WASHINGTON — President Obama told Congressional leaders on Tuesday that he would not substantially reduce American forces in Afghanistan or shift the mission to just hunting terrorists there, but he indicated that he remained undecided about the major troop buildup proposed by his commanding general. Meeting with leaders from both parties at the White House, Mr.
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Obama says the war in Afghanistan will continue
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Thanks to Barack Obama, Marc Anthony’s 41st birthday was one for the record books. After touring the Oval Office, J.Lo and Marc got glammed up for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus…
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Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony Hang With Obamas
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POLITICS BUZZ : Meet the Congressman who interrupted Obama's joint-session health care speech with some screaming (like you do). The exact quote was “You Liar.” Seriously, we're in high school or the Middle Ages or whatever
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Rep. Joe Wilson
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Despite a recession that knocked down global arms sales last year, the United States expanded its role as the world’s leading weapons supplier.
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The USA is number one…In gun sales!
A speedier withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan would shave $1.1 trillion off the budget in the next decade, a new congressional budget projection says. That would be a sizeable cut in defense-related spending from 2010 through 2019, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates at $7.4 trillion.
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Faster troop withdrawal may save $1 trillion
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In a move that is sure to raise the hackles of his party’s liberal base, President Barack Obama will not insist that Congressional legislation to reform healthcare include the so-called public option to compete with private health insurers, according to a report Wednesday. Buried in a Politico report Wednesday was the fact that Obama officials have allegedly decided not to insist on a public option in a planned speech the President is set to deliver on healthcare.
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BOSTON — During the funeral of Edward M. Kennedy on Saturday morning, the longtime senator was remembered as a “happy warrior” by President Obama, a figure of outsized public impact and of enduring private faith in a Mass that seemed as large as the life of the man being commemorated
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“The nation’s largest group of atheists and agnostics filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block an architect from engraving “In God We Trust” and the Pledge of Allegiance at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington. The Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation’s lawsuit, filed in U.S.
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Lawsuit seeks to block ‘In God We Trust’ engraving
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Sonia Sotomayor is facing scrutiny over her possible appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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