Leukemia-Stricken Girl Gets 10 Minutes With Obama
NBC New York Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:12 AM PST
A 6-year-old Manhattan girl who has bravely been battling leukemia for the last year finally got her wish â€" a 10-minute meeting with President Barack Obama. |
Subsidy needs to be more than a notion for Obama, Congress
The Clarion-Ledger Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:12 AM PST
Here's a government gift that should keep on giving. Unless Congress and the president act soon, many unemployed workers and their dependents may lose their health insurance if a federal subsidy to help them pay for the coverage isn't extended. |
Party crashers refuse to testify
CNews Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:08 AM PST
WASHINGTON - White House party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi declined an invitation to testify to Congress about their caper at President Barack Obama's state dinner last week, prompting a quick threat from a lawmaker that they will be forced by subpoena to face questions if they don't show up Thursday. |
Congress appears poised to back Obama war plan
Nevada Appeal Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:07 AM PST
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama appears to have secured what President George W. Bush couldn't: bipartisan support for an unpopular and faltering war. Despite expressing an uneasiness about the details, lawmakers are poised to back Obama's plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan after getting assurances that some soldiers and Marines will begin withdrawing in July 2011. The ... |
McChrystal tells Afghans U.S. not leaving yet
Reuters.co.uk Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:07 AM PST
KABUL (Reuters) - The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan reassured top officials on Thursday that Washington was not planning an early exit, part of a charm offensive to sell President Barack Obama's new strategy on three continents. |
Analysis: Obama borrows Soviet's Afghan endgame
Nevada Appeal Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:07 AM PST
MOSCOW (AP) - The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan bears ominous similarities to the disastrous Soviet war there 20 years ago, when a modern army was humbled by small guerrilla bands and the invaders struggled to prop up an unpopular government in Kabul. But comparisons like these, often cited by critics of President Barack Obama's planned surge, have emphasized similarities while ignoring key ... |
Obama plan meets opposition on both sides of Congress
Sydney Morning Herald Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:05 AM PST
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama's plan for Afghanistan has been met by sharp questions from within his own party and from Republicans, as US congressional leaders prepare for a feisty debate about funding the extra 30,000 troops that the President wants. |
Obama’s war
New York Amsterdam News Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:04 AM PST
For a little more than a half hour at the Military Academy at West Point Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama put his stamp on the war in Afghanistan. |
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