By The Associated Press The Associated Press   – Thu Jun 4, 9:04 am ET Text of President Barack Obama’s speech at Cairo University, as provided by CQ Transcriptions. Good afternoon. I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar [...]

Quite a few of Barack Obama’s “friends from the past” have popped up recently. It’s doubtful whether he even knows their names, but in the Chicago Jewish community many people really are long-time friends of the president-elect. Some of the older people in the community say that they “raised him,” while others half-jokingly call Obama [...]