Obama faces uphill battle
The Daily Commercial Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:13 AM PST
The Great Depression ended when the United States went to war and put all available citizens to work. When the war ended in 1945, factories retoole ... |
GOP threatens read-a-thon to slow health care bill
Park Hills Daily Journal Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:13 AM PST
WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Republicans accused Democrats of bad manners, bad timing and bad health care policy on Friday, then summoned images of fire and ice for good measure as they campaigned to block passage of sweeping legislation President Barack Obama’s allies want passed by Christmas. |
Analysis: Obama the pragmatist gets what he can
Park Hills Daily Journal Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:12 AM PST
COPENHAGEN (AP) â€" The world is coming to know President Barack Obama, the pragmatist whose stand at a messy global warming summit underscored the way he leads: Let’s get done what we can, imperfect as it is. |
Obama probes security failings
The Age Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:09 AM PST
US President Barack Obama was to receive a report last night detailing how government agencies failed to act on information about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab before he allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day. |
Record US aid goes on armaments
The Age Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:09 AM PST
Just before Christmas, US President Barack Obama signed into law one of his country's biggest aid pledges of the year. It was bound not for Africa or any of the many struggling countries on the World Bank's list. |
Obama Charts Subtler Course On Homeland Security
NPR Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:08 AM PST
Before the failed Christmas Day airliner attack, President Obama hadn't spent much time talking about homeland security. That's quickly changing, but his reserved approach is based on a philosophy of managing risk and an aversion to what he has called the scare tactics of his predecessor. |
December 31, 2009
Idaho State Journal Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:07 AM PST
The phrase "shovel ready," incessantly invoked by the Obama administration this year as a way to sell its $787 billion federal stimulus bill, died Thursday. |
Increased US military involvement in Yemen could boomerang
Deutsche Welle Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:02 AM PST
The Obama administration has in recent months stepped up its intelligence support and funding of Yemeni security forces in a bid to counter threats by al Qaeda to attack Western and Arab targets in the Gulf. |
Kohl to keep pushing Butler as U.S. judge after nomination turned back
La Crosse Tribune Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:55 AM PST
MADISON - Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl said Wednesday hesupports President Obama's nomination of Louis Butler as a federaljudge in Western Wisconsin despite the nomination being turned backin the U.S. Senate on Christmas Eve. |
Terrorism Report Due to Obama Today
KOLR - KSFX Ozarks Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:53 AM PST
(Washington, DC) -- President Obama today will get that first government review he ordered after the Christmas Day bombing attempt. He wants to know how 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab got dangerous explosives past airport security. |
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