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Obama returns to Arizona to tout broad U.S. housing recovery

August 24, 2021 at 1:59 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With vacant, half-built residential developments that gathered dust after the Great Recession, the U.S. Southwest once symbolized the 2008-2012 housing bust that wiped out $7 trillion in...

Obama returns to Arizona to tout broad U.S. housing recovery

May 23, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With vacant, half-built residential developments that gathered dust after the Great Recession, the U.S. Southwest once symbolized the 2008-2012 housing bust that wiped out $7 trillion in...

Obama to back mortgage finance reform to speed housing recovery

May 23, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will propose overhauling the U.S. mortgage finance system in a speech on Tuesday, weighing in on a tangled and polarizing problem that was central...

Obama open to making changes to surveillance, lawmakers say

November 3, 2021 at 6:39 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday told lawmakers he is open to changing controversial surveillance programs in order to restore public confidence and provide assurance the government is...

Obama open to making changes to surveillance, lawmakers say

December 24, 2018 at 3:33 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday told lawmakers he is open to changing controversial surveillance programs in order to restore public confidence and provide assurance the government is...

Senators reach deal to move student loans to market rates

August 24, 2021 at 1:23 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A coalition of Senate Democrats and Republicans have reached a tentative deal with President Barack Obama that would roll back a recent spike in interest rates on...

Obama pushes health plan as critical date draws near

August 24, 2021 at 1:29 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fending off delays and a barrage of political criticism of his signature healthcare law, President Barack Obama on Thursday touted benefits Americans already are reaping from the...

Senators reach deal to move student loans to market rates

May 23, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A coalition of Senate Democrats and Republicans have reached a tentative deal with President Barack Obama that would roll back a recent spike in interest rates on...

Michelle Obama, Laura Bush spotlight Africa women’s health

May 13, 2019 at 11:55 p.m.

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and predecessor Laura Bush combined their star power to draw attention on Tuesday to efforts to improve women's health and...

Obama starts long-awaited Africa tour at slave port

August 24, 2021 at 12:30 p.m.

GOREE ISLAND, Senegal (Reuters) - Almost four centuries after Africans started being shipped to North America as slaves, the first U.S. president of African ancestry on Thursday visited an infamous...

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