(new info, grafs 1, 5) Key measures of the U.S. job and housing markets have gotten a bit worse recently. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department shows the number of Americans signing up for unemployment compensation rose by 9,000 to a nationwide total of 429,000. The report is the latest in a series showing continued […]
CIA Nominee Petraeus to Testify Thursday
Posted June 23rd, 2011 at 11:40 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, General David Petraeus, is testifying Thursday on his nomination. The current commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan is addressing members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. If confirmed by the full Senate, Petraeus would succeed former CIA director Leon Panetta, the […]
Obama Tells VOA ‘Tide of War Is Receding’
Posted June 23rd, 2011 at 11:30 am (UTC-5)
President Barack Obama has told the American people he is withdrawing 33,000 troops from Afghanistan, and he is sending the same message to U.S. soldiers themselves Thursday. The president told VOA in an interview broadcast worldwide, including in Afghanistan, that he and his top advisers feel “the tide of war is receding,” and he pledged […]
Clinton Highlights Progress in Afghanistan
Posted June 23rd, 2011 at 11:10 am (UTC-5)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says considerable progress has been made in Afghanistan through the increased presence of U.S. military, civilian and diplomatic personnel. Clinton testified before a Senate panel Thursday, one day after U.S. President Barack Obama announced plans to withdraw 33,000 American troops from Afghanistan in about a year. Those troops were […]
Obama Tells VOA ‘Tide of War Is Receding’
Posted June 23rd, 2011 at 10:05 am (UTC-5)
President Barack Obama has told the American people he is withdrawing 33,000 troops from Afghanistan, and he is sending the same message to U.S. soldiers themselves Thursday. The president told VOA in an interview broadcast worldwide, including in Afghanistan, that he and his top advisers feel “the tide of war is receding,” and he pledged […]
US Jobless Claims Rise
Posted June 23rd, 2011 at 9:10 am (UTC-5)
A key measure of the U.S. job market got a bit worse last week. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department shows the number of Americans signing up for unemployment compensation rose by 9,000 to a nationwide total of 429,000. The report is the latest in a series showing continued weakness in U.S. employment. The head […]
Michelle Obama Continues African Trip
Posted June 23rd, 2011 at 6:45 am (UTC-5)
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama meets Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu Thursday as she wraps up her visit to South Africa. The two are set to meet in Cape Town. But Mrs. Obama’s planned ferry ride to Robben Island prison, where former South African President Nelson Mandela was jailed for 18 years, was cancelled […]
Obama Orders 33,000 Troops Out of Afghanistan
Posted June 23rd, 2011 at 5:30 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama goes to New York Thursday to promote his plan to withdraw 33,000 American troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012. Mr. Obama is due to meet with soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York. It is one of the most frequently deployed divisions to Afghanistan. In […]
Obama Orders 33,000 Troops Out of Afghanistan
Posted June 23rd, 2011 at 3:20 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has announced the beginning of the end of the country’s 10-year war in Afghanistan, ordering the withdrawal of 33,000 American troops by the end of 2012. In a White House address Wednesday, President Obama told the American people “the tide of war is receding.” He said the first 10,000 American troops […]
Obama’s Afghan Strategy Forges a Middle Ground in U.S. Thought
Posted June 23rd, 2011 at 2:40 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama’s new troop withdrawal plan for Afghanistan appears to fall in the middle ground of current American thinking about the decade-long war — too quick a drawdown for some of its military commanders, but possibly too slow for a war-weary electorate. Mr. Obama announced his plan Wednesday night to bring home 33,000 […]
