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Alaskan Island Giveaway?

Posted on March 27, 2012

Q: Is President Obama giving away several Alaskan islands to Russia? A: No. The U.S. has never claimed ownership of the islands identified in viral emails and websites. They lie far closer to the coast of Siberia than to Alaska.

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More State of the Union

Posted on January 29, 2010

A section of our story "Obama’s State of the Union Address" was inadvertently dropped when we posted the article Thursday. It shows that Obama spoke a little too sweepingly when he claimed that lobbyists have been cut out of policymaking jobs in his administration. We’ve added the section to the …
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