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First lady lauds effort to preserve DC slave house
Michelle Obama says stories of toil and sweat by slaves once housed at a historic home within sight of the White House are an important part of U.S. history that must be preserved for future generations. The first lady commented Wednesday as the owners of Decatur House announced a $1 ...
What do we eat? New food map will tell us
Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought. Same goes for soda. Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the ...
First lady to high school grads: Live your dreams
First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: Strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit. Mrs. Obama spoke for 22 minutes to the graduates of Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School on ...
Michelle Obama speaks of 'hunger' for education
First lady Michelle Obama spoke passionately about the importance of education to the African-American community in a commencement address Friday, urging more than 600 graduates of Bowie State University to honor the school's history and to pass their commitment to education on to future generations. In her 15-minute address, the ...
AP Weekly News Calendar
?Thursday, May 16: CHITTAGONG — Covering latest of preparations and possible evacuations as Cyclone Mahasen expected to make a landfall Friday. PARIS — France's Constitutional Court is expected to rule on whether a law legalizing gay marriage and adoption by same-sex marriage violates the French constitution. WASHINGTON — President Barack ...
Obama's assets worth between $1.8M and $6.8M
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama held assets last year that were worth between $1.8 million and nearly $7 million, according to federal financial disclosure forms the White House released Wednesday. Required by law, the forms allow public officials to list their assets in broad ranges, such as ...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
Police: Trenton hostage situation resolved, 3 children safe TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A standoff with an armed man who took multiple hostages inside a Trenton home has ended and three children are safe, police said early Sunday. Word of the confrontation's conclusion came a short while after the standoff, which ...
Mrs. Obama: Seek out those with different beliefs
First lady Michelle Obama urged Eastern Kentucky University graduates on Saturday night to reach out to people with different political beliefs, saying the country would benefit from the conversations. "If you're a Democrat, spend some time talking to a Republican," Mrs. Obama told about 600 education, business and technology graduates ...
Prince Harry salutes war dead at Arlington
Britain's Prince Harry saluted America's war dead in somber remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, pausing, too, to place flowers on the tombstone of President John F. Kennedy and visit the grave of a British World War II hero buried far from home. There were none of the shrieking ...
AP National News Calendar
Eds: Major scheduled events for the week of May 12-18. Note that many events are subject to change at the last minute. The following economic reports will be issued in Washington (all times EDT): SUNDAY: No events of note. MONDAY: Commerce Department releases retail sales data for April, 8:30 a.m.; ...
Prince Harry opens weeklong US visit
A buttoned-down Prince Harry joined Michelle Obama in honoring military families Thursday and toured an exhibition in Congress about land-mines, opening a weeklong U.S. visit devoted to the wounded victims of war. Shrieking onlookers gave him the pop-star treatment, but he was all royal business. The British soldier-prince had one ...
Michelle Obama honors military mothers at tea
Michelle Obama and military mothers had high tea like the British on Thursday. The afternoon White House affair, hosted by the first lady and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, was to recognize the women for Mother's Day. Britain's Prince Harry, who is on a weeklong visit to ...
Lawmakers, White House discuss sexual assault
Congressional efforts to combat sexual assault in the military secured the support of the Obama administration as senior White House officials met privately Thursday with a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Outrage over the Pentagon's latest estimates on sexual assaults and two recent cases of officers overturning convictions have injected new ...
AP top news in Iowa at 3:58 p.m. CDT
Iowa restaurant owner guilty of harboring workers DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The owner of a restaurant in southern Iowa has pleaded guilty to employing cooks and dishwashers that he knew were in the country illegally. Ali Sengul, owner of the Tulip Garden Restaurant in Pella, pleaded guilty to harboring ...
Michelle Obama helps honor 2 Iowa institutions
First lady Michelle Obama presented 2013 National Medal for Museum and Library Service awards to 10 organizations across the country, including two in Iowa. Obama joined Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Susan Hildreth at a White House ceremony on Wednesday in announcing the awards. Among those honored are ...
First lady honors outstanding libraries, museums
Michelle Obama says the nation's libraries and museums are creating better, more informed citizens and doing it with fewer resources. The first lady commented Wednesday at the White House as she helped award public service medals to 10 institutions. Recipients of the 2013 National Medal for Museum and Library Service ...
PERSONAL HEALTH: TESTING MY SYSTEMS
c.2013 New York Times News Service For all her talent and determination to help children eat better, Michelle Obama could still pick up a few pointers from Helen Butleroff-Leahy, a 66-year-old former Rockette turned registered dietitian. £66 or $102.63. Butleroff-Leahy devotes her time to teaching children in disadvantaged neighborhoods about ...
First lady defends 'Let's Move' exercise campaign
First lady Michelle Obama says her campaign to improve young people's health is about the government providing information, not "telling people what to do." Mrs. Obama explained her "Let's Move" initiative in an interview broadcast Wednesday on NBC's "Today" show. The first lady for the past three years has been ...
Christie's comments on weight, health over time
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has spoken out publicly about his struggle with weight on many occasions, starting when he first ran for the state's highest office in 2009. He has frequently joked about his size while also seeking to identify with other Americans struggling to shed pounds, though he ...
Michelle Obama at book-signing: 'Buy away'
Michelle Obama on Tuesday returned to the business of selling her first book, and she started by telling scores of people waiting in line at a popular bookstore to "buy away" because Mother's Day is coming. "It's a great gift," she said of "American Grown: The Story of the White ...
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