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President Barack Obama will turn to his unofficial "secretary of explaining stuff," former President Bill Clinton, on Tuesday to help with a final push to extol the benefits of U.S. healthcare reform before new insurance exchanges go live on October 1. Obama, who is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, will meet with his most recent Democratic predecessor at the Clinton Global Initiative, a conference where the two men will talk about Obama's healthcare reform law, which Republicans continue to try to repeal.

Election '10: The future debated the past in Nevada on Thursday night, with the Tea Party's Sharron Angle demonstrating why the Democrats will no longer be the majority and Harry Reid will no longer be their leader. It was no easy task for Sen. Harry Reid to stand up there and try to explain why he deserved re-election as senator from a state with 14% unemployment and a foreclosure rate five times the national average. If the policies of an administration whose legislation he quarterbacked through the Senate were working, it is certainly not evident in Nevada. This time around,...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Media organizations say they are being allowed only limited access to areas impacted by the Gulf oil spill through restrictions on plane and boat traffic that are making it difficult to document the worst spill in U.S. history.

US president Barack Obama’s carefully calibrated reply referring to concerns that Pakistan’s nuclear arms might fall into militants’ hands, appeared to suggest that the US has secondary back-up plans in the event of any exigencies, something the intelligence analysts’ community has long considered inevitable. When the reporter followed up to seek a more precise answer, asking if in the worst case scenario, the US military could secure the nuclear weapons, Obama responded crisply: ‘‘I’m not going to engage in hypotheticals of that sort. I feel confident that that nuclear arsenal will remain out of militant hands. Okay?’’ There is strong...

Barack Obama could learn a lot from Ronald Reagan. If nothing else, he could learn something from his movies. Namely "Knute Rockne: All American." That's the one in which Knute Rockne is coaching the men of Notre Dame against Army. After the first half, the cadets have whooped on the Irish pretty good and it's looking like a blowout. Trailing by a country mile, the coach has a talk with his players. And he encourages them. He inspires them. He leaves them fired up and ready to charge out the door and onto the field. Onto the field where both...