President Barack Obama greets members of a long receiving line after stepping off Air Force One at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, October 7
Archive for October 7th, 2010
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phew, it’s getting hot in here
President Barack Obama at Bowie State University
WTOP: About three dozen people have been treated for illness during a rally featuring President Obama at Bowie State University.
Prince George’s County Fire and EMS spokesman Mark Brady tells WTOP numerous ambulances have been sent to the rally after people started fainting and became dizzy.
The problems could be related to warmer temperatures today. Brady says crowds at the rally were outside and packed shoulder to shoulder.
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not so bank-friendly, eh?
The White House announced Thursday afternoon that President Obama would not sign a bill that some consumer advocates worried would make it more difficult for homeowners to fight fraudulent foreclosures.
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oh you pretty things!
President Barack Obama speaks at a rally at Bowie State University, Maryland for incumbent Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley
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one pen, two bills
President Barack Obama signs the Reducing Over Classification Bill as Rep. Jane Harman, D-CA, looks on in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on October 7
President Barack Obama signs the Intel Authorization Bill as Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-TX, the House Select Intelligence Committee chairman, looks on in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on October 7
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progress
WSJ: In a good sign for the job market, the number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly fell last week to their lowest level since July 10.
Initial unemployment claims dropped by 11,000 to 445,000 in the week ended Oct. 2, the Labor Department said in its weekly report Thursday. New claims for the previous week, ended Sept. 25, were revised upward slightly to 456,000 from 453,000.
Economists polled by Dow Jones Newswires had predicted new claims would rise by 2,000.
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p(r)ez
Artist Mauro Perucchetti poses for a photograph with his sculpture ‘Feeding the 5000’, incorporating the bust of Barack Obama on top of a giant American Pez sweet dispenser, in the Halcyon Gallery, London, on October 6
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take a bow
Lynne Silosky, a niece of Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller, curtsies with First Lady Michelle Obama during a meeting with Miller’s family in the Oval Office, Oct. 6, 2010. Later, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, President Barack Obama awarded Staff Sergeant Miller the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic actions in Afghanistan. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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