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President Barack Obama's top aides promised on Wednesday "robust" negotiations toward a global climate change deal this month, but firmly stated the United States does not owe the world "reparations" for centuries of carbon pollution.
Franklin Roosevelt, confronted with the worst economic crisis in the nation's history, wrote the book on government jobs programs. Since FDR, presidents have been less ambitious because the economic challenges they faced were less severe.
Thanks to Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the canon of Hanukkah songs by Mormon senators from Utah just got bigger.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush publicly rejects the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to rein in greenhouse gases. 2005 - After Russia's ratification, the Kyoto Protocol takes effect for 37 industrialized nations.
WASHINGTON - Christmas at the White House isn't for sissies. Take quantities that might work in a private home — guests, cookies, parties, cards, whatever — and add some extra zeros to get a feel for a White House-sized holiday season.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Americans have grown gloomier about both the economy and the nation’s direction over the past three months even as the U.S. shows signs of moving from recession to recovery.
Christmas at the White House isn't for sissies. Take quantities that might work in a private home -- guests, cookies, parties, cards, whatever -- and add some extra zeros to get a feel for a White House-sized holiday season. As in 50,000 guests, 28 parties and open houses, a couple hundred thousand holiday cards and untold quantities of cookies, cakes, brownies, truffles and the like to feed the ...
Franklin Roosevelt, confronted with the worst economic crisis in the nation's history, wrote the book on government jobs programs. Since FDR, presidents have been less ambitious because the economic challenges they faced were less severe.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Christmas at the White House isn't for sissies. Take quantities that might work in a private home - guests, cookies, parties, cards, whatever - and add some extra zeros to get a feel for a White House-sized holiday season.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Americans have grown gloomier about both the economy and the nation’s direction over the past three months even as the U.S. shows signs of moving from recession to recovery.
Franklin Roosevelt, confronted with the worst economic crisis in the nation's history, wrote the book on government jobs programs. Since FDR, presidents have been less ambitious because the economic challenges they faced were less severe.
The general in charge of the war in Afghanistan said Tuesday there are "no silver bullets" for success there but that he expects to know by this time next year whether the troop build up is reversing the Taliban's momentum.
(AP:WASHINGTON) Franklin Roosevelt, confronted with the worst economic crisis in the nation's history, wrote the book on government jobs programs. Since FDR, presidents have been less ambitious because the economic challenges they faced were less severe.
WASHINGTON — Christmas at the White House isn’t for sissies. Take quantities that might work in a private home — guests, cookies, parties, cards, whatever — and add some extra zeros to get a feel for a White House-sized holiday season.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Americans have grown gloomier about both the economy and the nation’s direction over the past three months even as the U.S. shows signs of moving from recession to recovery.
A proposed $3.4 billion settlement would end a complicated and bitter class-action lawsuit that alleges sloppy bookkeeping by the federal government has robbed Native Americans of more than a century's worth of revenue from uses of their land.
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