All posts tagged "obama"

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    Obama deems N. Korean threats as ‘national emergency’

    U.S. President Barack Obama deemed North Korea and its ongoing of threats as a an official “national emergency” by executive order in a letter sent to Congress on Monday. His executive order is a continuation of the...

    • Posted June 24, 2015
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  • FILE - In this April 26, 2011 file photo, doughnuts are displayed in Chicago. There are a lot fewer trans fats in the nation?s food than there were a decade ago, but the Obama administration is moving toward getting rid of them almost entirely. The Food and Drug Administration says Americans still eat about a gram of trans fat every day, and phasing it out could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths each year. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
    Obama administration orders food companies to phase out trans fats

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is ordering food companies to phase out the use of heart-clogging trans fats over the next three years, calling them a threat to public health. The move will remove artificial trans...

    • Posted June 16, 2015
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  • Jason Pak, left, and President Barack Obama at TPC Potomac golf club Saturday.
    Vet reunites with Obama on DC golf course

    On Saturday afternoon at TPC Potomac golf club near Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama appeared on the field manning a golf cart. With an outstretched hand, Obama offered a hello to war veteran Jason Pak, 24, who...

    • Posted June 2, 2015
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  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye, right, answers a report's question as U.S. President Barack Obama listens during a joint news conference following their meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, Friday, April 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Kim Hong-Ji, Pool)
    Park to visit Obama at White House on June 16

    South Korean President Park Geun-hye will visit the U.S. and meet with President Barack Obama on June 16, the White House and Blue House announced Tuesday. Park’s visit, her third to America since May 2013 and September...

    • Posted May 29, 2015
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  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye, right, answers a report's question as U.S. President Barack Obama listens during a joint news conference following their meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, Friday, April 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Kim Hong-Ji, Pool)
    Park to visit DC, meet with Obama in mid-June

    South Korean President Park Geun-hye is likely to meet with President Obama in a visit to Washington, D.C., in mid-June, according to Korean media. Sources say the visit is in the process of being coordinated. The meeting...

    • Posted May 12, 2015
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  • President Barack Obama speaks in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, April 16, 2015, during a Champions of Change event highlighting issues important to working families. Sanding on stage with the president are people that have championed working families. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
    Obama praises S. Korea for paying teachers as much as doctors, engineers

    WASHINGTON, April 16 (Yonhap) — U.S. President Barack Obama has praised South Korea’s education system again, saying teachers in Korea are paid as much as doctors and engineers. “My sister was a teacher, and so I know...

    • Posted April 16, 2015
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  • Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani claps at the start of a day-long conference on human rights organized by the Iranian exile opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran on Saturday, March 7, 2015. Giuliani was one of the main speakers. (AP Photo/Frank Jordans)
    Giuliani blames Obama for Ferguson shootings

    NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (joo-lee-AH’-nee) says President Barack Obama is to blame for the police shootings in Ferguson, Missouri, and other disturbing events because he sets the tone for the nation....

    • Posted March 13, 2015
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