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Romney Says He’ll Scrap Defense Sequestration

By Geoff Holtzman on May 18, 2012

Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney accused President Obama on Friday of undermining NATO by doing nothing to prevent scheduled cuts to the U.S. military’s budget from taking place.

French President Threatens Full Withdrawal From Afghanistan

By Geoff Holtzman on May 18, 2012

Newly-elected French President Francois Hollande met face-to-face Friday with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House.

Obama Will Push Euro Leaders To Take Shared Approach To Fiscal Crisis

By Geoff Holtzman on May 18, 2012

President Obama will urge European leaders to follow his model for economic growth when he sits down with them this weekend at a pair of key summits. (UN Photo/Evan Schneider)

Obama Touts New Food Security Initiative

By Staff on May 18, 2012

President Barack Obama Friday  announced a new international food security initiative aimed at bolstering agricultural investment in African countries. “Its a moral imperative, its an economic imperative and its a security imperative,” Obama said during remarks before a global agriculture symposium in Washington, D.C. “We’ve seen how spikes in food…

Obama Names First Ambassador To Burma In Over 20 years

By Staff on May 17, 2012

President Barack Obama Thursday named diplomat Derek Mitchell as the country’s Ambassador to Burma, the first American to serve in the position in 22 years. The decision follows an extended period of diplomatic isolation that has recently rolled back with a series of democratic reforms, including parliamentary elections that ushered…

Obama Leads In Fox News Poll

By Staff on May 17, 2012

President Barack Obama has a significant lead over Republican candidate Mitt Romney in a new poll conducted by Fox News. Obama comes in with 46 percent to Romney’s 39 percent among registered voters. 8 percent of respondents said they were not sure, 3 percent said they wanted another candidate and…

Report: GOP Strategists Want Rev. Wright Back In The Mix

By Staff on May 17, 2012

The New York Times reported Thursday that a number of Republican strategists have pitched a $10 million advertising campaign invoking Obama’s controversial former pastor to billionaire Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade. Early in the 2008 campaign, then-candidate Obama faced heat for attending Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church…

Obama Awards Posthumous Medal Of Honor To Vietnam Era Soldier

By Staff on May 16, 2012

President Barack Obama Wednesday awarded the Medal of Honor to Leslie H. Sabo, an Army Specialist who was killed while heroically attempting to defend his company amid an ambush in Se San, Cambodia. While Sabo was initially cited for the honor shortly after his death, the recommendation went overlooked, an…

RNC Releases Obama’s “Not Done List”

By Staff on May 16, 2012

The Republican National Committee has responded to President Obama’s ‘to-do’ list for Congress with a list of its own.

Romney Holds Strong Lead In Dem Convention’s Host State

By Justin Duckham on May 16, 2012

A new Rasmussen Poll shows Mitt Romney with an 8 point lead over Barack Obama in North Carolina, the site of the Democrats’ 2012 convention.