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Born in Honolulu, Hawaii,Aug. 4, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was a student from Kenya who herded goats as a child. His mother, Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kan., was a student at the University of ...

A document shows a parent calling a children's book about Michelle Obama "leftist indoctrination." The parent demanded the book be removed from a Texas school district. This is one of many attempts to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new biography of President Barack Obama based on conversations with him, his family and political rivals will hit bookstores in April, publisher Alfred A. Knopf said on Monday. ...

NEW YORK, January 15: AETN has closed a number of deals for BIOGRAPHY: Barack Obama, less than a week ahead of his historic U.S. presidential inauguration. The hour-long program has been licensed to ...

Michelle Obama will appear on the cover of a comic book to be released Wednesday, US Weekly reports. Titled, “Female Force: Michelle Obama,” the comic book will be a biography of the First Lady.

CHICAGO -- A soon-to-be-released biography about Sen. Barack Obama portrays the Democratic presidential candidate as a far more calculating politician than his most ardent supporters might imagine.

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) President and CEO Jim Greenwood released the following statement on President Obama’s trip to North Carolina to meet with ...

What people say when questioned by a pollster about their political ideology, current events and the issues of race and gender is often vastly different than how they truly feel. The problem is that, ...

DENVER (Reuters) - Barack Obama burst onto the national stage four years ago with a speech describing himself as a skinny guy with a funny name and an improbable life story. On Thursday night, in a ...

In Barack Obama: The Story, journalist David Maraniss chronicles the president's "classic search for home." Maraniss says Obama's young life was... A Future President Finds Himself In New Obama Bio In ...