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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Yeah, so Obama is in Cuba. A bunch of the Drive-By Media are in Cuba and they're wearing Che Guevara shirts and other Cuban revolutionary garb. Chris Cuomo, the son of Mario "The Pious" is wearing a shirt that Castro gave Mario "The Pious," as he's there with ABC. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: As I said to open the program, President Obama has landed in Havana. One small step for man, one giant leap for Marxism. We have a montage of Drive-By Media types. This is the most excited they have been for an airplane landing since Gorbachev...

Millions of Kenyans are celebrating the long-awaited return of Barack Obama, who on Friday will visit his father's homeland for the first time as president to attend the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi. Obama's visit will focus on economic development and counterterrorism efforts within the country against the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab, but it comes amid widespread abuse by Kenyan security forces of Muslims, refugees, and journalists. This has raised worries among rights advocates that he risks lending undue legitimacy to one of Africa's more unscrupulous regimes. Similar concerns have been voiced about a presidential trip to Ethiopia that...

Friday, Nov. 5—Obama leaves Washington. Saturday, Nov. 6—Arrives Mumbai, India; holds meetings with business leaders, others. Sunday, Nov. 7—Travels to New Delhi. Monday, Nov. 8—Meetings with Indian government officials in New Delhi. Tuesday, Nov. 9—Travels to Jakarta, Indonesia. Wednesday, Nov. 10—Speech in Indonesia; travels to Seoul, South Korea. Thursday, Nov. 11—In Seoul, speaks to U.S. troops for Veterans Day; Opening ceremonies for Group of 20 economic summit. Friday, Nov. 12—G20 working sessions, news conference; Departs Seoul for Yokohama, Japan. Saturday, Nov. 13—Attends meetings for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Yokohama, Japan. Sunday, Nov. 14—Visits Great Buddha statue before departing Japan...

Europeans might have reason to feel disappointed with Barack Obama. The American president arrives this week in Europe to pick up his Nobel Peace prize just as he has nearly doubled the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan. This fall, Obama found plenty of time to tour Asia, while missing the 20th anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall. And Obama originally planned to spend just hours at the Copenhagen conference on global warming, which for many Europeans is the world's No. 1 problem. Nevertheless, Obama-mania lives on in the hearts of millions here. A poll released Friday and...

New figures reveal that Dean has done a woeful job of raising money for the party since he became party chief. After essentially matching the Republicans in fund-raising in 2004, the Democratic National Committee raised $14.1 million in the first quarter of 2005, while the Republicans raised $32.3 million, according to the Federal Election Commission. Dean attracted about 20,000 new donors, but the Republican National Committee picked up 68,200.

HOMELAND INSECURITYLarry Klayman detained at airportGovernment watchdog, Senate candidate cuffed after bomb joke Posted: February 23, 20041:54 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Larry Klayman – the former head of government watchdog Judicial Watch and current U.S. Senate candidate from Florida, who has been critical of the feds over security issues – was reportedly detained and handcuffed at a Washington airport after joking about a bomb. Larry Klayman The Washington Post reports Klayman approached a metal detector at Reagan National Airport last fall and announced the cat container he was carrying was not a bomb. According to another waiting passenger nearby, Klayman told...