Madelyn Dunham

A presidential retreat in Kailua, Hawaii

2010-11-07 00:00:00

This laid-back beach town 12 miles northeast of Honolulu on windward Oahu has no hotels — which is just fine with the locals — but it can boast of being home to what some call the "winter White House." Kailua hosted the vacationing Obamas in...

Where's the historical IQ in this O.C. GOP woman? It's MIA

2011-04-19 21:36:20

Obama delves into Kansas family roots

2008-01-30 00:00:00

The candidate was at a loss for words Tuesday, which in this campaign is a rare occurrence. Standing in a packed gym in wind-swept Midwest oil country, Barack Obama was trying to explain how he and the 72-year-old white woman in the audience, with her...

A presidential quiz

2008-10-19 00:00:00

The 42 men who've been president of the United States share many characteristics besides membership in one of the world's most exclusive clubs. That means, looking at them as a group, we can extract an "average president." The data can't predict who'll...

Obama says middle class faces 'make-or-break moment' during Kansas visit

2011-12-06 21:14:00

With a nod to Theodore Roosevelt, President Obama positioned himself as the champion of the middle class while blasting the "you're-on-your-own economics" of the modern Republican Party, a message likely to form the basis of his reelection effort. The...

Obama: Healthcare costs must be cut

2009-06-25 16:24:14

by Peter Nicholas President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don't stand to......

The not-so-simple story of Barack Obama's youth

2007-03-25 00:00:00

The life stories, when the presidential candidate tells them, have a common theme: the quest to belong. A boy wants to find his place in a family where he is visibly different: chubby where others are thin, dark where others are light. A youth living in...

Obama's grandmother dies

2008-11-03 18:05:00

Sen. Barack Obama's grandmother, the woman he called "Toot" and who helped raised him, died just before the presidential election in her apartment in Honolulu. Aides said Obama was in his hotel room Monday morning in Jacksonville, Fla., doing brief...

Muere la abuela de Barack Obama en v�speras de las elecciones

2008-11-03 15:08:26

Obama Twice Visits Ailing Grandmother

2008-10-25 00:00:00

Barack Obama, briefly a grandson instead of a candidate, spent some quiet family time Friday with the ailing woman who helped raise him while a clutch of reporters, guards and gawkers waited outside her apartment building in Honolulu. The Democratic...

Obama's 'bittersweet' time

2008-11-04 00:00:00

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — During his final full day on the presidential campaign trail, Barack Obama's will was tested Monday by the death of his grandmother, someone who desperately wanted to see the election's outcome. Her passing as he was on the...

En todo EEUU millones de ciudadanos hacen largas filas para emitir su voto en una elecci�n hist�rica

2008-11-04 08:27:13

President-elect Barack Obama , along with sister Maya Soetoro-Ng (left) and long-time family friend Bobby Titcomb (second from left), returns from a seaside memorial for Obama's late grandmother Madelyn Dunham on the south-eastern coast of Oahu in Honolulu , Hawaii .

2008-12-23 00:00:00

Secret Service agents stand watch outside the First Unitarian Church where President-elect Barack Obama attends a memorial service for his late grandmother Madelyn Dunham in Honolulu , Hawaii . Obama arrived in his native Hawaii December 20 with his family for the Christmas holiday.

2008-12-23 00:00:00