Obama implores top bankers to increase lending
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama implored top bankers Monday to help keep the fragile recovery from faltering by boosting lending to small businesses and getting behind an overhaul of financial regulation. "We rise and fall together," he declared.
People:Bill Clinton Barack Obama George W. Bush Activities:Obama Admin. 2008 U.S. Financial Rescue
2009-12-14
Obama still standing after tough year
WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama's hopes of sparking rapid political transformation in 2009 fell short, yet his bruised administration still dreams of forging historic change in the year to come.
Nations:Afghanistan Denmark Russia People:Benjamin Netanyahu Barack Obama George W. Bush Activities:Obama Admin.
2009-12-13
US, Japan forge open skies agreement
The U.S. and Japan reached a landmark agreement Friday to relax limits on flights between the two countries, opening up the possibility of broader cross-border airline alliances and more options for air travelers.
Nations:Japan U.S. Australia Activities:Japan-U.S.
2009-12-11
Nobel-winning Obama defends war in call for peace
OSLO - Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his presidency, a fresh Obama doctrine. Evil must be vigorously opposed, he declared as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday. At the same time, he made an impassioned case for building a "just and lasting peace."
Nations:Afghanistan North Korea People:Michelle Obama Nelson Mandela Dalai Lama Barack Obama Jimmy Carter George W. Bush
2009-12-10
House passes $447 billion spending bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Thursday approved a $447 billion bill that boosts funding for a large part of the U.S. government and reflects priorities of Democrats who control Congress and the White House.
Nations:Afghanistan People:Barack Obama George W. Bush Activities:111th Congress Source:(Reuters)
2009-12-10
Pentagon orders 16,000 troops to start surge
WASHINGTON - The first wave of President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan surge will add about 16,000 U.S. troops who got their orders over the past few days, the Pentagon announced Monday.
Nations:Afghanistan U.S. People:Robert Gates Barack Obama Activities:Afghan Terror War Source:(AP)
2009-12-07
White House still lacks solid intel on bin Laden
WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.
Nations:Pakistan Afghanistan People:John Kerry Robert Gates Barack Obama John McCain George W. Bush Hillary Clinton Activities:Afghan Terror War
2009-12-06
Obama bemoans desperation of people out of work
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says a jobs forum he hosted at the White House generated many useful ideas for jump-starting job creation, some of which can be put into action "immediately" by his administration.
People:Barack Obama Nancy Pelosi Joseph Biden John McCain Ronald Reagan George W. Bush Activities:2008 U.S. Layoff Crisis Obama Admin.
2009-12-03
US and China to reduce emissions, but not enough
AMSTERDAM - Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming.
Nations:China India Denmark Canada Brazil Russia People:Stephen Harper Barack Obama George W. Bush Wen Jiabao Activities:China-U.S.
2009-11-27
White House: State dinner crashers met Obama
WASHINGTON - A reality TV hopeful and her husband who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list.
Nations:U.S. India People:Barack Obama Activities:2009 White House Party-crasher Obama Admin. Source:(AP)
2009-11-27
Analysis: Fed under fire as public anger mounts
WASHINGTON - Suddenly the Federal Reserve is everybody's punching bag.
People:Timothy Geithner Christopher Dodd Henry Paulson Ben Bernanke Barack Obama George W. Bush Activities:111th Congress 2008 U.S. Financial Rescue
2009-11-22
Obama, Hu vow cooperation but produce few deals
BEIJING - President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao promised a determined, joint effort to tackle climate change, nuclear disarmament and other global troubles yet emerged from their first full-blown summit Tuesday with scant progress beyond goodwill.
Nations:China North Korea Pakistan Denmark Afghanistan People:Dalai Lama Barack Obama George W. Bush Hu Jintao Activities:2009 Obama Asia Visit China-U.S.
2009-11-17
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