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Obama Assails G.O.P. for Blocking Benefits Bill
President Obama sharply criticized Republicans Monday as he called for an extension of unemployment benefits.
July 19, 2010
The Aide at the Center of Obama’s Inner Circle
Denis McDonough, the National Security Council’s chief of staff, is so close to the president that colleagues will often not make a major move without checking with him.
July 10, 2010
As Generals Change, Afghan Debate Narrows to 2 Powerful Voices
The departure of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal is likely to make the Obama administration’s internal debates over Afghanistan even more pointed.
June 25, 2010
Obama Fires McChrystal, Citing Need for Unity in Afghan War
President Obama removed Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as commander of American forces in Afghanistan and tapped as his replacement Gen. David H. Petraeus.
June 24, 2010Short, Tense Deliberation, Then a General Is Gone
WASHINGTON -- By the time he woke up Wednesday morning, President Obama had made up his mind. During the 36 frenetic hours since he had been handed an article from the coming issue of Rolling Stone ominously headlined ''The Runaway General,'' the president weighed the consequences of cashiering Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, whose contemptuous comments about senior officials had ignited a firestorm.
June 24, 2010General's Job Is in Doubt In Exposing Afghan Rifts
Gen Stanley A McChrystal, Pres Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, flies to Washington to meet with Pres Obama to discuss remarks he and members of his staff made about senior administration officials in article in Rolling Stone magazine; McChrystal and his aides spoke critically of nearly every member of Obama's national security team, laying bare disarray and enmity in foreign-policy team struggling with war; firestorm is fueled by increasing doubts, even in military, that Afghanistan can b...
June 23, 2010General's Job Is in Doubt In Exposing Afghan Rifts
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's top commander in Afghanistan flew to Washington on Tuesday to find out whether he would be fired for remarks he and members of his staff made that were contemptuous of senior administration officials, laying bare the disarray and enmity in a foreign-policy team that is struggling with the war.
June 23, 2010
A Return to Liberia, Experienced Through Food
A culinary tour through Monrovia incorporates the best of West African cooking with traditions from the American South.
June 20, 2010
Obama Hopes ‘Recovery Summer’ Will Warm Voters to the Stimulus
Stimulus-financed construction is finally getting under way, and the administration hopes that the jobs provided will offset concerns about too much spending.
June 19, 2010BP to Set Aside $20 Billion To Help Oil Spill Victims
BP will create $20 billion fund to pay damage claims to thousands of fishermen and others along Gulf Coast; Pres Obama announces fund, to be administered by lawyer and mediator Kenneth R Feinberg, after four days of intense negotiations between White House and BP lawyers; Obama acknowledges oil leak will likely continue for months to come but fund enables him to throw 'lifeline' to coastal residents; BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg says company also agrees not to pay further dividends to share...
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