US tells Gaddafi to 'leave now'
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Sun, 27 Feb 2011 05:06 AM PST
US president Barack Obama says Libyan leader Moamar Gaddafi has lost his right to rule after attacking his own people. |
Net closes on Kadhafi as US demands he quit
AFP via Yahoo! Singapore News Sun, 27 Feb 2011 05:04 AM PST
The net closed on Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on Sunday as US President Barack Obama urged him to step down "now" amid growing fears that his teetering four-decade rule could descend into civil war. |
Proposed Cuts To Block Grants Spark 'Outrage, Panic'
NPR Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:58 AM PST
President Obama's budget proposal includes a roughly $300 million cut from the Community Development Block Grant program. Popular with state and local governments, the program funds everything from affordable housing to job creation programs. Local officials from both sides of the aisle say such cuts will only hurt cash-strapped cities and counties. |
Bird strikes at NAIA
Manila Bulletin Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:55 AM PST
MANNY Pacquiao flew in last Wednesday from Los Angeles with wife Jinkee, following an audience with President Obama at the White House last week. There were no photographs released of the meeting because Obama did not want to appear endorsing Pacquiao in his coming May fight with Shane Mosley, a fellow black American. Some of Pacquiao’s critics said the meeting did not take place at all ... |
Roy Exum: The New Gay Secretary
The Chattanoogan Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:45 AM PST
On Saturday President Obama was begging the nation's lawmakers to feverishly work toward a temporary budget before stop-gap spending limits could effectively close down the government when word came that, late on Friday, the President had chosen the first male in the history of the United States to become the new White House Social Secretary. |
Terror in Tripoli as Kadhafi told to quit
Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:45 AM PST
Residents of Tripoli cowered in their homes on Sunday as US President Barack Obama moved to avert a bloody battle for the Libyan capital by urging a defiant Moamer Kadhafi to step down "now." |
Key Obama adviser comes out of shadows
Philly.com Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:44 AM PST
WASHINGTON - It was all in a recent day's work for Valerie Jarrett. She reassured Jewish leaders about White House strategy on Egypt, helped Michelle Obama sync her spring agenda with her husband's, ushered a former Fed chairman into the Oval Office, soothed the Rev. Al Sharpton's concerns about education policy, and took a stroll with President Obama across Lafayette Park to patch things up ... |
John Boehner, House whisperer
Philly.com Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:43 AM PST
It was like watching a waterboarding. Seven times on a recent Sunday, Meet the Press host David Gregory pushed House Speaker John Boehner to repudiate the "birther" strain in the Republican Party, those who believe that President Obama was not born in the United States and thus is illegitimate. |
Patrick to meet Obama, give testimony
Boston Globe Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:35 AM PST
Governor Deval Patrick is continuing his whirlwind trip to Washington, including a White House reception and testimony before Congress. The Massachusetts Democrat is in the nation's capital as part of the National Governors Association's winter meeting. He and other governors will attend a White House reception today hosted by President Obama and is scheduled to appear on ABC's "This Week'' ... |
Ag research lab wonât get hit hard by proposed federal cuts
Sidney Herald Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:32 AM PST
Although President Obama’s proposed budget features a cut of $263 million for agriculture research, according to U.S. Sen. Max Baucus’ office, the decrease of funding isn’t expected to be felt too deeply in Sidney. |
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