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/ 9 November 2008
At 8 o’clock last Monday morning, the day before he was to become president elect, learned that the woman who had raised him was dead.
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/ 8 November 2008
Valerie Jarrett is a Chicago business woman who has been close to both Obamas since the couple began dating.
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/ 8 November 2008
General Motors and Ford reported far deeper-than-expected quarterly losses on Friday and said their rate of cash burn had accelerated
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/ 8 November 2008
”I wish you would make up your mind, Mr Dickens. Was it the best of times or was it the worst of times? It could scarcely have been both.”
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/ 7 November 2008
United States employers cut payrolls by a much steeper-than-expected 240 000 jobs in October.
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/ 7 November 2008
Let’s be clear about this: Barack Obama has achieved an immense and historic victory.
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/ 7 November 2008
Barack Obama received his first classified intelligence briefing from the CIA on Thursday, lesson one in a crash course in how to be a US president.
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/ 7 November 2008
Dmitry Medvedev (43) and Barack Obama (47) share a couple of things in common. Both are exceptionally young, inexperienced and almost wholly untried.
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/ 6 November 2008
There are times when the usually glacial pace of social progress accelerates to such a degree that you feel you are experiencing it in real time.
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/ 6 November 2008
Barack Obama will pay homage to Abraham Lincoln when he takes the oath of office as the United States’s next president in January.
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/ 6 November 2008
World leaders have hailed Barack Obama’s triumph in the US election, and have called for the global superpower to change the way it does business.
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/ 5 November 2008
Google has cancelled plans for a search advertising partnership with Yahoo! amid opposition from antitrust regulators and advertisers.
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/ 5 November 2008
President-elect Barack Obama will quickly face big decisions as the US undergoes its first wartime change of administration since the Vietnam era.
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/ 5 November 2008
The man who once described himself as a ”skinny kid with a funny name” stood before the crowd and took upon his shoulders the weight of leadership.
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/ 5 November 2008
South African President Kgalema Motlanthe congratulated United States president elect Barack Obama on Wednesday on his victory.
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/ 5 November 2008
Barack Obama won the presidency and made history on a steady message of bringing change to a country that has been hungering for it.
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/ 5 November 2008
Sue Harris was not quite sure how to react to the victory of Barack Obama. At a party held by the local Republican party, she was lost for words.
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/ 5 November 2008
Barack Obama rode a wave of voter discontent to a historic White House victory on Tuesday, promising change as the first black US president.
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/ 5 November 2008
Democrat Barack Obama captured the White House on Tuesday after an extraordinary two-year campaign, defeating Republican John McCain.
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/ 4 November 2008
On one campaign flight in August, I was finally getting some rest when I was woken by a familiar baritone. I looked up, startled, to see Barack Obama.
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/ 4 November 2008
Barack Obama and John McCain faced the verdict of Americans voting on Tuesday after a long and bitter struggle for the White House.
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/ 4 November 2008
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain face the verdict of United States voters on Tuesday after a long and bitter struggle.
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/ 4 November 2008
Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama issued a barnstorming call for change at his final campaign rally on Monday.
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/ 3 November 2008
World stock markets turned mixed on Monday as already nervous investors waited for Tuesday’s United States presidential vote.
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/ 3 November 2008
Barack Obama stood on the threshold of history on Monday as polls gave the Democrat a solid lead over John McCain on the last day of campaigning.
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/ 3 November 2008
Whether it’s Barack Obama or John McCain who makes it to the White House, the briefing the president gets on the economy will be a sombre affair.
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/ 3 November 2008
There is nothing unusual about mixed-race people in the South, although in decades past there was no ambiguity about the subject.
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/ 3 November 2008
With the United States election just around the corner, who’d want to be in the shoes of either front-runner Barack Obama or John McCain?
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/ 2 November 2008
Millions of Americans aren’t just redoing their hair for Palin — they’re taking off their clothes too.
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/ 2 November 2008
The radicalism of Barack Obama lies not in his policies but in his face, writes Mark Danner.
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/ 2 November 2008
Americans choose on Tuesday between Barack Obama and John McCain in an epochal election that could enshrine their first black president.
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/ 1 November 2008
John McCain ramped up his attacks on Democratic rival Barack Obama on Saturday, describing his rival as stuck in the ”far left lane” of US politics.