JAKARTA, Indonesia – Authorities removed a statue of Barack Obama from a park in the Indonesian capital due to a public backlash and moved it Monday to a nearby elementary school that the U.S. president attended as a child.
The first couple is going rustic this Valentine’s Day, spending Sunday at Camp David before the president returns to Washington for a week full of jobs events and diplomatic meetings
Huffington Post – JAKARTA, Indonesia — A statue of a young President Barack Obama that drew a public backlash after it was given a prominent position in a Jakarta park will be moved to the elementary school he attended while living in the Indonesian capital, officials said Friday.
President Barack Obama’s visit to the University of Tampa felt more like a campaign rally than a town-hall meeting, thanks to an audience of more than 2,500 people. MIAMI HERALD – BY BETH REINHARD – breinhard@MiamiHerald.com TAMPA — Amid declining poll numbers and political fortunes, President Barack Obama on Thursday tried to reconnect with the [...]
President Barack Obama’s chief political adviser says the president will focus on job-creating plans in his State of the Union address Wednesday night.
Obama’s options, in a post-Massachusetts nation By Michael Gerson Friday, January 22, 2010 If Tuesday had been a national election, Scott Brown’s victory merely would have been the high-water mark of a Republican deluge. A five-point win in Massachusetts would have translated into blowout Republican victories throughout the country. Every Democrat with political skills short [...]
President Barack Obama proposed dramatic reforms to the nation’s largest banks on Thursday, seeking to limit both their size and the amount of risk they can take on.
Huffington Post – A Haitian woman is helped after being trapped in rubble on January 12, 2010 in Port-au-Prince following a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said. A tsunami alert was immediately issued for the Caribbean region [...]
Newsroom – President Barack Obama says one of the largest relief efforts in recent U.S. history is moving toward Haiti. The president pledged $100 million for the earthquake-stricken Caribbean country. President Obama says the first waves of U.S. rescue and relief workers are at work in Haiti. “Search and rescue teams are actively working to [...]
BBC News – US President Barack Obama has vowed “full support” to the people of Haiti to help recover from its devastating earthquake. The 7.0-magnitude quake, Haiti’s worst in two centuries, struck south of the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday. The extent of the devastation from a huge quake in Haiti is slowly emerging, with thousands [...]
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