Obama Administration: Obamacare’s Individual Mandate ‘is a Tax’
IRS building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C.. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There’s been a huge dust-up in the media this week as to whether or ...
Obama calls Korean DMZ: ‘Freedom’s frontier’
U.S. President Barack Obama looks through binoculars on Sunday to see North Korea from Observation Post Ouellette in the Demilitarized Zone, the tense military border between the two Koreas. By ...
Poll: Health overhaul unpopular, but less feared
WASHINGTON — A new poll finds Americans are still cool to President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law. But as the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on the constitutionality ...
UN official witnesses devastation in Homs; Syria oil minister defects
Relief workers have resumed distributing aid, but stopping the slaughter is something President Barack Obama states the U.S. will not do alone. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports. By NBC News and ...
U.S.: Obama Requests Slightly Higher Aid Levels for 2013
WASHINGTON, Feb 14, 2012 (IPS) – Despite strong pressure to reduce the yawning federal deficit, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is asking Congress for a slight increase in ...
Syria to let monitors stay; Obama ups pressure
Damascus opposes broadening the scope of the Arab League observer mission, the source at the League said, but would accept a one-month extension of its mandate which expires on Thursday. ...
Obama meets with Chinese premier amid disputes
BALI, Indonesia — President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao conferred Saturday in a surprise meeting on the sidelines of a major Asian summit, likely focusing on the economic ...
Obama: US to boost Asia-Pacific military presence
CANBERRA, Australia — Signaling a determination to counter a rising China, President Barack Obama vowed Thursday to expand U.S. influence in the Asia-Pacific region and “project power and deter threats ...
Obama vows new bid to thwart Iran nuclear effort
KAPOLEI, Hawaii — President Barack Obama states sanctions on Iran are having “enormous bite,” but he still wants to work with Russia and China to find more ways of putting ...
Obama seeks Russia, China help on Iran
HONOLULU — Searching for help, President Barack Obama lobbied the skeptical leaders of Russia and China on Saturday for support in keeping Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed menace to the ...
