Barack Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, will be the first black U.S. president, fulfilling the dreams and promise of the civil rights era. But for black immigrants and their children, Obama's swearing-in realizes other dreams.
A defense contractor who provided personal security to Afghan and Iraqi leaders has been charged with killing an Afghan civilian.
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