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Obama renews offer to cut social safety nets in big budget deal - aide Sun, 03 Mar, 2013 01:12 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama raised anew the issue of cutting entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security as a way out of damaging budget cuts, a White House official said on Sunday, as both sides in Washington tried to limit a fiscal crisis that may soon hit millions of Americans. Related Stories China 2013 inflation may be around 3 percent - central bank Libya stops gas ... Rodman: N. Korea Leader Wants Obama to Call Sun, 03 Mar, 2013 01:09 PM PST Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (kim jawng oon) doesn't want war with the United States. He just wants President Barack Obama to call him. N Korea leader just wants Obama to call: Rodman Sun, 03 Mar, 2013 01:08 PM PST Kim Jong-un just want to talk basketball with Obama: Rodman Dennis Rodman: NKorea leader wants Obama to call Sun, 03 Mar, 2013 01:01 PM PST Call me? Maybe? Woodward’s and Wikipedia’s cozy and biased take on the Obama White House Sun, 03 Mar, 2013 12:59 PM PST If the White House will push Bob Woodward around on such a mundane matter as Obama’s role in a budget stand-off, what else will they do? A look at Wikipedia’s page on Obama’s communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis might give us some indication. Obama plans to extract timetable for Israeli pullout from West Bank Sun, 03 Mar, 2013 12:59 PM PST JERUSALEM â€" U.S. President Barack Obama has demanded a timetable for an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. Israeli sources said Obama, scheduled to arrive in Israel on March 20, wants a detailed Israeli withdrawal plan from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the president’s visit. US economy hamstrung by Washington's brinksmanship Sun, 03 Mar, 2013 12:57 PM PST Three budget crises ago, in early 2011, Republicans and President Barack Obama faced off over raising the debt ceiling - and Alison Brown saw the writing on the wall. Despite Sequestration, Majority Approve of Obama Sun, 03 Mar, 2013 12:56 PM PST The latest nationwide poll of likely voters by Zogby Analytics shows a majority (51%) approving of President Barack Obama's job performance. A substantial minority (46%) disapprove of his performance. The new Zogby Poll, conducted online of a random sample of 1500 likely voters on February 27, reveals that the President is holding on to the base of supporters that re-elected him last November. Ex-NBA star Rodman says North Korea's Kim wants Obama to call Sun, 03 Mar, 2013 12:54 PM PST Dennis Rodman, the former NBA star known more for his body piercings and tattoos than international diplomacy skills, said on Sunday he returned from North Korea with a message from its leader Kim Jong-un for President Barack Obama - "call me." Obama calls lawmakers over cuts; no resolution seen Sun, 03 Mar, 2013 12:54 PM PST Not a member? FORGOT PASSWORD? Enter your registered email below and we will send your password to this address. Not a member?

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