Archive for May 25th, 2009
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Obama: N. Korea ‘challenging’ the world
President Barack Obama assailed North Korea Monday for new missile tests, saying the world must “stand up to” Pyongyang and demand that it honor a promise to abandon it nuclear ambitions. -
Meet the Democrat Who Won’t Give Specter a Clear Field (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com – In the three weeks since Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter left the Republican Party, Democrats have mostly succeeded in clearing a path for their prized defector.
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Obama calls SKorea, Japan on NKorea’s nuclear test (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama has called the leaders of both South Korea and Japan to discuss how the international community should respond to North Korea’s nuclear test.
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Govt to announce billions for green jobs, training (AP)
AP – Some of the $4 billion from President Barack Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus plan that was budgeted to renovate public housing will be spent to create so-called “green jobs” by making the dwellings more energy efficient.
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Petitions submitted for Kansas City mayoral recall (AP)
AP – Mayor Mark Funkhouser said Monday he would fight an effort to oust him after a group submitted what it says are enough signatures to force a recall election.
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Obama asks Americans to remember fallen troops
Barack Obama marked his first Memorial Day as president on Monday, calling on Americans to remember U.S. troops who died in the service of their country and navigating a Civil War memorial controversy.
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Readout of the President’s Call with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso
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Ex-NY Times journalists botched Watergate tip
The reporter rushed up to his editor, thunderstruck by what the FBI’s acting director had just let him know: The former attorney general — maybe even the president — was complicit in the Watergate break-in two months before.
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Pa. Dems slow to accept Specter (Politico)
Politico – Through a series of conference calls and personal meetings, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) is methodically working his way through the Pennsylvania Democratic Party organizational chart in an attempt to win over his new colleagues.
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Obama observes Memorial Day at Arlington cemetery (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama avoided a racial controversy on his first Memorial Day in office by sending wreaths to separate memorials for Confederate soldiers and for blacks who fought against them during the Civil War.
