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Obama Will Stop Campaigning for Two Days

Staff / Truthdig Oct 21, 2008 Barack Obama will spend Thursday and Friday off the campaign trail in order to visit his ailing grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. Obama was raised in part by his grandparents, and has credited his grandmother with teaching him "values straight from the Kansas heartland." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Claims Successful Hit on Faulty Satellite

Staff / Truthdig Feb 22, 2008 The official reason the U.S. military offered for its show of fireworks Wednesday night high above the Pacific was to shoot down, using an anti-satellite missile, a failed spy satellite before it might do damage upon reentry. However, not everyone read the skywriting that way. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Wins Again

Staff / Truthdig Feb 20, 2008 Barack Obama once again swept the evening's contests, but the big surprise came in Wisconsin, where Hillary Clinton invested much time and money and where the two candidates got caught in a nasty air war. He beat her there by roughly 18 points. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Missile Defense Test a Direct Hit

Staff / Truthdig Oct 28, 2007 On Friday night, not long after Russian President Vladimir Putin invoked the historical specter of the Cuban missile crisis in reference to President Bush's planned missile shield in Europe, the U.S. successfully carried out another missile defense test off the coast of Kauai. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Molly Ivins: Bush’s Hawaiian Education

Staff / Truthdig Jun 22, 2006 Bush just designated a stretch of the Hawaiian Islands a national monument after watching a documentary about the ocean there. How nice. So what, exactly, is his excuse for not even watching Al Gore's movie on a slightly more important environmental issue? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )