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German Chancellor Angela Merkel topped Forbes’ annual global ranking of the Most Powerful Women for the seventh time in eight years.
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It’s a contest driven by caricatures.
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama held total assets between $1.9 million and $6.9 million last year, with as much as $515,000 of it in JPMorgan Chase & Co checking accounts.
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The average meal at a chain restaurant contains more than half the calories, 1.5 times as much sodium and almost all the fat that people are recommended to consume in an entire day, researchers in Canada found.
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Democratic lawmakers and victims’ advocates said they will push to strip U.S. military commanders of the power to prosecute sexual assaults after a Pentagon survey found attacks jumped 35 percent over the past two years.
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President Barack Obama has worked to avoid racial politics during much of his presidency. Now, the structure promoting his legacy is at risk of getting caught up in them.
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Stephen Schwarzman, chief executive officer of Blackstone Group LP, said the world’s biggest private-equity firm will hire 50,000 U.S. military veterans in its portfolio companies by 2018.
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During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama’s team became famous for submitting almost everything they did to rigorous A/B testing. Staff members would send different versions of a message to small groups of randomly selected supporters, determine which produced the best response and then disseminate the winning appeal to the audience at large. The campaign made choices on the basis of hard data -- even when the results violated the theories of experienced political operatives.
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President Barack Obama is undertaking a week-long campaign, aided by families of victims in the Connecticut school shooting, to keep momentum going for what’s left of his gun-control proposals.
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First lady Michelle Obama, in a deeply personal speech that contrasted Chicago’s civic treasures with its urban blight, called for more community resources for youth programs and tougher federal laws to combat gun violence.
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