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Nation pauses to remember 9/11 attacks

Sep. 11, 2009
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama held a moment of silence outside the White House today, as New York and the nation paused on the eighth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks that killed 2,752 people.
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Michelle Obama visits 'Sesame Street'

NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- U.S. first lady Michelle Obama taped a segment for the children's TV program "Sesame Street" in New York this week.
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Michelle Obama's favorable ratings high

PRINCETON, N.J., April 2 (UPI) -- Americans have good views of Barack and Michelle Obama but a Gallup Poll Thursday indicated the first lady eclipses the president in favorable ratings.

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Michelle Obama on Vogue's March cover

Michelle Obama on Vogue's March cover

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Obama girls get look at White House

Obama girls get look at White House

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Clinton, Michelle Obama appear together

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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler