Miesiąc: październik 2009

Democratic strategists say while Harry Reid seeks to calm a liberal base on health care reform there is a different motivation at home in Nevada: a tough re-election battle.

Former vice president Dick Cheney told a special prosecutor in 2004 that he had no idea who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, according to newly released FBI documents.

The Obama administration invoked the state secrets privilege on Friday in a lawsuit pertaining to government eavesdropping intended to intercept terrorist communications, and one privacy advocacy group called the decision „incredibly disappointing.”

The White House on Friday began releasing the names of visitors as part of a Barack Obama campaign promise to run a more transparent administration.

The Pentagon will offer the H1N1 vaccination to detainees at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, officials there said Friday.

The Foreign Service Officer who resigned last month in protest over America’s war in Afghanistan said Friday he has received an outpouring of support from Afghan-Americans and U.S. active-duty military.

If President Obama decides to send the 40,000 additional forces to Afghanistan as requested by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a rough estimate by the Pentagon projects the cost could be an additional $20 billion a year, according to a senior Pentagon official.

President Obama announced Friday that he will lift a 22-year-old ban on entry into the United States for people infected with HIV/AIDS.

In politics, as in life, big things often come in small packages.

Margaret Chin is poised to be the first Chinese-American councilwoman to represent New York’s Chinatown, one of the largest concentrations of Chinese outside of mainland China.

The largest stimulus program in the nation’s history has created or saved about 640,000 jobs, the Obama administration said Friday.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday she is expressing to Pakistan her concerns about how much success the nation’s government is having in fighting terrorism.

Chris Daggett is a political novice yet has the routine down pat: Approach a morning commuter, extend his hand and a good-morning greeting, and pick a question from his repertoire.

A top Taliban political leader delivered a message Friday to President Obama, calling his attempt to lure away Taliban fighters with money „an old weapon that has failed already.”

The largest stimulus program in the nation’s history has created or saved at least 650,000 state and local jobs, according to a report released by the Obama administration on Friday.

President Obama will host the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the White House on Friday as he reassesses his administration’s military strategy in Afghanistan.