Archives for February, 2010
There was President Barack Obama, working a friendly crowd in Henderson, Nevada, not far from Las Vegas. And then a sympathetic comment from a French ...
By trying to soothe Las Vegas’ hurt feelings about some remarks he made recently, President Barack Obama outed his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, as a big ...
It’s not quite the glee club or football championship. U.S. high schools will flex their competitive muscles this spring for a different sort of prize — President ...
Newly minted Republican deficit commissioner Alan Simpson has a message for Americans: if you don’t want your grandkids picking grit with the chickens, better ignore ...
The Dalai Lama, fresh from his controversial meeting with President Barack Obama, greeted the U.S. press corps during a blustery press conference on Thursday outside ...
World peace came first. But then the Dalai Lama told reporters he brought up to President Barack Obama during their White House meeting the issue ...
After rocking the house for decades, could Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Mellencamp rock the U.S. Senate? Some Democrats think so and they’re trying to ...
President Barack Obama and a group of brainiac young students played stump-the-astronaut with the current occupants of the orbiting space station. This was an event beamed ...
President Barack Obama apparently believes he’s found the right formula for chiding Republicans who opposed the $787 billion economic stimulus — because he used it ...
By the look of things, the American public just might vote Congress out of office this November – Republican and Democrat alike. But Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will pitch his bid to revamp the U.S. healthcare system as a way to control big insurance company rate ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A last-ditch attempt at passing a climate change bill begins in the Senate this week with senators mindful that time is running ...
ASMARA (Reuters) - The United States accused Eritrea on Monday of working to destabilize the Horn of Africa region and urged President Isaias Afwerki to ...
TOKYO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A document claiming Toyota Motor Corp saved over $100 million by getting U.S. regulators to agree a cheap fix for unintended acceleration ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's fighter jets would fall short in combat against military rival China, the U.S. government said in a report on Monday that ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five former Treasury secretaries urged Congress on Sunday to bar banks that receive federal support from engaging in speculative activity unrelated to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many teachers and educators across the United States are at risk of losing their jobs in the next few months, the nation's ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State governors want Congress and President Barack Obama to pay more attention to their concerns as they renew efforts to reform healthcare. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A year after President Barack Obama proposed a plan to clean up the Great Lakes, the government Sunday laid out its plan ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is strongly considering naming the chief executive of Honeywell International, a union president and a former vice chairwoman of ...
Sarah Palin’s right. It would be absurd for her not to consider a White House bid in 2012, especially while Tea Partiers are chanting, “Run, ...
The Obama family hails from Chicago, where heavy snowfalls are not uncommon. But that’s not the case in Washington, D.C., which was largely shut down ...
President Barack Obama, who famously chided Washington for not being “flinty” enough in dealing with snow compared with his hometown Chicago, isn’t scoffing any more ...
While Washington deals with freezing temperatures this Sunday, Super Bowl XLIV will kick off in sunny Miami Gardens, Florida, as the New Orleans Saints take ...
The unemployment rate fell in January to 9.7 percent, the lowest in five months and below that dreaded 10 percent in December. It also foiled ...
