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Gasoline prices are now at levels unseen since the last Democratic president. Although on Tuesday prices slipped two-tenths of a penny, according to data from the American Automobile Association reviewed by ABC News, the average price of $3.043 per gallon of regular gas was 62 percent higher than a year ago, when the average was $1.879 per gallon. ABC reported that gas prices have not been this high since 2014, when former President Barack Obama was in the White House.

"He had very tough things to say about the United States," said Ben-Eliezer, a member of the Labor Party who has held talks with Mubarak on numerous occasions while serving in various Israeli coalition governments. "He gave me a lesson in democracy and said: 'We see the democracy the United States spearheaded in Iran and with Hamas, in Gaza, and that's the fate of the Middle East,'" Ben-Eliezer said. "'They may be talking about democracy but they don't know what they're talking about and the result will be extremism and radical Islam,'" he quoted Mubarak as saying. Meanwhile, Doug Schoen,...

God forbid the cameras catch Barack Obama playing golf. Almost inevitably, the US president in the past few days has been forced to take full “buck stops with me” ownership of the oil spill crisis as its enormity has unfolded. That means Mr Obama is effectively on a wartime footing until the leak is plugged – an event that could be as far away as August following the failure of the “top kill” on Saturday. It also means that any display of insouciance on his part will be punished at twice the speed and twice as hard as it otherwise...

The number of U.S. metropolitan areas with jobless rates above 15% increased in November, according to government figures released Tuesday, despite the biggest one-month drop in the national rate in more than three years. The Labor Department said 17 of 372 metropolitan areas surveyed suffered unemployment rates of at least 15% last month, up from 15 metro areas in October. National unemployment improved to a seasonally adjusted 10% in November from the 26-year high of 10.2% hit in October. The rate had climbed for 12 out of the previous 13 months before November. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com expect the national...

From The Sunday Times February 1, 2009. ‘Jimmy Carter’ tag has Obama wincing Republicans are fighting back by branding the president as naive abroad and wasteful at home, like one of his party’s predecessors Sarah Baxter, Washington LESS than two weeks into his administration, President Barack Obama is being portrayed by opponents as a new Jimmy Carter - weak at home and naive abroad - in an attempt to dim his post-election glow and ensure that he serves only one term. The charge has stung because it was made privately by Hillary Clinton supporters during a hard-fought primary campaign and...