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Obama signs sanctions against Syria

Fri, 08/19/2011 - 20:21 by Swati Thakur

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order which imposes further sanctions against Syria's government.

The new order will freeze all the assets of the government of Syria in the United States.

Report: Obama economic team tired

Sat, 08/07/2010 - 22:14 by Prince damin

Washington -- The past 18 months have exhausted President Obama's economic team and that is the reason a key member is quitting, his spokesman says.

Christina Romer is the second member of the president's economic team to quit this summer and Romer, chairperson of the president's council for economic affairs, is exhausted, The Hill reported Saturday.

Romer is not quitting because of reported conflicts with Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council, said White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs.

Romer and the rest of the White House economic team have worked the equivalent of six years in the 18 months they've been in office, Gibbs told the newspaper.

US attends Hiroshima ceremony after 65 years, still no apology

Fri, 08/06/2010 - 22:39 by Deepika Garg

It has been 65 years since the United States crippled the Japanese city of Hiroshima with atomic attacks, and brought in an era of nuclear terror. For the first time since then, American representatives were sent to Japan to attend a ceremony to commemorate the atomic bombing of the city.

Jersey Shore’s Snooki arrested for unruly behavior

Sat, 07/31/2010 - 11:19 by Samia Sehgal

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi of the ‘Jersey Shore’ fame was caught by the cops for unruly conduct during shooting of the MTV reality show. Polizzi was arrested in Seaside Heights, N.J., at around 3:25 p.m. on Friday.

Lady Gaga reigns on Facebook, acquires 10 million fans

Sat, 07/03/2010 - 19:18 by Natalie James

Lady Gaga is the queen of Facebook! The wild-styled singer is now more liked than President Obama, celebrating 10 million fans on the social networking site, according to the British social-network statistics site FameCount.com.

Obama: Broadband projects to add jobs

Fri, 07/02/2010 - 23:45 by Pankaj Damin

Washington -- U.S. President Obama at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington announced funding for 66 projects to increase broadband Internet access across the country.

The president made the announcement in response, partly, to Friday's Labor Department report that said 83,000 private sector jobs had been added to the economy in June although 125,000 jobs were lost overall due to planned cessation of 225,000 temporary jobs with the U.S. Census Bureau.

"Make no mistake: We are headed in the right direction. But as I was reminded on a trip to Racine, Wis., earlier this week, we're not headed there fast enough for a lot of Americans."

"The recession dug us a hole of about 8 million jobs deep," he said.

President to chat with orbiting astronauts

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 12:26 by Rakhi Kaptiyal

Washington -- NASA says President Obama, congressional leaders and some U.S. middle school students will chat with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

The 5:15 p.m. EST Wednesday call will originate in the Roosevelt Room of the White House to congratulate the orbiting crews of the ISS and space shuttle Endeavour for their successful ongoing mission.

Joining the president will be students from Birney Middle School of Detroit, Elkhorn Middle School of Omaha, St. Thomas the Apostle of Miami and Davidson IB Middle School of Davidson, N.C. The students are in Washington as winners of an engineering competition that involved 34,000 seventh and eighth graders from across the nation.

Top defense officials in favor of lifting military gay ban

Wed, 02/03/2010 - 19:02 by Samia Sehgal

Washington, February 3 -- Homosexuals willing to openly join the military have found a huge supporter in Adm. Mike Mullen, the nation's top uniformed officer.

Obama's inaguration was threatened by terrorist attack, reveals NYT

Tue, 01/05/2010 - 16:47 by Camilla Abad

New York, January 5 -- Security officials scrambled to protect President Obama as reports of Somali terrorists attacking his inauguration ceremony arose few days before the event, the New York Times revealed.

Obamas leave Hawaii after 11-day vacation

Mon, 01/04/2010 - 17:32 by Ishita Sood

Washington, January 4 -- The first family returned to Washington Monday, after their 11-day long vacation in hometown, Hawaii.

Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks Delta flight, arrested

Sat, 12/26/2009 - 11:09 by Ishita Sood

New York, December 26 -- A Nigerian man said to be an agent for Al-Qaeda tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane, Flight 253, which was preparing to land in Detroit Friday.

Copenhagen summit draws mixed sentiments

Sat, 12/19/2009 - 15:15 by Ishita Sood

Copenhagen, Denmark, December 19 -- Five countries at the Copenhagen Summit reached a non-binding agreement for the climate deal, as others reacted angrily, saying that the deal was baseless and did not curb greenhouse gas emissions.