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Obama faces showdowns on health, Afghanistan, jobs
Nov 19 2009 7:06PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip. On Saturday, two days after his return to Washington, the Senate plans a make-or-break vote on his hard-fought plan to overhaul the nation's health care system. Obama also confronts a difficult choice on strategy and troop levels in Afghanistan, which will be criticized no matter what he decides.
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Gates names West, Clark to lead Fort Hood review
Nov 19 2009 2:46PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trying to avert another tragedy like the Fort Hood shootings, Defense Secretary Robert Gates named a former Army secretary and former Navy chief to review a broad range of Pentagon programs, ranging from medical and personnel policies to how well military bases are secured.
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Obama, revisiting Nixon, says 9/11 suspect guilty
Nov 19 2009 2:11AM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama appeared to be taking a page from Richard Nixon's playbook Wednesday when he seemed to declare the suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed guilty and deserving of the death penalty.
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Obama, Holder predict conviction in 9/11 case
Nov 18 2009 8:37PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - From opposite ends of the globe, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder firmly rejected criticism Wednesday of the planned New York trial of the professed Sept. 11 mastermind and predicted Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be exposed as a murderous coward, convicted and executed.
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Obama: Professed 9/11 mastermind will be convicted
Nov 18 2009 11:50AM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted and executed as Attorney General Eric Holder proclaimed: "Failure is not an option."
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Obama: Aim is to put US on path to end Afghan war
Nov 18 2009 5:08AM CT
BEIJING (AP) - President Barack Obama said Wednesday his upcoming strategy in Afghanistan will "put us on a path towards ending the war" and that his goal is not to pass the conflict on to the next president.
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