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The Latest News and Developments For
Senator Barack Obama

Barack Obama's Latest Breaking News

• Obama takes charge, demands vote on health care AP via Yahoo! News - 34 minutes ago
  
  
  
• Obama wants a health vote soon USA Today - 1 hour, 51 minutes ago President Obama urged Congress on Wednesday to vote "in the next few weeks" on his final plan to revamp the nation's health care system, even as centrist Democrats whose votes will be critical expressed reservations.
  
  
• Obama wants a health vote soon USA Today - 1 hour, 55 minutes ago President Obama urged Congress on Wednesday to vote "in the next few weeks" on his final plan to revamp the nation's health care system.
  
  
• 'Most Wanted' special guest: President Obama USA Today - 2 hours, 30 minutes ago President Obama sat down with John Walsh at the White House on Wednesday for a special interview for the 1,000th 'America's Most Wanted.'
  
  
• Obama moves to rein in 'too-big-to-fail' banks AFP via Yahoo! News - Mar 03 4:24 PM
  
  
  

His parents separated when he was 2 years old and eventually divorced. He returned to Hawaii at the age of ten, graduating from high school in 1979 while living with his grandparents. He transferred to Columbia University, graduating in 1983 with a B. degree in political science specializing in international relations. He married Michele Robinson in 1992 and is the father of two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha.