President Barack Obama made it official today in a speech to Marines at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. He said US combat troops will be out of Iraq by August of next year. NPR's Don Gonyea reports from Camp Lejeune. The president's announcement mea...
President Barack Obama today released a more than 3.5-trillion-dollar spending plan that will raise taxes for the richest Americans while also laying the groundwork for universal health care. The plan also forecast the biggest deficit since World Wa...
Details of the Obama administration's budget blueprint scheduled to be released tomorrow are beginning to trickle out. Among other things, the plan is expected to set a goal of cutting the blooming budget deficit in half by the end of the president'...
President Barack Obama is expected to discuss details of his administration's economic recovery package in an address before a joint session of Congress tonight. Presidential Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says Mr. Obama will be honest about where we...
Meeting with his economic advisors and others at the White House today, President Barack Obama said even with the economic challenges facing the nation, he plans to cut the nations budget deficit by half by the end of his first term in office. Presi...
The nation's Republican governors are expressing sharply different views about whether to accept federal funding from the administration's stimulus plan and about how best to respond to the nations economic crisis. The National Governors Association...
The proposed budget that President Obama will deliver to Congress this coming week will reportedly seek to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years. Mr. Obama says it's a goal that is crucial to the nation's financial future. It will...
To say stock market investors are pessimistic as the week winds down would be something of an understatement. All three of the major stock market indexes ended the session lower today. The fresh bear market lows followed remarks from Senate Banking...
On his first foreign trip since taking office, President Barack Obama met today with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The two men talked about a variety of issues ranging from the war in Afghanistan to the current state of the economy. At a n...
President Barack Obama unveiled his 75-billion-dollar plan aimed at dealing with the nation's foreclosure crisis today. Traveling to Arizona, the president said while the plan will not save every home, it could help as many as nine million people re...
President Barack Obama traveled to Denver today where he has signed into law the 787-billion-dollar economic stimulus bill sent to him by Congress last week. The president called it a balanced plan which he said contains a mixture of tax cuts and in...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Tokyo, the first stop on a weeklong swing through Asia. She said she decided to go there first because Asia is an indispensable region. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports. Secretary Clinton says she plans...
Arizona Republican Senator John McCain says the 787-billion-dollar stimulus package passed by Congress last week is flawed. It is incredibly expensive. It has hundreds of billions of dollars in projects which will not yield in jobs. McCain spoke on...
President Obama will sign the economic stimulus bill on Tuesday at a ceremony in Denver. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pointed to the legislation today in urging fellow finance ministers from the world's industrial powers to take steps to bols...
The economic stimulus package is moving toward final passage. The House voted 246 to 187 today to pass the 787-billion-dollar bill. NPR's Audie Cornish reports from the Capitol. The House passed the stimulus plan a little more than three weeks after...
