AP - President Barack Obama’s intense juggling of domestic issues reflects all the realities he faces: a vast agenda, a smaller window for results this year and a need to keep promises to constituencies that will have a huge say in the fall congressional elections.[Read more...]
AP - President Barack Obama’s health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars that some abortion opponents fear.[Read more...]
Iraqis hope the election will lead to reduced violence Iraq’s second parliamentary election since the 2003 invasion has been hit by multiple attacks, with at least 35 people being killed.Two buildings were destroyed in Baghdad and dozens of mortars were fired across the [...]
AP - President Barack Obama is trying to persuade a weary public and wavering Democrats to get behind his frantic, late-stage push on health care, while Republicans dig in and demand starting from scratch after a year’s worth of work.[Read more...]
AP - On the other side of the obstacle course that President Barack Obama must clear to get his health care overhaul, a final trapdoor is lurking: the divisive politics of abortion.[Read more...]
Armenian-Americans have lobbied for official use of the word “genocide” Turkey has reacted angrily to a US congressional panel’s resolution describing as genocide killings of Armenians in World War I.PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country had been accused of a crime it [...]
President Barack Obama opened the final act of a year-long drama over health-care legislation Wednesday, calling on Democrats in Congress to approve the sweeping bill despite political risks and Republican opposition. The president vowed to rally Americans and wavering lawmakers alike. White House aides said a pair of trips next week will be followed [...]
AP - Democratic congressional leaders hope President Barack Obama’s unveiling of his final health care package Wednesday will help resuscitate an effort that seemed all but dead until recently.[Read more...]
WASHINGTON—The White House said Monday the leading tactic to win passage of the health-care bill was nothing extraordinary, rehearsing a key argument in the final public-relations battle over the bill. For their part, Republicans accuse the Democratic majority of trying to ram through legislation using a parliamentary trick that Republicans say was never [...]
AP - President Barack Obama hasn’t kicked the smoking habit, takes anti-inflammatory medication to relieve chronic tendinitis in his left knee and should eat better to lower his cholesterol, his team of doctors concluded Sunday after the 48-year-old’s first medical checkup as commander in chief.[Read more...]
Dems look to health vote without abortion foes
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Pakistan tests missiles in Arabian Sea
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Aftershocks Jolt Chile Inauguration
UN critical of Israel over Gaza blockade
BNP teachers will not be banned
Early Iraq results: PM battling secular challenger
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More quakes hit Chile as new president takes over
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Strong Aftershocks Rattle Chile
Pinera sworn in as new quake hits
Pelosi says Dems near deal on health care bill
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Law bars Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi from elections
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Contractors ‘divert Somalia aid’
Apology for women raped by father
Gates: Some troops could leave Afghanistan early
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Iran attacks US over AfghanistanObama pushing on health care end game
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Inmate reoffending ‘costs £10bn’
Biden condemns new Israeli settlement plan
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US attacks East Jerusalem plans