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Take the Obama War Council Quiz

Here are some of the tough questions President Obama and his National Security Council are debating, according to administration sources. What is the impact on security in Pakistan of any decisions regarding Afghanistan? How will al Qaeda message about the...

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September 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (17)

In Copenhagen, First Lady Michelle Obama Campaigns for Chicago's 2016 Olympic Bid

ABC News’ Yunji de Nies reports: Copenhagen – From the moment her feet touched the ground here in Denmark, first lady Michelle Obama was in campaign mode, lending her clout to Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympic Summer Games. The...

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Today's NSC Meeting

A senior White House official tells ABC News that today's three-hour meeting was largely a briefing from military, diplomatic and intelligence sources of how the situation on the ground in Afghanistan and Pakistan has changed since March, when President Obama...

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FLOTUS Campaigns for Chicago, Is Copenhagen the New Iowa?

From Yunji de Nies and Sunlen Miller: It’s not the campaign, yet it sure feels like one. “We are fired up and ready to go,” First Lady Michelle Obama said at Mayor Daley’s welcome reception in Copenhagen this evening, a...

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Iranian Foreign Minister Makes Rare Visit to DC

ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: The US granted Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki a visa to make a rare visit to the country’s unofficial diplomatic presence in Washington, DC today, the State Department said. Mottaki was approved to visit Iran’s...

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Head of Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools Expresses Regret for Controversial Incident

A senior official of the Department of Education expressed regret today for an incident that happened when he was a young teacher in the late 1980s, saying he should have handled it differently, but that society could benefit from his...

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The President’s National Security Council Meeting

Our GMA report: -- jpt

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Today’s Qs for O’s WH – 9/30/2009

TAPPER: Would the White House be comfortable with parts of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban as long as they were not hosting -- providing safe haven for Al Qaida? GIBBS: Well, I hesitate to get into hypotheticals, what if, what if. The president is going to have a top-to-bottom assessment to ensure that we have a strategy that meets our goal, the goal that the president has outlined many times.

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September 30, 2009 in White House Press Briefing | Permalink | User Comments (12)

Heart-breaking, Wrong, and Not Quite Accurate

Fact-checking the legitimately heart-breaking anecdotes of real Americans is a thankless task. Health insurance companies make callous decisions that hurt real Americans, and no reporter wants to belittle those outrageous tales of bureaucratic bean-counting. Pointing out inaccuracies in versions of...

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September 30, 2009 in health care | Permalink | User Comments (156)

Obama Touts Medical Research Funding from Recovery Act Money

Calling it the "single largest boost to biomedical research in history" President Obama today traveled to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland to announce the awarding of $5 billion in grants for research into cures for cancer, heart diseases, and autism among other diseases.

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