Seven days of debate that stretchedthrough the weekend have left Senate Democrats no closer topassing legislation to overhaul the U.S. health-care system.
President Barack Obama met with Senate Democrats yesterdayfor what he called a pep talk. New Jersey DemocraticSenator Frank Lautenberg said Obamas message can be bestsummarized as straighten up your spine.
Both candidates in Romanias presidential run-off vote claimed victory on Sunday, although most exit polls put Social-Democrat Mircea Geoana ahead of incumbent Traian Basescu.
“Our victory, my victory is a victory for all Romanians who want a better life,” Geoana said in a speech to supporters just after polling stations closed.
The two female winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine on Sunday urged scientific institutions to change their career structures to help more women reach top positions.
“The career structure is very much a career structure that has worked for men,” Blackburn told The Associated Press at the sidelines of a press conference in Stockholm.
The Obama administration plans to cut its estimate of the projected costs of the government bailout program by more than $200 billion, a Treasury official said Sunday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the administration’s new projection has not been presented to Congress, said the reduced cost estimate reflected faster repayments by big [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama is looking for help in Afghanistan from Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan even as tensions simmer between the NATO allies on Iran and the Middle East.
Turkey took over the rotating command of the NATO peacekeeping operation in Kabul last month and doubled its number of troops to around 1,750.
For House Republicans, this could be just what the doctor ordered.
Doctors “are always concerned because theyre in the cross hairs of Washington all the time,” said Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), an orthopedic surgeon. “I think theyre more inclined to participate this time given the incredible importance of whats happening.
As a senator, President Obama was introduced to the collegial ways of the institution, where friends can be like brothers and sisters, and even political enemies will sit down privately to hash out differences.
Obama has developed his own specialized lobbying technique, meeting regularly in one-on-one sessions with senators to go through an issue and try [...]
President Barack Obama’s special envoy conferred with South Korean officials Monday on the eve of a rare trip to North Korea aimed at bringing the communist country back to international nuclear disarmament talks.
On Monday, Bosworth met with South Korea’s chief nuclear envoy, Wi Sung-lac, to discuss the upcoming trip.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, goes before Congress this week, and with him comes this question: Who’s really in charge here, the generals or President Barack Obama?
“The president’s decision is already being softened and made mush of,” Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.
Luminaries from the worlds of music and film were feted by President Barack Obama and a black-tie audience of artists and political heavyweights on Sunday at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors.
At a White House reception attended by the political elite, including Vice President Joe Biden and former President John F.
