Articles tagged with: “White House”
Beer with Obama
“Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington.”– Barack ObamaLast summer, we here in the news-o-tainment capital of the world, were distracted with the ...
Obama: repeal health insurers antitrust exemption
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama urged Congress on Tuesday to strip health insurers of their decades-old exemption from federal antitrust laws—hardening his stand against the ...
Polls: In Key States, Public Option Far More Popular Than Senate Plan
Okay, this should really give a boost to those arguing that Dems should pass the public option via reconciliation — for the specific reason that ...
US, Russia near 'finish line' on nuclear disarm deal
The United States and Russia are within sight of a new deal to slash their nuclear arsenals but certain "principles and elements" have yet to ...
Lindsey Graham: White House mulling indefinite detention
The White House is considering endorsing a law that would allow the indefinite detention of some alleged terrorists without trial as part of efforts to ...
9 Minnesotans Arrested at White House Protest
9 people from Minnesota were arrested Wednesday after laying down on the sidewalk in front of the White House in a protest the group called ...
White House: Limbaugh's Haiti comments 'really stupid'; radio host urged people not to donate
WASHINGTON - The White House is firing back at Rush Limbaugh after the conservative talk radio host urged people not to donate to relief efforts ...
Activists protest in DC over Guantanamo prison
WASHINGTON — Dozens of human rights activists marked the eighth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay prison for detainees by protesting by the ...
Obama's nuclear-free vision mired in debate
Reporting from Washington - President Obama's ambitious plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run up against powerful resistance from officials in the Pentagon ...
Guantanamo prison may have to stay open until 2011
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's commitment to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by next month may be delayed until 2011 because ...
Senate, White House Health Reform Tucks in Gun Rights
Could we make this stuff up? We cannot get healthcare as a basic human right for one another. But we sure can make sure gun ...
Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen Terrorists
On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda sites in Yemen, administration officials told ABC ...
US says bin Laden sometimes slips into Afghanistan
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden may periodically slip back into Afghanistan from his remote hideout in neighboring Pakistan, a senior White House official says, adding ...
President Obama told me to stop ‘demeaning’ him, says Rep. Conyers
President Barack Obama recently called Rep. John Conyers Jr. to express his frustrations with the Judiciary Committee chairman’s criticism.In an interview with The Hill, Conyers ...
Karl Rove's Visit To UWM Incites Protest
MILWAUKEE -- Former White House adviser Karl Rove’s visit to UWM on Thursday triggers a protest.Rove was the mastermind behind both of George W. Bush’s ...
White House OKs expanding CIA drone program in Pakistan
Washington (CNN) -- The White House has authorized an expansion of the CIA's program to attack suspected al Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan along ...
Obama: 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan by summer
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he was dispatching 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, accelerating a risky and expensive war buildup, even as he ...
Gibbs: Deployment to Afghan will be accelerated
WASHINGTON — A White House spokesman says President Barack Obama is ready to lay out an end-game scenario for U.S. involvement in Afghanistan because "we ...
House Democrats from the Bay Area line up against Obama's expected troop surge in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama prepares to announce his long-awaited decision on Afghanistan, many war-weary Democrats in Congress are holding their tongues, uneasy about ...
President vs. party on troop increase
President Obama will reveal his new Afghanistan war strategy in a speech Tuesday evening to cadets at West Point, but his most skeptical audience is ...
President to meet with lawmakers before war announcement
President Barack Obama will meet with House and Senate leaders from both parties next week before he announces his Afghanistan policy.Multiple Congressional leadership aides have ...
Obama to announce Afghanistan troop strategy Tuesday
Washington (CNN) -- President Obama will announce the U.S. troop strategy for Afghanistan in a speech at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday at the U.S. Military ...
Obama holds Afghanistan meeting tonight
President Obama will be working late tonight: The White House just announced a national security meeting on Afghanistan, starting at 8 p.m.It will be the ...
Where have all the protests gone? US students in limbo
WASHINGTON — When student Hemnecher Amen joined a protest outside the White House recently, it was the latest visible opposition here to US wars in ...
Official: Obama won't take any current war options
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for ...
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