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NEWS ABOUT: Maya Soetoro-Ng

Maya Soetoro-Ng stories: 6 news summaries

 Inside Obama's 
 Extended Family 

Half-siblings, step-family of president are famous now

Nov 16, 09 11:14 AM CST
(Newser) - New York takes a look at President Obama’s far-flung—and now famous—family, complete with a handy PDF diagram and nicknames to help you remember who is who. George, the youngest half-brother, is arguably the (second) most famous, thanks to a minor drug arrest followed by a memoir... More »

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Barack Obama • Maya Soetoro-Ng • Barack Obama Sr. • George Obama • Sarah Obama • Obama family • Mark Odoth Obama Ndesandjo

 Obama's Sister Moving to DC 


Jul 31, 09 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng is moving with her family from Hawaii to Washington for the next several months, reports the New York Times. Soetoro-Ng, the daughter of Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham and an Indonesian father, has quit her job as a high school teacher to write a book.... More »

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Barack Obama • Maya Soetoro-Ng • Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro • Obama family

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Obama's Grandmother Loses Battle With Cancer

Madelyn Dunham passes away at 86 on eve of historic election

Nov 3, 08 3:52 PM CST
(Newser) - On the eve of Election Day, Barack Obama's maternal grandmother died today in Honolulu after a long struggle with cancer. Madelyn Dunham, who helped raise Obama, had been in hospice care, the Chicago Tribune reports. The senator and his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng released a statement calling their 86-year-old grandmother "... More »

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Barack Obama • Obama 2008 • Maya Soetoro-Ng • Election 2008 • Madelyn Dunham

Obama Doesn't Shy From Hard Truths: Sister

'Typical white' grandma OK with depiction in his speech on race

Apr 7, 08 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's diverse family has remained silent since the flare-up over his former pastor's sermons. But in her first public comments since Obama's speech on race in America, half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng told the Telegraph their "typical white" grandmother, whose opinions on blacks sometimes made the candidate "cringe,"... More »

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Barack Obama • Jeremiah Wright • Maya Soetoro-Ng • Election 2008

Hawaii Expects Record Turnout

Obama's sis stumps for native son; Chelsea campaigns for mom

Feb 19, 08 8:51 AM CST
(Newser) - It's caucus day in the Aloha state, and Hawaiian election officials are expecting a record turnout, writes the Honolulu Advertiser—due in part to interest in native son Barack Obama, as well as the competitiveness of the race for the nomination. Neither candidate left wintry Wisconsin, which also votes today,... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Hawaii • Chelsea Clinton • Democratic nomination • Daniel Inouye • Maya Soetoro-Ng • Hawaii caucus • Aloha state

Obama Draws on the Audacity of Mom

Kansas-born Ann Dunham worked to uplift the poor in the world's most fractured places

Feb 11, 08 4:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s mother is sometimes described just as “a white woman from Kansas,” but Ann Dunham possessed an indomitable spirit and fierce open-mindedness that profoundly shaped her son. Dunham was a single mom and social activist who worked in Indonesia and Pakistan, and consulted for the World... More »

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Barack Obama • Indonesia • Maya Soetoro-Ng • Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro

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