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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...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is giving different explanations of its July 2011 deadline for the start of an Afghanistan troop withdrawal, assuring foreign officials that it applies only to the 30,000 to 35,000 additional U.S. troops that President Barack Obama is sending next year, but suggesting to Congress that it covers all U.S. forces.
President Barack Obama urged corporate America on Thursday to help tackle the nation's highest unemployment in 26 years but also hinted at federal tax credits and aid to states to ease jobless woes.
WASHINGTON — With the jobless rate rising and his approval ratings sinking, President Barack Obama hosted academics and leaders of business and labor at a White House jobs summit Thursday, seeking advice on how to boost employment.
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.
After months dealing with economic misery, soaring unemployment, and a war going wrong, President Barack Obama sought solace in the season Thursday, by lighting the US national Christmas tree.
Three Secret Service officers have been put on administrative leave after the security breach at last week's White House dinner, an episode President Barack Obama said hasn't shaken his confidence in his protectors.
Participants in President Barack Obama's jobs forum Thursday broke into six groups to discuss job creation strategies. Summaries of the discussions in each group.
Fifty-eight percent of younger Americans approve of President Barack Obama's job performance but many feel differently about his handling of specific issues, a national poll has found.
President Barack Obama may have sought to sell his revamped Afghanistan war strategy to a skeptical US public, but a poll showed Thursday that he faces a tough task amid a growing isolationist surge.
The head of the Secret Service asserted Thursday that the security breach at last week's White House state dinner was an aberration but has put three uniformed officers on leave. President Barack Obama says his confidence in the agency remains unshaken.
President Barack Obama said he'd send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. But the actual number could be higher.
Maryland and Virginia's governors told President Barack Obama $365 million a year in federal aid is needed to successfully implement the Chesapeake Bay restoration strategy he ordered earlier this year.
The US Senate on Thursday cast its first votes on legislation to enact President Barack Obama's top domestic priority, overhauling US health care, four days into its bitter debate on the plan.
Obama vows to tackle jobs challenge head-on WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday urged corporate America to help tackle the nation's highest unemployment in 26 years but also hinted at federal tax credits and aid to states to ease jobless woes. "We cannot hang back and hope for...
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.
