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Romney to 11-year-old: Iran will get nuke if Obama re-elected
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday warned an 11-year-old boy that the world would be one step closer to nuclear war if President Barack Obama was allowed another term in office. “If Barack Obama gets re-elected, Iran will have a nuclear weapon and the world will change if that’s…
Obama announces top award for Israel’s Peres
President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he was bestowing America’s highest civilian award, the presidential medal of freedom, upon Israeli President Shimon Peres, for his “moral example.” “Shimon once described the story of the Jewish people by saying it proved that, ‘slings, arrows and gas chambers can annihilate man, but…
Obama to AIPAC: ‘Loose talk of war’ inflating gas prices
President Barack Obama on Sunday told a pro-Israel lobbying group that “loose talk of war” was only serving to benefit Iran because it was driving up the price of oil. In his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the president warned of the “cost and consequences of…
Gingrich: ‘Baloney’ that Obama’s Quran burning apology saved lives
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Sunday blasted President Barack Obama for apologizing after U.S. troops allegedly burned Muslim holy books in Afghanistan. The president told ABC News last week that the apology was necessary to “save lives” because protests over the Quran burnings have caused multiple deaths, including at…
Toddler survives twister that killed her family
A two-year-old girl survived a terrifying tornado that killed her parents and siblings at the weekend, US media reported, noting that she was in critical condition in hospital. The unidentified toddler was found lying among the bodies of her family in a field near a flattened home in New Pekin,…
Obama calls for new energy technologies
President Barack Obama called on Saturday for the development of new technologies to help tackle America’s energy problems and the scrapping of a $4-billion-dollar tax break for oil companies. “We’ve got to develop new technology that will help us use new forms of energy,” Obama said in his radio and…
Fluke: Obama told me my parents should be proud
Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke on Friday choked up as she recalled an encouraging phone call from President Barack Obama after conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh smeared her as a “slut.” “You were in our green room getting ready to come on and the White House tells us that…
Obama, Netanyahu set to confront divisions over Iran
WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Just days before what could be the most consequential meeting of U.S. and Israeli leaders in years, aides to President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are scrambling to bridge stark differences over what Washington fears could be an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites. Further…
Feminists warn pols not to erode women’s gains
Feminists in the United States, “fed up” with election-year attempts to erode their hard-won gains, issued a sharp reminder that women make up a voting bloc that cannot be ignored. HERvotes, a coalition of 51 women’s groups, vowed to ensure that several decades of progress in health care, education and…
Heckler interrupts Obama: ‘No war with Iran!’
While speaking at a fundraising event on Thursday, President Barack Obama was briefly interrupted by a supporter who urged him not to go to war with Iran. “We promoted human rights,” Obama said. “We made it clear that America is a Pacific power. We demonstrated that if countries like Burma…
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