President Barack Obama hosts the summit in his home town, Chicago, a day after leaders of major industrialized nations tackled Europe’s debt crisis, backing keeping Greece in the euro zone and vowing to take steps necessary to revitalize the world economy. The shadow cast by fiscal pressures in Europe and elsewhere will follow leaders from [...]
The founder of TD Ameritrade, Joe Ricketts, a longtime conservative donor, has been pondering various proposals to bankroll a multimillion-dollar effort to help Republicans unseat President Barack Obama. But on Thursday Mr. Ricketts issued a statement that roundly rejected an advertising plan from a political consultant that would attack the president directly, using Mr. Obama’s ties to [...]
As President Barack Obama and 50 heads of state arrive for a NATO summit, parts of Chicago are all but shutting down — the result of dire warnings about heightened security, snarled transportation and the threat of large protests downtown. For weeks, the extensive preparations have been hard to miss. At one point, Blackhawk helicopters [...]
President Barack Obama‘s history-making embrace of gay marriage could send far-reaching political aftershocks through a presidential campaign defined by voter concerns about the economy but likely decided by slivers of the electorate in a handful of battleground states. “The politics, it’s not clear how they cut in some places that are going to be pretty [...]
Controversy has swirled over a earlier comment by the candidate that he opposed sending troops into Pakistan. Once a moment of national unity, the political battle over Osama bin Laden’s death intensified Monday as presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought to minimize the role President Barack Obama has carved out for himself in killing [...]
KAMPALA, Uganda – Ugandan officials are renewing a claim made with some frequency over the years: That rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army are receiving backing from the government of Sudan. Ugandan forces commander Gen. Aronda Nyakairima said Monday he found credible a recent report from a captured LRA fighter saying that [...]
Obo was the first place in the Central African Republic that Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army attacked in 2008; today, it’s one of four forward operating locations where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers to seek out Kony, who is believed likely to be hiding out in the rugged terrain [...]
“It doesn’t get much better than a veto threat,” says Michelle Richardson, Legislative Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. She’s talking about the announcement from the White House regarding the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. Earlier this week, a statement from the administration said that President Barack Obama‘s office threatened to veto it if it passed. [...]
WASHINGTON—It’s not every day that Washingtonians have to fight for an open chair at the Brookings Institution for a Wednesday-afternoon foreign policy event. But since it was Florida Sen. Marco Rubio doing the talking, two days after a campaign trail appearance with Mitt Romney, the think tank had a barnstormer on its hands. Rubio, a [...]
