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I listened to Barack Obama's speech about Afghanistan and I played a little mind game with myself. "Will he mention the word 'opium'?" I bet $5 that he wouldn't, and my evil twin took the bet. At the end of the 35 minutes, I was triumphant. I transferred the...
I listened to Barack Obama's speech about Afghanistan and I played a little mind game with myself. "Will he mention the word 'opium'?" I bet $5 that he wouldn't, and my evil twin took the bet. At the end of the 35 minutes, I was triumphant. I transferred the...
Unflinching on a critical first test, Senate Democrats closed ranks Thursday behind $460 billion in politically risky Medicare cuts at the heart of health care legislation, thwarting a Republican attempt to doom President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The Czech Republic is ready to host a summit between President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev if Prague “is asked,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Milan Repka said today in a phone interview.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama signaled he’ll push for initiatives on energy efficiency and infrastructure spending as ways to spur job growth.
U.S. lawmakers told President Barack Obama's top advisers on Thursday not enough was being done to combat corruption in Afghanistan, singling out allegations against the Afghan president's brother, whom Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged was a problem.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- When President Barack Obama paired his decision to add 30,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan with a deadline to begin a withdrawal, he committed himself to a noncommittal strategy.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Pressure mounted on Germany and France to send more troops to Afghanistan after other NATO allies stepped up deployments in response to President Barack Obama’s buildup of American forces.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says a jobs forum he hosted at the White House generated many useful ideas for jump-starting job creation, some of which can be put into action "immediately" by his administration.
Unflinching on a critical first test, Senate Democrats closed ranks Thursday behind $460 billion in politically risky Medicare cuts at the heart of health care legislation, thwarting a Republican attempt to doom President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul.
President Barack Obama warned on Thursday the US government must act quickly in the fight against crushing unemployment, but cautioned that he had only limited funds to create jobs.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan may face probing questions about whether NATO member Turkey is tilting away from the West and toward Iran when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama next week.
Bennie Thompson got the memo. In a high-profile House hearing on Thursday, Rep. Thompson (D-Miss.), the Homeland Security Committee chairman, squashed Republican efforts to subpoena White House social secretary Desirée Rogers and put the blame for Tareq and Michaele Salahi's uninvited entry into the...
President Barack Obama promised at a White House jobs forum Thursday to take "every responsible step to accelerate job creation," including some ideas he said could be put into action quickly. He cited an expanded program to help make more U.S. homes energy-efficient as an example.
Unflinching on a critical first test, Senate Democrats closed ranks Thursday behind $460 billion in politically risky Medicare cuts at the heart of health care legislation, thwarting a Republican attempt to doom President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Thursday that it would be a mistake to focus too narrowly on the troubles black Americans face from the recession, rejecting criticism from the Congressional Black Caucus that the government is ignoring the economic plight of minorities.
