Obama lets rip on trip out of Washington
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) - President Barack Obama may look back on this week as the time when he dropped all pretense of political decorum and let all his frustrations with...
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Obama asks Congress for $3.7 billion for immigration crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House asked the U.S. Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency spending on Tuesday to address a cross-border surge of children from Central America that is...
Obama to nominate former P&G CEO Bob McDonald as veterans secretary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has chosen former Procter & Gamble Chief Executive Bob McDonald, an Army veteran, as his nominee to be the next secretary of veterans affairs,...
Obama to nominate former P&G CEO Bob McDonald as veterans secretary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has chosen former Procter & Gamble Chief Executive Bob McDonald, an Army veteran, as his nominee to be the next secretary of veterans affairs,...
White House review of Veterans Administration finds ‘corrosive culture’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A scathing review of the scandal-plagued U.S. Veterans Administration found significant and chronic failures across the board at the agency and that a corrosive culture prevails, the...
Obama rejects argument that Cantor loss means immigration overhaul is dead
By Steve Holland WESTON Mass. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama weighed in on the shock election defeat of Republican Eric Cantor on Wednesday, rejecting the argument that the ouster of...
Inside the White House’s decision to free Bergdahl
By Steve Holland and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For President Barack Obama, it seemed like the right thing to do, according to officials in his administration: Release five Taliban...
Obama to answer foreign policy critics in West Point speech
President Barack Obama will seek to counter unrelenting criticism of his foreign policy on Wednesday in a speech that may open the door to a slightly deeper U.S. involvement in...
Obama’s Afghanistan trip planned with ‘maximum discretion’
BAGRAM AIR BASE (Reuters) - It takes a combination of careful planning and cloak-and-dagger secrecy to transport the president of the United States halfway around the world into a danger...
Obama makes surprise visit to troops in Afghanistan
President Barack Obama traveled to Afghanistan on Sunday for a surprise Memorial Day weekend visit to meet with U.S. troops who are preparing to withdraw after nearly 13 years of...