ARTICLES BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
No free lunch (or dinner) for the president
WASHINGTON - There's no free lunch - or breakfast or dinner - for President Barack Obama on Thanksgiving Day. Or any other day for that matter.
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Detractors teeing off
CHILMARK, Mass. - President Barack Obama has spent less time away from the White House than his predecessors. But his two-week break on the resort island of Martha's Vineyard and hours on the golf course have his detractors teeing up as they highlight the slew of foreign policy crises currently …
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First lady bucks GOP on school lunch rules
WASHINGTON - First ladies typically avoid getting into public scraps, but Michelle Obama has jumped into perhaps her biggest battle yet.
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White House says Obama in excellent health
WASHINGTON - His frequent burger runs aside, President Barack Obama is in excellent health, the White House said Thursday in its first update on his well-being in nearly three years.
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First lady pledges to fight for school lunch standards
WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama on Thursday turned her annual garden harvest into a showcase for healthier school lunch standards and pledged to "fight until the bitter end" to keep them in place.
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At mudslide site, Obama mourns with survivors
OSO, Wash. - Swooping over a landscape of unspeakable sadness and death, President Barack Obama took an aerial tour Tuesday of the place where more than three dozen people perished in a mudslide last month. He pledged a nation's solidarity with those who are enduring "unimaginable pain and difficulty" in …
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