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Obama has ‘deep disappointment’ over withdrawal of U.S. court of appeals nominee
President accepts with ‘deep disappointment’ Caitlin Halligan’s decision to withdraw as nominee for US court of appeals in DC One of the longest-running standoffs in the partisan battle between the White House and Congress came to an end on Friday when a lawyer caught in the middle finally bowed out.…
FCC Chairman Genachowski stepping down
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will be stepping down in the coming weeks, he announced Friday morning at a staff meeting. The Obama appointee has run the agency since 2009, and presided over the issuance of vital regulations pertaining to the wireless spectrum, national broadband infrastructure and network neutrality.…
Obama visits Bethlehem’s Nativity Church attributed to Jesus’ birth
US President Barack Obama on Friday visited Bethlehem’s Nativity Church built on the site where tradition says Jesus was born, at the end of a three-day trip to Israel and the West Bank. The visit took place later than expected because of an unexpected sandstorm which forced the president to…
Palestinians invoke MLK, civil rights struggle on Obama tour
Palestinians sour at Barack Obama’s perceived failure to honour their historical struggle have invoked the US civil rights movement and South Africa’s apartheid in a bid to win his sympathy. At a news conference earlier this week, Palestinian MP Mustafa Barghuti said it was clear that the US president would…
Obama jokes that Jerusalem heckler makes him feel at home
During a speech on Thursday in Jerusalem, President Barack Obama handled a heckler by saying that actually the incident had been planned in advance by his team so that he could feel at home. The president was speaking to an audience of university students when a heckler began to shout…
Watch live: Obama delivers speech to Israeli people
On the second day of his first official trip to Israel, President Obama delivers a 45-minute speech to the Israeli people. Watch live, broadcast via NBC News on March 21. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Mass. sheriff apologizes for Obama assassination ‘satire’ after getting death threats
A Republican sheriff in Massachusetts says that he is now getting death threats after using “political satire” to joke that President Barack Obama should be assassinated. At a breakfast event over the weekend, Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonald had told about 100 Republicans that Abraham Lincoln had appeared to Obama…
Israel to pressure Obama on air strikes against Syria
Israel will use President Obama’s visit on Wednesday to try to persuade the US to carry out air strikes on Syrian missiles if there is evidence that they are being to handed over to Hezbollah in Lebanon, or at least to give full support to Israeli military action to stop…
Obama pitches clean-fuel car plan in Chicago but signals retreat on Keystone
President unveils $200m-a-year plan to fund research into clean fuels but advisers suggest Keystone pipeline will be approved Barack Obama’s grand vision of action on climate change shrank to $200m a year to fund research into clean fuel cars, with signs of retreat on the big environmental issues of the…
Bush-era state secrecy expert: Presidents abuse power like in Kafka or Orwell novels
William Leonard, who oversaw state secrecy under George W Bush, says successive US presidents have abused system Successive US presidents, including Barack Obama, have abused the system for handling classified information to expand their executive powers, the former senior official who oversaw state secrecy under George W Bush has claimed.…
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