Bright spots, dark clouds _ Obama seeks right tone
KING5 Seattle Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:14 AM PST
WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Bullish yet wary, President Barack Obama is highlighting recent economic bright spots while taking care not to overstate a recovery that still has not put millions back to work. |
Did GOP strategy doom pipeline?
North Platte Telegraph Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:14 AM PST
World-Herald News Service WASHINGTON - Start the clock. The Obama administration has 60 days to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline under legislation the president signed Friday - legislation that also extends the payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits and other provisions. |
Rail strike avoided with presidential help
North Platte Telegraph Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:09 AM PST
World-Herald News Service SCOTTSBLUFF - Railroad traffic could have come to a screeching early this morning as locomotive engineers were looking at a potential strike unless President Obama intervened and appointed a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB). |
Obama Signs Defense Spending Law, With Own Interpretations
BusinessWeek Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:47 AM PST
President Barack Obama, signing into law a $662 billion defense spending plan today, attached his own legal interpretation to several sections that the White House had contested with Congress, including a provision that requires suspected members of al-Qaeda be kept in military custody. |
Obama signs defense bill despite 'reservations'
Laramie Boomerang Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:22 AM PST
President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having "serious reservations" about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists. |
Iran tests missile as US tightens sanctions
AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:08 AM PST
Iran said Sunday it tested a new medium-range missile during war games near a vital Gulf oil transit channel, hours after US President Barack Obama signed a law tightening sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear programme. |
Romney, Paul hold shaky lead in kick-off Iowa test
The Jamaica Observer Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:07 AM PST
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) â€" Polls show former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Texas Representative Ron Paul leading the field of Republican presidential contenders in Iowa, but also suggest large numbers of Republicans could change their minds before Tuesday's caucuses kick off the state-by-state nominating contests to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama. |
EU sees January decision on wider Iran sanctions
Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:43 AM PST
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union expects to reach a decision by the end of January on expanding sanctions against Iran, an EU spokesman said on Sunday. U.S. President Barack Obama signed new sanctions against Tehran into law on Saturday, shortly after Iran signalled it was ready for fresh talks with the West on its nuclear programme and said it had delayed long-range missile tests in the ... |
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