Barack Obama to visit Ground Zero
US President Barack Obama is to visit Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York, later on Thursday, four days after US forces killed al-Qaeda head Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Bin Laden was believed to be the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and many others. Mr Obama will lay a wreath in memory of the victims and speak to...
Barack Obama Says START Vote Top Priority
US President Barack Obama assured Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday that getting the Senate to ratify the START nuclear weapons treaty is a “top priority” of his administration. “I reiterated my commitment to getting the START treaty done during the lame-duck session,” Obama told reporters following talks with Medvedev...
Obama and the mid-terms
He may not feel it on the eve of what is likely to be a wretched mid-term election for his party, but Barack Obama is a lucky man. The new boy from Illinois who joined the Senate in 2005 cannot have expected to become president in less than four years. Though not lacking in self-belief, he thought his chance would come later. But within a...
Barack Obama appears on daytime talk show
Barack Obama appears on daytime talk show The View, where he reflected on challenges he has faced. The show, in which US president Obama was asked about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the economy, was filmed on Wednesday and will air on Thursday. It was the first appearance by a sitting US president on a daytime TV chat show. The View co-host...
Barack Obama: BP responsible for costs of oil spill
President Barack Obama on Sunday visited Louisiana to assess the Gulf oil spill, saying the government is focused on a “fully-coordinated, relentless response” to stop the oil leak at the bottom of the sea. Barack Obama says BP will foot the bill for $4.6bn of damages caused by the massive oil slick heading towards the wetlands...
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