights, suggesting that each thinks the other is his main competition.
10/19/2011 12:36 am -
Mitt Romney's secret weapon: Iowa caucuses could go his way
Mitt Romney was not expected to do well in the Iowa caucuses and has put little effort into winning Jan. 3. But polls suggest that he might be well positioned for a victory.
10/18/2011 07:25 pm -
Robert Reich Republican debates have lots of viewers, but no answers
Tonight’s Republican debate may attract lots of viewers. It need not capture their minds.
10/18/2011 07:00 pm -
Is Herman Cain helping the GOP win the Hispanic vote?
Herman Cain has 'joked'" about erecting an “electrified barbed wire” on the US-Mexico border. DCDecoder asks how is that playing with Hispanics?
10/18/2011 06:55 pm -
Global warming a threat to polar bears? Judge orders review of US rule.
A judge rules that the US has met its obligations for protecting polar bears, but ordered a review of a special rule that excludes greenhouse gases from the list of threats to the bears.
10/18/2011 06:49 pm -
Stocks rise on hopes for progress in Europe
The Dow rose 180 points to 11577 during another day of wild swings for the stock market
10/18/2011 06:25 pm -
The Vote Where is Herman Cain's campaign money coming from?
Mitt Romney is collecting from Wall Street. Rick Perry is getting moolah from the oil and gas industry. It's harder to tell much about the donor base of Herman Cain, who is fifth in the GOP fundraising race.
10/18/2011 06:04 pm -
The Circle Bastiat Student loan debt: 'Occupy' movement's weakest talking point
The Occupy Wall Street movement is complex and raises many legitimate issues. Student loan debt is not one of them.
10/18/2011 05:00 pm -
Bilingual and struggling
A bilingual parent tries to keep a native tongue alive at home, a problem faced by many immigrants.
10/18/2011 04:53 pm -
With Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange finished, attention turns to security
With many of the Palestinians released in the prisoner exchange for Gilad Shalit going to the West Bank, focus will now be on ensuring that Israeli-Palestinian violence stays at its current low level.
10/18/2011 04:42 pm -
Africa Monitor Fighting between Boko Haram Islamists and Nigerian security rages on
While the Nigerian military claims that the fighting with Boko Haram in the country's north is under control, the lack of information from the region fuels doubt about the military's success.
10/18/2011 04:35 pm -
The Monitor's View Obama's push to quell a nuclear North Korea
Obama can't risk a big nuclear test by North Korea during the 2012 election campaign. Hints of talks with Pyongyang suggest the US is ready for a deal.
10/18/2011 04:27 pm -
Gilad Shalit deal boosts Hamas in West Bank as Fatah clings to support
Palestinian prisoners released in the Gilad Shalit deal were welcomed home in Ramallah amid an unusual display of support for Hamas.
10/18/2011 04:17 pm -
Africa Monitor Europe can improve upon US's 'conflict minerals' legislation: ICG
The European Union is debating how best to handle the issue of conflict minerals. International Crisis Group says it should not merely follow in the United States' footsteps, but go further.
10/18/2011 04:07 pm -
Why Republicans want to save parts of the Obama jobs bill
The Senate rejected the Obama jobs bill last week, but both Senate Democrats and House Republicans are trying to resurrect parts of it. Problem is, they can't agree on which parts.
10/18/2011 03:51 pm -
Occupy Wall Street movement intrigues, confounds the tea party
Even as analysts note similarities between the two populist uprisings, many tea party activists say a merger could never happen. Many are put off by Occupy Wall Street's civil disobedience and economic prescriptions.
10/18/2011 03:46 pm -
Annual PPI: Wholesale prices rose in September
Annual PPI – a gauge of wholesale prices – rises to 6.9 percent. But without energy and food, core annual PPI up only 2.5 percent.
10/18/2011 03:32 pm -
Bestselling books the week of 10/20/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
10/18/2011 02:56 pm -
Amid BRICS' rise and 'Arab Spring', a new global order forms
With American unilateralism ebbing, Western nations and the rising BRICS countries are still finding their way to a new geopolitical balance – and Arab Spring nations like Syria are caught in the middle.
10/18/2011 02:18 pm -
October unemployment rate to fall below 9 percent, predicts Gallup
The Gallup unemployment survey isn't the same as the Labor Department unemployment index, but it's close. Will this come up in the GOP presidential debate Tuesday night?
10/18/2011 02:16 pm -
Hillary Clinton arrives in Libya for an American victory lap
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was a voice for military intervention in Libya. Now, she's visiting Tripoli, basking in the mission's success and trying to boost US ties to the new government.
10/18/2011 02:01 pm
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