Barack Obama

Riven by partisanship, the Senate plunged into a widely anticipated debate Monday over sweeping health care legislation that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have vowed to approve and Republicans have sworn to block.

President Barack Obama has nominated James Santelle as the next U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

HILLSIDE — The former CNN host is considering a run in 2012 which could pit him, one of illegal immigration’s biggest critics, against Sen. Robert Menendez, a champion for immigrant rights.

Within a week of US President Barack Obama’s visit to China, the US Department of Commerce decided to slap final countervailing duties (CVD) on the import of $2.6 billion worth of goods from China.

The visit by United States President Barack Obama to Shanghai has generated an unexpected business boom for some in the city. A variety of T-shirts, bags, posters and trinkets with Obama’s image are once again hot items in Shanghai.

Washington (AFP) Nov 30, 2009 – President Barack Obama has given fateful orders likely to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan in a political gamble meant to forge an eventual US exit from a costly and gruelling war.

Washington (AFP) Nov 30, 2009 – President Barack Obama has given fateful orders likely to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan in a political gamble meant to forge an eventual US exit from a costly and gruelling war.

Washington (AFP) Nov 30, 2009 – President Barack Obama has given fateful orders likely to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan in a political gamble meant to forge an eventual US exit from a costly and gruelling war.

Washington (AFP) Nov 30, 2009 – President Barack Obama has given fateful orders likely to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan in a political gamble meant to forge an eventual US exit from a costly and gruelling war.