Obama to address Iran, Syria, Mideast in U.N. speech
NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will make clear on Tuesday that he wants to pursue a diplomatic path to resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program in a U.N. General Assembly speech that will also cover events in Syria and the Middle Ea…
Obama says quit smoking because he was ‘scared of my wife’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama says he quit smoking for a reason that many husbands can relate to: “I’m scared of my wife.”
Boston voters to winnow field in first round of crowded mayor race
BOSTON (Reuters) – Voters in Boston head to the polls on Tuesday to choose among a dozen candidates for mayor in a preliminary round of voting in the city’s most wide-open mayoral election in decades.
George W. Bush defends Obama’s golfing: ‘It gives you an outlet’
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former President George W. Bush has come to the defense of his successor, President Barack Obama, where golf is concerned – saying it’s good for any commander in chief to hit the links while running the country.
Obama, Clinton to launch healthcare campaign push Tuesday
NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will turn to his unofficial “secretary of explaining stuff,” former President Bill Clinton, on Tuesday to help with a final push to extol the benefits of U.S. healthcare reform before new insurance exchanges …
Efforts to avert U.S. shutdown continue amid Republican discord
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A trio of Tea Party-backed U.S. senators threatening to stall a bill to fund the U.S. government ran into a wall of resistance Monday from top Senate Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
U.S. IRS official at heart of ‘Tea Party’ review scandal retires
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Internal Revenue Service official who was a key figure in the controversy over the tax agency’s scrutiny of conservative groups retired on Monday just as an IRS review board was poised to recommend she be fired.
Obama calls Kenya attack ‘terrible outrage,’ U.S. cooperating
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday called the attack in a Nairobi mall a “terrible outrage” and said the United States was providing all the cooperation it could to Kenya.
Fed official blasts White House handling of Bernanke succession
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – The White House has handled the process of picking the next chair of the Federal Reserve “terribly,” a top official at the U.S. central bank said on Monday in an unusual public critique of the delicate, and traditionally discree…
U.S. lawmaker releases draft of bill targeting patent abuses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. lawmaker who has been leading the charge against frivolous but expensive patent litigation released the draft of a bill on Monday aimed at hemming in so-called “patent trolls.”
