Topic: The White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Senate Republican on Thursday sought to break a year-end impasse over extending a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, an issue that has deeply divided his party and raised the risk of an economic downturn in ...
Real estate mogul and reality television star Donald Trump said Tuesday he was pulling out of a Republican debate he had been due to moderate this month, after all but two of the candidates declined to appear.Trump, who briefly flirted with his ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House rejected on Friday the latest proposal from Republicans in Congress on a payroll tax cut, saying its costs needed to be offset in a balanced away and not with budget cuts exempting the rich."We are open ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Friday urged Cuba to immediately release jailed U.S. contractor Alan Gross, saying it was "past time" to allow him to return home."Cuban authorities have failed in their effort to use Mr. Gross as a pawn ...
Fans of conservative darling Sarah Palin urged the former Alaska governor to jump into the race for the White House Wednesday, running a small ad on a local station in the key electoral state of Iowa.The ad comes as the Republican field ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It may not help the economy, but President Barack Obama found another move he can make without congressional approval on Wednesday: pardon a turkey.Obama, a Democrat, has spent the last several weeks criticizing the Congress and Republicans for not ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican presidential hopefuls largely agreed in a debate on Tuesday on the need to strengthen domestic surveillance and anti-terrorism laws but several warned of the potential threat to civil liberties.Newt Gingrich, the former House of Representatives speaker who ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's chief of staff Bill Daley has asked a senior aide to take on greater operational oversight of staff at the White House, a senior administration official said Monday.Daley, who became Obama's top White House adviser earlier ...
President Barack Obama on Monday met NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, as top officials again defended the US role in the western alliance's campaign that helped topple Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.Obama and Rasmussen spoke in the Oval Office in a meeting opened ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters opposed to a new oil pipeline from Canada to the United States circled the White House complex on Sunday to press President Barack Obama to reject the project on environmental grounds.Opponents to TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL ...
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