RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) – President Barack Obama began his latest bid to open a dialogue with the Muslim world by paying a call Wednesday on Saudi King Abdullah, guardian of Islam’s sacred sites in Mecca and Medina.
The monarch of Saudi Arabia greeted Obama at Riyadh’s main airport with a ceremony when the new U.S. [...]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is stepping up efforts to rebuild Americans’ confidence in the economy, addressing the nation’s financial ills head-on in meetings with worried business leaders and in remarks directly to the public.
Obama will have another opportunity to assert his optimism after he meets Friday with Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman [...]
By STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – With a global economic showdown deepening, President Barack Obama has challenged American allies to spend more to reignite their economies.
At home he was making the rounds to ensure that a massive economic stimulus plan is implemented in ways that it will ease the worst recession the U.S. has [...]
Andrew Miga, Associated Press Writer
In this Sunday Feb. 3, 2008 picture, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., presidential hopeful stands next to Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., during a rally at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn. Lieberman has changed his tune on Obama. After campaigning for Republican John McCain in 2008 and attacking Obama as naive, Lieberman [...]
Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer
In this March 4, 2009 file photo, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2010 federal budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. Some Democrats, worried over where Obama is headed, are suggesting he has yet to match his call for “bold action [...]
By PETER BAKER
WASHINGTON — As he introduced his new choice for secretary of health and human services in the East Room this week, President Obama turned his head from right to left, but he was not looking at the audience. He was reading from two teleprompters strategically set up outside the tight television camera shot.
When [...]
By STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama faced a new rash of bad economic news Monday as his Treasury Department prepared to hand out $30 billion more to bail out an international insurance and investment giant and Wall Street shed value even before it opened for trading.
The government said it would [...]
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to repeal a Bush administration rule that has become a flash point in the debate over a doctor’s right not to participate in abortions. The regulation, instituted in the last days of the Bush administration, strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refuse to [...]
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is expanding the membership and reach of his top national security team, in recognition of the increasing role energy, climate and economic issues now play in keeping America safe.
A soon-to-be-released presidential directive reflects an effort by the White House to be better prepared to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama will announce Friday that he plans to withdraw the bulk of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of August 2010, but wants to leave tens of thousands behind to advise Iraqi forces and protect U.S. interests, congressional officials said.
Obama, who campaigned on ending the unpopular Iraq war within [...]
