Archive for September, 2009

APIA, Samoa (AP) — Police in green reflective vests searched a ghastly landscape of mud-strewn streets, pulverized homes and bodies scattered in a swamp Wednesday as dazed survivors emerged from the muck and mire of an earthquake and tsunami that…

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President Barack Obama holds a strategy review on Afghanistan in the Situation Room of the White House, Sept. 30, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Brazil’s president says he’s not worried about U.S. President Barack Obama’s pitch for Chicago to host the 2016 Olympics.

After all, it was his idea.

“I actually told Obama to come,” President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said upon his arrival in…

by Mark Silva Michelle Obama is on the ground. And President Barack Obama will land Friday morning. The first lady landed this morning in Copenhagen, where the International Olympic Committee will decide on Friday who gets the 2016 summer games……

WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House-backed overhaul of the nation’s health care system weathered repeated challenges from Republican critics over taxes, abortion and more on Wednesday, and the bill’s architect claimed enough votes to push it through the…

The mayor, the president and Oprah Winfrey may hope to return to Chicago from Copenhagen with the 2016 Olympic Games, but some around town hope the International Olympic Committee deems the Second City the second city.

As in second to Rio de Janeiro. Or…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has blocked an attempt to force an end to production of new C-17 cargo jets, rebuffing both President Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain.

The 64-34 vote on Wednesday blocked an attempt by McCain to shift $2….

Brazil’s president says he’s not worried that U.S. President Barack Obama is coming to Denmark to lobby that Chicago and not Rio de Janeiro should win the 2016 Olympics.

After arriving in Copenhagen, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he…