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Ex-Fed Governor Meyer Obama has fired Bernanke
are telling for Bernanke's future at the Fed, said Former Federal Reserve Governor Laurence Meyer in an interview on CNBC Tuesday. "He essentially fired Ben Bernanke on the spot and gave him a fairly tepid testimonial afterward. It's time to really now focus on who the next chairman might be," said Meyer, who was a Fed governor from 1996 to 2002. Later in the interview, Meyer ...
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NSA surveillance has your opinion of Barack Obama changed for the worse | Poll
takes to the podium in Berlin , scene of John F Kennedy's historic speech on freedom, tell us whether your opinion of Obama has changed for the worse ...
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Internet monitoring must have proper limits Merkel tells Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a news conference after their meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, June 19, ...
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Tourist town Arusha under siege days before US President Obamas visit to Tanzania
Tourists were kept in their hotels by concerned staff and managers, who were worried that should the wagenis venture out, as they normally do, they might be caught up in the sporadic violence or have to shed involuntary tears, should some of the gas come their way. The Chinese president just left and US president Obama has to show to keep the balance of influence in Tanzania. East ...
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Africa White House Briefing On Obamas Meetings At G8 Summit
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary June 17, 2013 PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESS SECRETARY JAY CARNEY AND DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS BEN RHODES ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S MEETINGS AT THE G8 SUMMIT Killyhevlin Hotel Enniskillen, Northern Ireland 9:53 P.M. BST MR. CARNEY: Thank you for being here. Thank you for your patience. I know it's late, at ...
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Obama schedule for Wednesday June 19
President Obama's schedule Wednesday included meetings in Germany with U.S. Embassy personnel and German dignitaries, the White House said. The daily schedule indicated Obama would: -- Meet, with first ...
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Canada mulls penalties for offshore oil
The Canadian government announced plans to increase the liability for energy exploration companies working in Atlantic and arctic waters. Exxon Mobil announced plans in January to produce more than 700 million barrels of oil from the Hebron oil field off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Canadian Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughan has said oil spills from offshore platforms in the ...
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Hillary Clinton plays bailout card for Barack Obama
With her increasingly severe looks and drawn face, Hillary Clinton is fading fast from public eye. Few people think she will have it in her to run for the White House in 2016 when she will be 69, an age at which even Ronald Reagan's stamina for the job was questioned. Clinton's best chance was in 2012, when Barack Obama beat her to the nomination. Still, working on Abraham ...
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Hurricane Paul weakens off northwest Mexico
Hurricane Paul weakened on its way toward northwest Mexico, but still posed a risk to seafaring vessels, weather services said Tuesday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Paul, currently a category 2 storm, was about 210 km from coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur with the decreasing wind speed of 175 km per hour (kph) and moving north-northeast at 32 kph. ...
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Obama takes on Romney over taxes and jobs
U.S. President Barack Obama came out fighting on Tuesday in his second debate against Mitt Romney, branding the Republican challenger a tool of the rich and the oil industry. "Governor Romney says he has a five-point plan. He doesn't have a five-point plan. He has a one-point plan, and that is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules," Obama said. ...
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Playing politics on death of ambassador offensive Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday in the presidential debate accused his Republican rival Mitt Romney of playing politics on the Benghazi consulate attacks and death of the U.S. ambassador, saying such conduct is ...
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Obama says he is ultimately responsible for Benghazi consulate attack
U.S. President Barack Obama said in the second presidential debate on Tuesday that he is "ultimately responsible" for what happened in the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya last month. "I'm the president and I'm always responsible," Obama said in the high-stake debate with his Republican rival Mitt Romney. The aggressive Obama also assailed ...
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2nd Obama-Romney US presidential debate starts
President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney shooks hands on Tuesday at the start of their second televised national debate ahead of the November 6 ...
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Romney widens lead over Obama in swing states poll
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney leads President Barack Obama by four percentage points among likely voters in top swing states, thanks to a surge in support by women voters, finds a latest poll on Tuesday. As the two candidates heading into the second debate Tuesday night in New York, the USA Today/Gallup Poll shows that Romney is leading Obama 50 percent to 46 percent in 12 ...
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Favorite souvenirs of Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama Aloha Bobblehead Dolls are displayed for sale in the Waikiki Beach area of Honolulu, Hawaii, December 27, 2009. REUTERS/Larry ...
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Michelle Obamas motorcade escorts injured in crash
Two law enforcement officers in Michelle Obama's motorcade were injured on Monday when their motorcycles hit each other as they were escorting the first lady in Delaware, Ohio. Both were taken to the hospital for treatment but were not seriously hurt, according to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office. The officers were part of a motorcade en route to the airport from Delaware, where ...
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Obama faces challenges in second debate with Romney
Losing ground to Republican Mitt Romney on a host of issues, President Barack Obama faces a serious challenge to put his re-election bid back on track when the two men face off on Tuesday in their second debate. Obama's passive performance in their first debate two weeks ago and Romney's subsequent surge have raised expectations for a more fiery encounter at New York's Hofstra ...
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Obama Romney focus on 2nd debate preparations
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney were immersed in intense debate preparations on Sunday for the upcoming second presidential debate as their campaigns entered into the home stretch. Obama hunkered down with his campaign advisers in Virginia while Romney went back from campaign events to his Boston home. Stakes have been raised ...
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Shot fired at Obama campaign office in Denver
Denver police say someone has fired a shot through the window of President Barack Obama's Denver campaign office. Police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez says people were inside the office when the shooting happened Friday afternoon, but no one was injured. A large panel of glass was left shattered at the office on West Ninth Avenue near Acoma Street. Lopez says investigators are looking at ...
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Canadian naval officer pleads guilty of espionage
A former Canadian Navy intelligence officer who pleaded guilty of espionage on Wednesday was selling secrets to the Russians for about $3,000 a month. Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle showed no emotion as he acknowledged to a Nova Scotia provincial court judge that he understood the consequences of entering guilty pleas to three charges and was voluntarily giving up his right to a trial. Federal ...
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Biden defends Obamas Iran policy in debate
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden defended the way that President Barack Obama was handling the Iranian nuclear stalemate on Thursday. In the vice-presidential debate in Danville, Kentucky, Biden argued that Mitt Romney was offering an Iran policy which was not so different from that of Obama. He also stressed that if deemed necessary, the U.S. military was ready to ...
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GOP demands probe of Obama campaign donations
The U.S. Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday demanding an investigation into online campaign contributions to president Obama's reelection campaign. "[T]he President's campaign committee does not use the industry standard practices to guard against receiving fraudulent or excessive contributions via ...
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Biden fired up about debate Obama campaign
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is "fired up" about his upcoming debate with Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama said on Thursday. Campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that Biden "is pretty fired up and ready to go this evening for the debate." She said that at the debate, Biden's "number-one goal ...
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School evacuated on bomb threat in U.S. state of New Mexico
A school in the U.S. state of New Mexico was put on a two-hour delay on Thursday morning after someone called in a bomb threat, local media reported. Students who were at the Albuquerque Academy, a day school for grades 6 through 12, for before-school activities were evacuated and all entrances to the school were closed, according to a report by local TV channel KOB. Police responded to a call ...
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Top Obama terror aide presses Libya for action
The top White House anti-terror official John Brennan pressed Libyan President Mohammed Megaryef on Wednesday to hunt down those guilty of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. The White House said Brennan addressed "specific additional steps Libya can take to better assist the US in ensuring that the perpetrators are brought to justice," during talks with top officials in ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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