Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the President welcomed the Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers to the White House beforeheading out on a three day bus tour across…
Aug. 18 – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden continues his China trip and is due to meet with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao, but Reuters Editor Warren Strobel says Biden’s priority is…
The struggle waged by the Lapindo mudflow victims has been a long and exhausting one. For almost four years, displaced villagers from Sidoarjo have been pressing PT Lapindo Brantas to deliver on compensation for their…
The final day of President Obama’s bus tour across America’s heartland was jam packed with meetings and spontaneous stops to enjoy the local landscape. On his way to a town hall in Atkinson, Illinois to talk about strengthening the economy, the…
As I was driving down those little towns in my big bus we slowed down, and I’m standing in the front and I’m waving, I’m seeing little kids with American flags, and grandparents in their…
 A 19-year-old Japanese student is presumed dead after she lost her balance Sunday and fell into the churning waters of Niagara Falls, police said Tuesday. The student, whose name was being withheld pending notification of…
When Ju Hong stepped before his class at UC Berkeley to discuss his status as an undocumented immigrant, the response was telling. “A lot of the students were surprised at seeing a yellow face,” says…
On the first day of his tour of rural America, the President takes questions on the economy.
Lintao Zhang/Getty Images New U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke addresses the media with his wife Mona (2nd R) and their children Dylan (L-aged 12), Madeline (2nd R-aged 6) and Emily (R-aged 14) in…
Pakistan gave China access to the previously unknown U.S. “stealth” helicopter that crashed during the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May despite explicit requests from the CIA not to, the Financial Times reported on…
This morning, President Obama will visit Cannon Falls, Minnesota to kick off his economic bus tour. The President is traveling around the Midwest to stress the vital role rural America plays in ensuring the growth of our economy, the…
If you don’t want your dollars going toward Chinese-made products, don’t sweat it — most of the cash you spend on them goes to U.S. companies and workers. Worried about buying a $70 pair of…
While members of Congress are at home in their districts, President Obama asks Americans that agree that it’s time to put country before party and pass stalled bills to help grow our economy to let…
The National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago files a class-action suit against the use of immigration detainers, requests for local police to hold immigrants while their status is investigated. A Chicago group has filed a…
Beijing – China’s second-largest train manufacturer will recall 54 bullet trains running on the new Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway after a series of malfunctions, a company official said Friday. The state-owned CNR Corporation earlier this week…
Welcome to West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the President announced new initiatives that will put unemployed veterans back to work and new fuel economy standards for trucks, buses and other…
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