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The U.S. office overseeing billions of dollars for Afghanistan's rebuilding lacks leadership and focus at a time when aggressive, independent oversight of the country's reconstruction is more important than ever, three senators told President Barack Obama on Tuesday.
President Barack Obama called for a major new burst of federal spending Tuesday, perhaps $150 billion or more, aiming to jolt the wobbly economy into a stronger recovery and reduce painfully persistent double-digit unemployment.
The U.S. office overseeing billions of dollars for Afghanistan's rebuilding lacks leadership and focus at a time when aggressive, independent oversight of the country's reconstruction is more important than ever, three senators told President Barack Obama on Tuesday.
Barack Obama delivers the traditional Nobel Peace Prize lecture in Oslo on Thursday, the fourth U.S. president to be given the honor.
Abortion opponents failed to inject tougher restrictions into sweeping Senate health care legislation Tuesday, and Democratic leaders labored to make sure fallout from the controversy wouldn't hinder the drive to pass President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed a tax incentive for small businesses that add workers, even as Congress struggles to figure out how such an idea would work.
The White House on Tuesday instructed every federal agency to publish before the end of January at least three collections of "high value" government data on the Internet that never have been previously disclosed, an ambitious order to make the administration as transparent as President Barack Obama had promised it would be.
Republican lawmakers critical of global efforts to battle climate change said Tuesday they would head to the Copenhagen summit to undercut President Barack Obama's promises of US action.
The publisher of President Barack Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope" has stepped down.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama was elected on a promise to fix the problems at home. Americans praise him instead for escalating the war in Afghanistan and disapprove of his handling of the economy and health care.
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled a new program designed to ignite jobs growth and fight the "human tragedy" of high unemployment, while vowing to control the exploding deficit.
In President Barack Obama's hands, the $700 billion financial rescue fund offers a bit of bookkeeping magic: an opportunity to pay down the deficit while also spending more — thereby adding to it.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party end the year far weaker than they started it, according to a McClatchy-Ipsos poll released Tuesday.
Senate Democrats remained at odds Tuesday over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, with moderates cheering a move away from a new government insurance plan and liberals demanding in exchange an expansion of the federal Medicare program.
U.S. government agencies must publish their information online in "open formats," under a new open government plan released by U.S. President Barack Obama's administration.
Obama packs political punch into economic speech WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama packed an economic speech with a political punch on Tuesday, blaming Republicans for creating high deficits, mismanaging bank bailouts and obstructing efforts to reform healthcare. Obama, a Democrat,...
