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A scant 367 days ago, President Barack Obama was inaugurated amidst much fanfare.

What has the President done to merit winning the Nobel Peace Prize?

With the one year mark of the Obama Administration a few months away, some people are calling out the president for not passing legislation that would support the big talks of action his campaign threw out during the election.

With a federal investigation into Yoo’s legal advice to the Bush administration apparently winding down, University of California Berkeley leaders are preparing for a difficult decision — whether to punish a professor for his off-campus work.

President Barack Obama said Monday that he will seek “every single legal avenue” to block the payouts of $165 million in executive bonuses by American International Group, the insurance behemoth that taxpayers are spending billions to bail out.

A frustrated California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, unable to persuade just one more Republican to vote on a budget-saving $14 billion tax increase, followed through Tuesday on his threat to send 20,000 layoff notices to state workers.

New U.S. president Barack Obama has not slacked off during his first few days in office. Immediately following his inauguration he got to work addressing several pressing issues for our nation as of late, including the economy and the war on Iraq.

Many came together this past November with hopes to elect a government official that would not only bring a real change to Washington, but would be able to lead the country out of the many battles it is facing today.

On Tuesday afternoon, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African-American to sit in office.