Archive for July 10th, 2009
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Obama has full day in Ghana (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama begins a packed day in Ghana with a morning meeting in Accra with Ghanaian President John Atta Mills. -
Recovery and the Jobs of the Future
The President explains how the Recovery Act helped end our economic free fall, and how his agenda is helping to set a new foundation for our economy. From health reform, to energy, to creating the jobs of the future, the President’s proposals will make our economy stronger for both the current generations and our children, all in a way that will get our deficits under control. July 10, 2009. (Public Domain)
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Obama lands in Ghana on historic Africa trip (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama has landed in Ghana on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office. -
Vatican, White House: Abortion one topic of Obama-pope chat
U.S. President Obama and Pope Benedict XVI discussed current affairs, the Catholic Church’s teachings and abortion as they met for the first time Friday, according to the White House and the Vatican.
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Congress asked to probe troops extremist fringe (AP)
AP – One of the country’s main monitors of hate groups asked Congress Friday to investigate possible racial extremism in the military, after finding U.S. service members participating on a social networking site advertised as being for white people only.
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Pope presses Obama on abortion, stem cells (AP)
AP – Pope Benedict XVI stressed the church’s opposition to abortion and stem cell research in his first meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday, pressing the Vatican’s case with the U.S. leader who is already under fire on those issues from some conservative Catholics and bishops back home. -
Analysis: Obama suggests sanctions for Iran (AP)
AP – After a half-year of extending patient feelers to Iran, President Barack Obama has set a timeline warning Tehran it must show willingness to negotiate an end to its nuclear program by September or face consequences. -
US moving away from Afghan drug eradication (AP)
AP – The 4,000 U.S. Marines now pushing deep into Taliban-controlled tracts as part of an expanded war in southern Afghanistan are setting up fire bases amid some of the most productive poppy fields in the world’s opium-producing capital. -
FACT CHECK: GOP joins murky math on stimulus jobs (AP)
AP – House Republicans on Friday declared the nation’s economic stimulus efforts a “dismal failure.” But the convoluted math they used to disparage the recovery is as murky and meaningless as the White House formula championing the stimulus.
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G-8 is not enough: Calls for larger, recast group (AP)
AP – For all the smiles and upbeat talk, the just-ended Group of Eight summit showed how unwieldy the forum has become, run by Cold War-vintage powers while relegating the world’s fastest growing economies China, India and Brazil to observers.
