Obama mulls a reduce troop plan
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is considering a scaled-down version of the war plan advanced by his top Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. officials say. Such a narrowed military mission would increase American forces to accom...
 5.7K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 249.0 War briefing might look at troop increases
WASHINGTON The latest in a series of top-level White House meetings about the war in Afghanistan could provide a venue for the first discussion of the troop request submitted by the U.S. commander there. The fourth of five sessions is scheduled thi...
5.3K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 249.0 Ideals over action?
WASHINGTON The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what? For one of America s youngest presidents, in office less than nine months and only for 12 days...
5.5K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 249.0 Obama wins peace prize
OSLO (AP) President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize today in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilater...
11.2K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 249.0 Obama weighs Pakistan s role in war
WASHINGTON Recognizing the U.S. can neither win in Afghanistan nor succeed more broadly against al-Qaida without Pakistan s cooperation, President Barack Obama s war council is weighing a new role for Pakistan in the eight-year-old struggle in the ...
4.6K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 249.0 Obama: U.S. determined to act on climate change
UNITED NATIONS President Barack Obama today declared that the United States is a serious partner in combating global warming, telling world peers we are determined to act. The journey is hard. And we don t have much time left to make it, Obama sa...
5.8K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 249.0 Obama will spell out health care proposals
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will tell the nation in a prime-time address precisely how he wants to expand health care, including what his spokesman says will be a fresh argument for the much-debated government-run insurance option. What we r...
7.1K - Sep. 9, 2009; scored 249.0 Obama to Putin: Cold War is over
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama said former Russian President Vladimir Putin and his hand-picked successor should expect an in-person reminder the Cold War is over when the U.S. leader makes his first trip to a Moscow summit. Days before he depar...
4.1K - Jul. 3, 2009; scored 1000.0 Obama calls for 2-state solution
WEIMAR, Germany (AP) President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp today after prodding the international community to redouble efforts toward separate Israeli and Palestinian states in hopes of resolving a conflict fueled by the ...
5.7K - Jun. 5, 2009; scored 249.0 Obama: CIA agents won't face charges
WASHINGTON - In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, CIA operatives were allowed to shackle, strip and waterboard terror suspects. Now, President Barack Obama has assured these operatives that they will not be prosecuted for their rough interrogat...
6.1K - Apr. 17, 2009; scored 1000.0 U.S. Cubans optimistic, wary of new rules
MIAMI - Delsa Bernardo was ready to pop rolls in the oven at Yiya's Gourmet Cuban Bakery when she heard the news: After years of separation, she could finally visit her 80-year-old aunt in Cuba, any time she wanted. Like many Cuban-Americans, Bernard...
5.2K - Apr. 14, 2009; scored 249.0 Obama campaigns for help in Afghanistan
STRASBOURG, France - Courting Europe with an American-style campaign, President Barack Obama on Friday talked up his plans - popular here - to eliminate nuclear weapons, close the Guantanamo Bay prison and tackle global warming. In return, he's hopin...
6.7K - Apr. 4, 2009; scored 1000.0 Troops to leave Iraq in 18 months
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is expected to order all U.S. combat troops to leave Iraq by August of next year, administration officials said, closing the door on a war that has led to the deaths of at least 4,250 members of the U.S. military....
5.1K - Feb. 25, 2009; scored 249.0 Obama eyes bailout regulations
WASHINGTON The Obama administration is tackling the bailout of the battered financial sector on two tracks: overhauling how the government spends the money while devising new executive compensation restrictions for banks that get it. Administration...
3.9K - Feb. 3, 2009; scored 249.0 Obama lifts Bush abortion gag rule
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush administration s ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information an inflammatory policy that has bounced in and out of law...
7.3K - Jan. 24, 2009; scored 249.0 Obama administration outlines new foreign policy agenda
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama put his stamp on U.S. national security and foreign policy today, moving quickly to repudiate programs of his predecessor. The man he tapped to oversee the intelligence community promised Congress he would not allo...
4.7K - Jan. 22, 2009; scored 249.0 Obama hits the ground running
WASHINGTON On his first full day in the White House, Barack Obama stepped into the Oval Office for the first time as president and summoned economic advisers and top military officials to meetings aimed at making early progress on the change he pro...
4.9K - Jan. 21, 2009; scored 1000.0 War, economy, open house to fill Obama's first day
WASHINGTON (AP) Although he may not get to bed before 3 a.m., Barack Obama plans to make his first full day as president a jam-packed affair of prayer, diplomacy, war discussions and welcoming hundreds of visitors to the White House. Obama has deli...
3.7K - Jan. 18, 2009; scored 249.0 Laura Bush seals book deal worth millions
WASHINGTON First lady Laura Bush has sealed a deal worth millions with Scribner to publish a memoir that will encompass her recollections of personal and historical moments, including her eight years in the White House. The publishing house, in ann...
3.8K - Jan. 5, 2009; scored 249.0 Duck! Bush shows skills with Iraqi reporters
KABUL, Afghanistan President George W. Bush wrapped up a whirlwind trip to two war zones today that in many ways was a victory lap without a clear victory. A signature event occurred when an Iraqi reporter hurled two shoes at Bush, an incident the ...
5.3K - Dec. 15, 2008; scored 249.0 | 
