Obama's Presidency News

No Obama decision yet on Afghanistan: White House

Volunteers put together care packages for active duty US military personal serving in Iraq and Afghanistan during Microsoft's
AFP - Tuesday, November 10

The White House denied President Barack Obama had come to a decision on sending US reinforcements to Afghanistan, after media reports said he had made up his mind on a troop buildup. More »

  • An Israeli boy holds his national flag during a protest near a Jewish settlement, east of Jerusalem. President Barack Obama has hosted rare closed-door talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, underscoring tensions between the two close allies as US efforts to revive Middle East peace talks flounder.

    Obama, Netanyahu meet in shadow of Mideast crisis

    AFP - Tuesday, November 10

    President Barack Obama hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday for closed-door talks in a tense atmosphere that underscored tensions between the two allies as US efforts to revive Middle East peace talks flounder.

  • Obama to sign vet jobs order, meet with Netanyahu

    AP - Tuesday, November 10

    President Barack Obama plans to make the federal government the model employer of America's veterans.

  • Handout photo shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visiting the Natanz uranium enrichment facilities in the country. Iranians have revived an old counterproposal to US plans that calls for international arms inspectors to take custody of much of Irans fuel, but keep it on Kish, a Persian Gulf resort island that is part of Iran.

    Iran ignores US proposals on uranium: report

    AFP - Monday, November 9

    The administration of US President Barack Obama has told Iran it is willing to allow the country to send its stockpile of enriched uranium to any of several nations, including Turkey, for safekeeping, The New York Times reported Monday.

  • A medical assistant checks the blood pressure of a young woman who cannot afford health insurance at a health center in Hialeah, Florida. Democrats braced for the next battle in pushing the most sweeping US health care overhaul in a half-century through Congress, after handing President Barack Obama victory in a narrow House vote.

    Democrats gird for next step in health care fight

    AFP - Monday, November 9

    Democrats braced for the next battle in pushing the most sweeping US health care overhaul in a half-century through Congress, after handing President Barack Obama victory in a narrow House vote.

  • U.S. House approves sweeping healthcare overhaul

    Reuters - Sunday, November 8

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a sweeping healthcare overhaul on Saturday, backing the biggest health policy changes in four decades and handing President Barack Obama a crucial victory.

  • Protestors wave flags during a news conference

    Obama to push lawmakers on health care vote

    AFP - Sunday, November 8

    President Barack Obama, his top domestic priority in the balance, was to make a rare in-person plea Saturday for wary lawmakers to cast an historic vote for legislation to remake US health care.

  • An undated photo from www.cstsonline.org of Major Nidal Malik Hasan. A stunned nation battled to understand Friday why the Muslim army psychiatrist snapped, mowing down 13 people and wounding 30 others in a trail of bloodshed at a sprawling US military base.

    US grieves after Muslim doctor kills 13 on army base

    AFP - Saturday, November 7

    US President Barack Obama led his nation in mourning Friday as shocked Americans struggled to understand why a Muslim army doctor unleashed a massacre at a US military base, killing 13.

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