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Steven Thomma
Obama wins praise for orchestrating response to Iran
The revelation Friday that Iran has been building a secret nuclear facility capped a calculated effort by President Obama to assemble a unified international response to Iran's nuclear program ahead of a six-nation meeting next Thursday in Switzerland. | 09/25/09 18:38:00 By - Steven Thomma
Sebelius: Swine flu vaccine will be available in October
The first doses of vaccine for the H1N1 flu virus will be available the first week of October, federal officials said Thursday, with millions more shipped every week after that. | 09/24/09 16:32:00 By - Steven Thomma
More U.S. troops to Afghanistan? Obama's caught in a vise
With the military and Republicans publicly pressuring him to send more troops to Afghanistan soon and his own administration now deeply divided about how to proceed there, President Obama may be facing a defining moment of his presidency. He can escalate an unpopular and open-ended war and risk a backlash from his liberal base or refuse his commanders and risk being blamed for a military loss that could tar him and his party as weak on national security. | 09/21/09 19:37:00 By - Steven Thomma, Jonathan S. Landay and David Lightman
Obama unveils new ways to boost retirement savings
Obama announced the plans in his Saturday radio address. The new options will make it easier for more businesses to automatically enroll their employees in 401(k) accounts, allow people to invest tax refunds in savings bonds, and allow employees to direct payments for unused vacation to their 401(k) accounts. | 09/05/09 06:00:00 By - Steven Thomma
Biden: Many stimulus projects happening ahead of schedule
Vice President Joe Biden claimed Thursday that the $787 billion stimulus plan "is doing more, faster, more efficiently, and more effectively than we had hoped." | 09/03/09 06:00:00 By - Steven Thomma
Obama summons Congress for primetime health-care pitch
Eager to turn the page after a politically damaging month, President Barack Obama will launch a new push next week to overhaul health care, highlighted by an evening address next Wednesday to a joint session of Congress. | 09/02/09 18:35:00 By - Steven Thomma and David Lightman
Summer of our discontent: Why is America so angry?
Finger pointing and yelling at town hall meetings this summer are just some of the signs of a country that's been building toward a boiling point for several years. Threats and inappropriate messages to federal judges and court personnel doubled from 2002 to 2008. The number of people refusing to pay taxes to a government they claim is illegitimate rose so much in recent years that the Internal revenue Service last year created a National Tax Defier Initiative to fight them. And the mood predates Obama. | 08/28/09 16:31:00 By - Steven Thomma
Secret camps and guillotines? Groups make birthers look sane
Is the federal government building secret camps to lock up people who criticize President Barack Obama? Will it truck off young people to camps to brainwash them into liking Obama's agenda? Are government officials planning to replicate the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, using the guillotine to silence their domestic enemies? No. The charges, of course, are not true. | 08/28/09 15:16:00 By - Steven Thomma
Fighting false health care claims, Obama repeats one of his own
President Barack Obama participated in a scripted online discussion of his health care overhaul with a friendly audience of religious voters and pastors Wednesday. It ended with him bemoaning those who bear "false witness" against his plans — and then making a claim of his own that's been widely shown to be false. | 08/19/09 18:49:00 By - Steven Thomma
At White House, Mubarak urges speeding up Mideast peace talks
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak used a newfound welcome mat Tuesday at the White House to urge the United States to accelerate Mideast peace talks, skipping past temporary steps that he said have led nowhere and moving instead to a final negotiation about the status of Jerusalem, the status of refugees and borders. | 08/18/09 17:49:00 By - Steven Thomma
Obama's hint that he'd drop public plan provokes ire
Concerned that the president might be ready to negotiate away one of their key goals, liberal Democrats pressed President Barack Obama on Monday to resist conservative opposition and maintain support for a government insurance option as part of his health care overhaul. | 08/17/09 18:52:00 By - Steven Thomma
Here's the truth: 'Birther' claims are just plain nuts
The false allegation that President Barack Obama was born in another country is more than a fact-free hit job. It's the story of a small but vocal sliver of the populace that believes the new president is a fraud, and — aided by the Internet, talk radio and cable TV — angrily dismisses anyone who disagrees as part of a conspiracy. Its primary proponents have a long record of backing other discredited theories, including that the Bush administration had a hand in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. | 07/30/09 19:19:00 By - Steven Thomma
Poll: Dissatisfaction growing with Obama, Democrats
According to a bipartisan poll released Wednesday, President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party may be putting themselves in political jeopardy with their expensive and ambitious agenda, which has yet to show benefits for the country. Overall, Obama and the Democrats still have popular support. But majorities in the poll think the administration is spending and doing too much. | 07/29/09 17:40:00 By - Steven Thomma
Palin's more popular than Pelosi (but only one is in office)
A new poll conducted for George Washington University found that 42 percent of likely voters have a favorable opinion of Palin versus 32 percent with a favorable opinion of Pelosi. Obama still topped them both, with a 61 percent favorable rating. | 07/29/09 17:43:22 By - Steven Thomma
Obama regrets arrest comments, phones both officer, Gates
President Barack Obama admitted Friday that he hadn't helped calm a racially charged debate by saying that police acted "stupidly" for arresting a prominent African-American professor in his own home. Obama talked both to the arresting officer, Sgt. James Crowley, and the professor, Henry Louis Gates. | 07/24/09 18:29:00 By - Steven Thomma and Margaret Talev
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