Video: Maersk captain testifies

Former hostage and captain of the Maersk Alabama Richard Phillips testifies before Congress, telling lawmakers that arming crew members is not the ultimate defense against pirate attacks.

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Video: White House aide's family likely has swine flu

A member of the U.S. delegation who helped prepare Energy Secretary Steven Chu's trip to Mexico City has demonstrated flu-like symptoms and his family members have tested probable for swine flu.

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Video: Biden tells family to stay off planes, subways

Joe Biden said Thursday he advised his family to stay off airplanes and subways because of the new swine flu, a remark that forced the vice president's office to backtrack and prompted one airline official to complain about "fear-mongering."

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Video: Congress pressed for more war money

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates are urging Congress for fast action on a spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Video: At 100 days, Obama confident, but not content

President Barack Obama marked his 100th day in office with a prime-time news conference, declaring himself pleased with his fledging administration, but not content.

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Video - Napolitano: 'ultimate scope' of outbreak unknown

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says federal officials recognize that dealing with the spread of the swine flu virus will be 'a marathon, not a sprint.'

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Video - Obama: Sen. Specter has my full support

Speaking at The White House, President Barack Obama said he will offer Sen. Arlen Specter his full support when Specter runs for re-election in 2010. Specter announced Tuesday that he will switch his party affiliation to the Democrats.

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Video: Obama calls first 100 days tense but fruitful

President Barack Obama told a Missouri crowd Wednesday that during his first 100 days in office, the nation has begun to 'pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off' from the economic downturn.

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Video - Obama: Sebelius sworn in quickly as HHS Sec'y

Kathleen Sebelius was confirmed and sworn in as the nation's health and human services secretary. President Obama says Sebelius will have to hit the ground running to deal with swine flu health emergency.

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Video: Obama's 100 days in Iraq

As commander-in-chief, President Barack Obama has moved quickly to fulfill a compaign promise to bring the war in Iraq to a close within the first years of his presidency.

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Video: Iowans take stock of Obama's 100 days

A family in Iowa that is split in its political views examines what President Barack Obama has done and if those actions are beneficial for the country as a whole.

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Video: What's behind Specter's party switch?

Sen. Arlen Specter cited a potentially-tough primary race in switching from the Republican to Democratic party, but a look at his voting record and the political makeup Pennsylvania may offer other clues as to why he decided to change.

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Video: Obama calls New York City flyover a 'mistake'

President Barack Obama says it was a mistake for one of his official airplanes to be sent zooming past the New York City skyline for a publicity photo shoot.

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Video: Napolitano announces travel warnings to Mexico

The head of the Homeland Security Department says travel warnings to Mexico will remain in place as long as swine flu is detected.

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Video - Barack Obama: The first 100 days

The Associated Press is asking a variety of experts to assess President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office. This week, the Cato Institute's Gene Healy weighs in.

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Video - Obama: Swine flu cause for concern, not alarm

President Barack Obama says the outbreak of swine flu is cause for concern, not alarm. Obama says the US declared a national health emergency as a precaution.

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Video: 20 confirmed Swine Flu cases in U.S.

Dr. Richard Besser, Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the United States has 20 swine flu cases in five states.

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Video: Protesters, police clash near IMF meeting

More than 100 protesters upset with the way world leaders have handled the economic crisis clashed with police Saturday outside the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings.

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Video: GOP: Time to mimic the French

In the GOP weekly radio and Internet address, Sen. Lamar Alexander says the U.S. should follow the example of France, which promoted nuclear power decades ago.

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Video - Obama: Time for Washington to tighten its belt

During his weekly address, President Barack Obama said it is time that Washington start to cut spending, like many American families have been forced to do. He outlined $2 trillion in cuts that he wants to see enacted in the coming years.

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Video: Obama was 'briefly relocated' during lockdown

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed that President Barack Obama was 'briefly relocated' after a single-engine airplane strayed into restricted air space near the U.S. Capitol on Friday.

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Video: Gore endorses House global warming bill

Former Vice President Al Gore urged lawmakers Friday to overcome partisan differences and take action to reduce greenhouse gases, calling the climate issue the most important ever put before Congress.

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Video: Obama pledges protections for credit-card users

President Barack Obama said Thursday he is determined to get a credit-card law that eliminates the tricky fine print, sudden rate increases and late fees that give millions of consumers headaches. AP's Mark Smith reports.

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Video: White House struggles with torture issue

President Barack Obama struggled to quell Democratic demands for a probe of Bush administration interrogation techniques on Thursday, at the same time he came under criticism from Republicans over his handling of the sensitive issue.

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Video: Geithner gets laugh over tough job

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was quizzed at a Washington event whether he ever second-guessed taking the top job at the US Treasury Department.

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Video - Clinton: Bush's Iran policy was a failure

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized the Bush administration Thursday for what she called a failed eight-year effort to isolate Iran that has only increased concerns about Iranian influence.

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Video: Lou Dobbs in D.C.

Lou Dobbs tapes his radio show at The Palm restaurant in Washington, D.C.

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Video: Conservative group backs Miss California USA

The conservative Family Research Council threw its support behind Carrie Prejean, Miss California USA. The pageant contestant has come under fire for her answer to a question about same-sex marriage.

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Video: Parents Disturbed By "Morning After" Pill Decision

The Food and Drug Administration said it will not fight a judge's ruling opening access to the "morning after" pill.

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Video first person: 'moral' duty to probe torture

Brushing aside the president's suggestions, Congressional Democrats pushed for investigations into the Bush administration's harsh interrogation of terror suspects. Steve Vladeck, an Associate Professor at American University, weighs in.

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Video: Clinton disses Cheney on torture memos

Hillary Clinton stepped directly into the middle of this week's political fray when she questioned former Vice President Dick Cheney's credibility on the torture memos recently released by the Obama administration.

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Video - Clinton: Imperative to stop Iran on nukes

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is an imperative for the United States, which is taking a more active role in pursuing that goal.

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Video: Supreme court debates school strip searches

The Supreme Court has heard arguments over a school's strip search of 13-year-old girl who was accused of having ibuprofen.

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Raw Video: Obama signs national service bill

President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college.

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Video - Iran: 'respect for Saberi ruling'

Iran says an Iranian-American journalist jailed for espionage can appeal but says the U.S. should 'show respect' for its court rulings.

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Video: Obama thanks CIA for work against America's foes

President Barack Obama is telling CIA employees that they must do their work scrupulously because they are standing as a security barrier for Americans who face attack from people who have no scruples.

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Video: Waterboarding identities revealed

A closer look at memos President Barack Obama released last week reveals which terror suspects were waterboarded and how many times.

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Video: Obama sees positive signs from Venezuela, Cuba

President Barack Obama on Sunday suggested Cuba release its political prisoners and strongly defended his handshakes with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the end of the Summit of the Americas.

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Raw video: Chavez gives Obama book

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez shook President Barack Obama's hand on Saturday at the Summit of the Americas, patting him on the shoulder and giving him a book about Latin America's exploitation by foreign powers.

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Video: Obama calls for government spending cuts

President Barack Obama said Saturday he will ask all of his department and agency heads for specific proposals for cutting their budgets at his Cabinet meeting early next week as he searches for ways to streamline government spending.

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Video: Bush era memos on waterboarding released

In the aftermath of Sept 11, CIA operatives were allowed to shackle, strip, slam and waterboard terror suspects. The Obama administration has released Bush-era memos graphically detailing, and authorizing such grim methods.

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Video: Piracy suspect to be tried in New York

The captured Somali pirate who held a merchant ship captain hostage will be brought to New York to face trial. No charges have been formally filed, but the suspect could face charges that would carry a sentence of life in prison.

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Video: NY governor introduces gay marriage bill

NY Gov. David Paterson introduced a bill Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage, comparing the effort to the fight for the abolition of slavery.

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Video: Obama says working families tax burden lessened

President Barack Obama seized the opportunity on tax-filing day to declare that he's working toward 'a simpler tax code that rewards work and the pursuit of the American dream.'

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Video: Clinton announces moves against pirates

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday announced a four-point diplomatic initiative aimed at rolling back the rise in pirate attacks on commercial ships off the Somali coast.

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Video: 'Tea parties' rally against govt. spending

Thousands of protesters, some dressed like Revolutionary War soldiers and most waving signs with anti-tax slogans, gathered around the nation Wednesday for a series of rallies modeled after the original Boston Tea Party.

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Video: Obama sees economic hope, long recovery

President Barack Obama said in a major speech on the economy Tuesday that the United States faced a long slog in finding its way out of the economic and financial tumult battering the country but repeated that he is seeing signs of hope.

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Video - Obama: US resolved to halt piracy threat

President Barack Obama has made his first public comments about the piracy standoff off the Horn of Africa.

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Video: President Obama eases barriers on Cuba

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says President Barack Obama is easing restrictions on travel and money transfers by Cuban Americans to family in Cuba.

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Video: GOP attacks Obama, Democrats on taxes

In the GOP radio and Internet address, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty says President Barack Obama has talked about tax relief, but his budget suggests he'll be raising taxes.

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Video: Obama talks holidays, Europe trip in address

President Barack Obama invoked Christian and Jewish holidays on Saturday to urge nations to confront together the challenges he saw firsthand during last week's marathon trip to Europe.

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Video - Obama: Economy showing 'glimmers of hope'

President Barack Obama says that the economy is beginning to show "glimmers of hope" but remains under "severe stress."

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Video: Some parents upset about Easter Egg Roll

Some Washington, D.C. parents are upset at the way tickets to this year's White House Easter Egg Roll were distributed. 100 tickets were set aside for gay and lesbian families. The annual Easter Egg Roll is Monday.

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Raw Video: Obama economic adviser heckled

Hecklers disrupt Lawrence Summers, director of President Barack Obama's National Economic Council, as he speaks to the Economic Club of Washington.

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Video - First Person: John Holdren on global warming

Tinkering with Earth's climate to chill runaway global warming, a radical idea once dismissed out of hand, is being discussed by the White House as a potential emergency option, according to the president's new science adviser.

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Video: Biden welcomes troops home from Iraq

Vice President Joe Biden travelled to Fort Bragg, North Carolina on Wednesday to welcome home the 18th Airborne Corps from Iraq.

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Raw Video: Obama returns from overseas trip

President Barack Obama is back home following a whirlwind trip in which he traveled to Britain, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Iraq.

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Video: Gates to cut several major weapons programs

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is proposing deep cuts to some big weapons programs such as the F-22 fighter jet as the Pentagon takes a hard look at how it spends money.

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Video: Obama touts global alliances

In his weekly address Saturday, President Barack Obama said problems menacing the United States' security and economy also threaten an increasingly interconnected world.

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Video - Obama: Europe, America must halt 'drift'

Cheered on a visit to France, President Barack Obama is warning America and Europe must halt a dangerous drifting apart.

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Video: Gay marriage legalized in Iowa

Gay rights activists are celebrating after Iowa's Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage.

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Video: $44 billion in stimulus for schools released

The Obama administration has released $44 billion, the first round of school dollars from the economic stimulus package. Education Secretary Arne Duncan made the announcement Wednesday.

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Video: G20 leaders hail turning point

Leaders of the G20 nations agree to pump an additional trillion dollars into the troubled global economy through extra funding for groups like the International Monetary Fund.

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Video - General: Afghan-Pakistan insurgents get stronger

Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, said the U.S. would take the fight to the Taliban and insurgent forces in both Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.

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Video - Attorney: Prosecutors' misconduct was stunning

The defense attorney for former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens said he's grateful to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for seeking to drop the government's recent conviction of Stevens on corruption charges due to prosecutorial misconduct.

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Video: Judges deal Coleman crippling blow in Minn. race

A special court has ordered further review of 400 absentee ballots in the Minn. Senate race, dealing a big blow to Republican Norm Coleman's effort to overtake Al Franken.

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