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Obama on Why Michelle Was a Working Mom (at $316K Per Year): ‘We Didn't Have the Luxury for Her Not to Work’ By Terence P. Jeffrey April 9, 2012 (CNSNews.com) - Speaking Friday at what the administration called “The White House Forum on Women and the Economy,” President Barack Obama said that after his two daughters were born, he and his wife—both Harvard Law School graduates—could not afford the “luxury” of having her stay home with the children. In 2005, when Obama began serving in the U.S. Senate (and his daughters turned 5 and 7), he and his wife were...

"the President in another big match-up that's happening this year: the one in November." "It's college basketball time again — and as friends and co-workers gather around the water cooler to talk top seeds and Cinderellas, here's your chance to fill out a bracket with the President himself," the campaign writes. Anyone who outsources President Obama's own bracket will have their name published on the campaign website. Obama's bracket has not yet been released. The bracket challenge is a good way to raise money and collect emails from potential supporters — using the allure of sports and friendly competition to...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama is "outraged" by the murders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico of three people connected with the U.S. consulate there, a White House official said on Sunday. "In concert with Mexican authorities, we will work tirelessly to bring their killers to justice," White House National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said in a statement. A consulate employee and her husband, both U.S. citizens, were killed along with the husband of another employee who is a Mexican citizen, the statement said. "The president is deeply saddened and outraged by the news," Hammer said, adding that Obama "shares in...

The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violators, trying to transform it from a patchwork of jail and prison cells to what its new chief called a “truly civil detention system.”. The plan aims to establish more centralized authority over the system, which holds about 400,000 immigration detainees over the course of a year... Detention on a large scale must continue, he said, “but it needs to be done thoughtfully and humanely.” But Mr. Morton, a career prosecutor, said he was taking a new philosophical approach to...