Obama visits grandfather's Kansas town
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For all the talk about Barack Obama's quest to be the first black president, his visit to his grandfather's hometown Tuesday was a reminder that it is only half the story.
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Barack Obama wants to hear about the challenges facing rural communities.
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Between campaign stops in his bid for the White House, Democratic front-runner Barack Obama has been making calls regarding the presidential election and resulting violence in his father's homeland of Kenya.
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Why a trip to Kenya by the Illinois Senator, and possible future U.S. President, was more than just a homecoming
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Sen. Barack Obama pushed through surging crowds and hurtled down roads lined with screaming fans Saturday before settling into the calm of a quiet meal with his grandmother in the Kenyan hamlet where his father grew up and is buried.
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US Senator Barack Obama visits a key political testing ground amid fresh speculation about political ambitions.
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois  - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama opens his 2008 White House run on Saturday in a setting rife with symbolism and historic links to Abraham Lincoln's fight to end slavery.
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At the end of a dusty, dirt road lined with mango and mimosa trees, Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives sat outside on plastic chairs surrounded by chickens and drying corn kernels, listening to radio reports from New Hampshire.
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In the days since he was elected to the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama has chatted by phone with President Bush, had his picture in People magazine and appeared several times on national television.
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Democratic Sen. Barack  Obama opens his 2008 White House run on Saturday in a setting  rife with symbolism and historic links to Abraham Lincoln's  fight to end slavery.
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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama assured Western voters Saturday he believes in Jesus as well as the rights of gun owners.
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Democrat Barack Obama, who would be the first black president, has white ancestors who owned slaves, according to a genealogical researcher.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is the "Harry Potter parent" who has read all six books about the boy wizard's adventures with his older daughter, his wife said Thursday.
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The school that U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama attended in a posh, leafy district of Jakarta was founded by Indonesia's former colonial rulers as a school for Europeans and the Indonesian nobility.
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The possible Presidential candidate got a warm reception in the key state. But once voters get to know him better, will Obama's inexperience be an asset or a liability?
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BENTON, Ill. -- In 2004, as a state legislator running for the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama came to this small town 300 miles from Chicago to pledge support for southern Illinois' struggling coal country.
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When Sen. Barack Obama slipped into Sen. Robert Byrd's Capitol office one day last year, he was seeking counsel from an elder who had been in the Senate since before Obama was born.