Obama hands $2 billion for solar plant, creating new jobs

The US government is awarding nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that US President Barack Obama says will create thousands of jobs and increase the use of renewable energy sources. The announcement was made by Obama during his  weekly radio and online address on Saturday. He said the money is part of his plan to [...]

Larry King’s ending his show after 25 years

Larry King, the broadcast veteran said Tuesday that he’s ending his “Larry King Live” show, his nightly show on CNN for 25 years. But King said he will still host occasional specials for CNN on major events. He also said he just wanted to spend more time with his wife and young children. “With this [...]

Gulf Oil Crisis!

On the 20th of April this year, a fire broke out on the oil rig, later causing an explosion and killing 11 people. A couple of days later, the rig sank and since then, 19,000 barrels of oil have been leaking every day, spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. BP, rig owner Transocean and other [...]

Final voyage of space shuttle Atlantis

Space shuttle Atlantis soared away for its final voyage carrying six experienced crews on Friday. Crows of more than 40,000 people and guests gathered and eager to witness the launch in Kennedy Space Center. This is said to be the biggest launch-day crowd in years. Launch spectators which includes Defense Secretary Robert Gates and David [...]

Space shuttle Discovery returns to Earth

The shuttle Discovery has landed back on Earth after a two-week mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The orbiter touched down on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center at 0908 local time (1308 GMT). Discovery had been held in space earlier in the day by stubborn fog and showers in the Kennedy area, [...]

Space shuttle Discovery blasts off from Florida

The space shuttle Discovery has blasted off on its mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The shuttle, on one of the final missions before the programme is shut down at the end of 2010, is hauling equipment and supplies to the station. The astronauts are due to carry out three spacewalks, to make repairs on [...]

Democrats vote to pass Obama health bill

The Democrats in the House of Representatives gained the 216 votes necessary to pass President Barack Obama’s historic health overhaul, a top party leader in the Congress spoke on Sunday. “We have the votes. We are going to make history today,” Representative John Larson of the House Democratic Caucus told the ABC television program “This [...]

Healthcare Reform Issues

US President Barack Obama went to Virginia to have said to pass a reform to have $2.5 trillion for the healthcare industry. Some of the democrats said that the president’s rally off to the healthcare issue is off to its leading failure despite of the president’s efforts. This is just showing up that the president [...]

Knowing more about President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States. He is born with the name Barack Hussein Obama II. Was born on August 4,1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii and is currently 48 years old. He is an American citizen. President Barack Obama is a son of Stanley Ann Dunham which comes from an American [...]

Lawmakers to press military on fate of gay ban

Lawmakers this week will press the military’s top uniformed officers for the first time on whether they think repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” makes sense or would be too disruptive. The testimony from each of the service chiefs on Capitol Hill will be crucial to the debate in Congress on whether to repeal the 17-year-old [...]

China anger at Dalai Lama-Obama meeting

A visit by the Dalai Lama to Washington has “seriously undermined” relations between the US and China, Beijing says. It released a strongly worded statement in response to US President Barack Obama’s meeting with Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. China had earlier expressed “strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition” to the meeting with a man [...]

Dalai Lama “very happy” with talks with Obama

President Barack Obama welcomed the Dalai Lama for closely-watched White House talks Thursday, risking fallout in China over the get-together and Obama’s statement supporting preservation of Tibet’s identity and human rights. “The president commended the Dalai Lama’s ‘Middle Way’ approach, his commitment to nonviolence and his pursuit of dialogue with the Chinese government,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said [...]

First lady Michelle Obama launches childhood obesity campaign

First lady Michelle Obama launched a nationwide campaign to fight childhood obesity on Tuesday. This was a part of her effort to teach America’s children about better nutrition and exercise. Michelle Obama said the “Let’s Move” campaign will encourage more: physical activity for children, healthier foods in schools, and more accurate food labeling. Some of her initiatives, [...]

Third day of disruption after snow in eastern US

Parts of the eastern United States remain largely paralysed for a third day after some of the heaviest snowfalls in decades. Transport links in Washington DC and nearby states have been severely disrupted and hundreds of thousands of people are still without power. Federal government offices and most schools are shut after the authorities advised [...]

Defense officials say it’s time to lift military ban on gays

The top defense officials of the U.S. announced on Tuesday that it was time to repeal the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and allow gay troops to serve openly for the first time in history, with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff proclaiming that service members should not be forced to “lie about who [...]

Pentagon Chiefs to Brief U.S. Senate Panel on Homosexuals in Military

President Barack Obama’s top two military leaders will brief a Senate panel today on the administration’s efforts to lift the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy towards homosexuals in the armed services. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has already been working with Obama on how to implement the change should such legislation pass Congress and will discuss [...]

Obama meeting with Dalai Lama harmful: China

Any meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama would harm bilateral relations, China warned on Tuesday while repeating Beijing’s refusal to discuss Tibet’s status with the spiritual leader’s envoys. An Obama meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader would “seriously undermine the political foundation of Sino-U.S. relations,” said Zhu Weiqun, executive deputy head of the Communist Party’s United Front Work Department in [...]

President Obama efforts to help middle class

Washington – President Barack Obama eagerly shows how much he understands the struggles of middle-class families, is now offering help for people to pay their bills and to save for retirement.  Obama will be announcing the new methods in a partial preview of his State of the Union address. The proposals will include a doubling [...]

Hillary Clinton lands in Haiti

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton landed in Haiti and met with Haitian President Rene Preval on Saturday, promising that U.S. quake relief efforts would be closely coordinated with local officials. Clinton’s promise depicted that a too-intrusive U.S. involvement in the aftermath of the quake would not exist, but assured the Haitians the humanitarian [...]

Haiti donations breaking all records

As of this moment, Haiti’s tragedy donations is considered the record-breaking of all compare to the previous Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 Asian tsunami. It was a 7.0-magnitude quake that struck in Haiti last Tuesday, January 12th, year 2010. It has been reported that more than 100, 000 people died and still a lot are [...]

Obama’s Approval Rating Decreases

President Obama’s job aprroval rating has hit a new low, according to the latest national opinion poll released Monday, January 11, 2010. A CBS News poll conducted last January 6, 2019 found that 46 percent approve of how Obama is handling his job while 41 percent say they disapprove of the president’s performance governing United [...]

U.S. & UK shut down embassies in Yemen

The U.S. and Britain closed their embassies in Yemen on Sunday because of threats from al-Qaida. The closure came a day after both countries announced an increase in aid to the government to fight the terror group linked to the failed attempt to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas. The top U.S. general in the [...]

Airports on high alert after bomb attempt on Detroit plane

The airport security and passenger restrictions were increased at every airport around the world after a suspected terrorist tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight carrying 278 passengers on board and landing in Detroit. The man was attempting to destroy Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam with an explosive device, said Peter King of New [...]

12 Guantanamo detainees sent to home countries by the U.S.

The U.S. Justice Department said on Sunday that twelve inmates from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were sent back to their homelands, which included Afghanistan, Yemen, and the breakaway Somali enclave of Somaliland. Out of the twelve detainees, six were Yemeni, four were Afghani, and two were Somalis. The Yemeni and the Afghani detainees were sent [...]