Analysis: Caution mutes US response to NKorea
Associated Press via Yahoo! News Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:11 AM PST
The Obama administration's cautious response to the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il reflects unease and uncertainty about the leadership transition in the reclusive country that has confounded U.S. presidents since Harry S. Truman. |
Web gambling gets boost from Obama administration
Reuters via Yahoo! India News Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:10 AM PST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration cleared the way for U.S. states to legalize Internet poker and certain other online betting in a switch that may help them reap billions in tax revenue and spur web-based gambling. A Justice Department opinion dated September and made public on Friday reversed decades of previous policy that included civil and criminal charges against operators of ... |
Biden: Romney content with limited success stories
The News Journal Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:05 AM PST
TILTON, N.H. - In a likely preview of the general-election argument to come, Vice President Joe Biden and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney traded barbs today over whose economic policies are best for the country. Biden said Romney's would leave most people behind while the Republican said Biden and President Barack Obama live in "fantasyland" for thinking their policies are helping. |
Commentary: 'Dumb' Bush War In Iraq Ends
Free Internet Press Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:00 AM PST
Iraqis are now challenged to make their democracy work, or not. It's over. The “dumb war,†as described by Illinois State Senator Barack Obama and continued by Nobel peace laureate Obama, was ended by President Obama two weeks ahead of its scheduled termination on Dec. 31, 2011. |
Boehner Signs On to Payroll Tax Deal Amid Isolation, Attacks
BusinessWeek Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:42 AM PST
Deserted by many of his fellow Republicans, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner surrendered to attacks from President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats and agreed to a two-month extension of a payroll tax cut that he derided hours earlier. |
Obamas spending low-key Christmas Eve in Hawaii
Everett Herald Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:38 AM PST
HONOLULU -- President Barack Obama and his family are easing into vacation mode, spending a low-key Christmas Eve out of the spotlight. The president spent his first morning in Hawaii at a multimillion-dollar vacation home his family rents in the Kailua Beach area, near Honolulu. |
Obama, family attend Christmas church services
Everett Herald Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:38 AM PST
HONOLULU -- After spending a quiet Christmas morning with his family, President Barack Obama attended church services Sunday at a Marine base near his rented Hawaiian vacation home. |
Economists to President: Protecting public lands is good business
Kern Valley Sun Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:37 AM PST
Lori Abbott/Special to the Sun MILL VALLEY, Calif. - Investing in California's federally-protected public lands is good for business. That's what more than 100 economists and academics from across the nation, including 11 from California, are hoping to impress upon President Obama. They've sent a letter urging him to consider the importance of wilderness areas, national parks and monuments to ... |
The Note's Must-Reads for Monday, December 26, 2011
ABC News Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:37 AM PST
The Note’s Must-Reads are a round-up of today’s political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com Compiled by ABC News Digital News Associates Jayce Henderson and Amanda VanAllen PRESIDENT OBAMA: Politicos’ Glenn Thrush:... |
Changing voters' views of Obama and the economy
Los Angeles Times Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:37 AM PST
The president is reshaping his message to focus on what aides call his defense of the middle class. It's a strategy against GOP efforts to turn the election into a referendum on his economic record. With Republicans distracted by an increasingly divisive primary battle, President Obama and his aides have begun a high-stakes effort to change how voters look at the main issue in the 2012 election ... |
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