President Barack Obama just can’t seem to resist cracking wise about Congress, even when the timing of his humor seems a bit off. Back in late December, a laugh line he aimed at Capitol Hill even as tense talks neared a...
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President Barack Obama is escorted by Speaker of the House John Boehner while leaving the Capitol on March 19, 2013 in Washington.
Boehner on Obama: Teasing the ‘Ones You Love’
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President Barack Obama is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an official welcoming ceremony on his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport on March, 20, 2013 near Tel Aviv, Israel.
Netanyahu’s ‘Red Line,’ Obama’s Joke
This hasn’t been a laughing matter for Israel and the U.S. But today, President Barack Obama managed to find some humor in it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been urging world leaders, particularly Obama, to set “red lines” for...
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President Barack Obama with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they walk along the Colonnade of the White House in this March 5, 2012 file photo.
Obama’s Netanyahu Welcome Note: Israeli Flag of ‘Unbreakable Alliance’
It takes an election to raise a peace flag. So much was made of the allegedly deteriorated relationship between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during last year’s U.S. elections — remember Republican Mitt Romney’s tour of...
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Roberto Briones places a poster for the new film "Koch"by Neil Barsky outside of the Angelica Film Center on the morning that the iconic former New York mayor passed away Feb. 1, 2013 in New York City.
Washington Daybook: Guns and a Funeral
President Barack Obama will continue his push to rally support for gun control proposals in a trip to Minnesota today as lawmakers in Arkansas vote on a bill that would permit concealed handguns in churches and other houses of worship,...
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President Barack Obama arrives in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 14, 2012, for his first post election day news conference. Photograph by Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo
Obama: Election Soon `Forgotten’
On Day One of his presidency, Republican Mitt Romney liked to say in his TV ads, he’d start taking care of all sorts of business. He promised an ambitious agenda, starting with the repeal of “Obama-care.” On Day One after...
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A damaged bus following Wednesday's deadly suicide attack on a bus full of Israeli vacationers at the Burgas airport parking lot, Bulgaria.
Obama’s Appeal to Jewish Voters: `The Unbreakable Bond’
In the wake of a terrorist attack in Bulgaria that killed five Israelis — and as Mitt Romney prepares to travel to Jerusalem later this month — the stated commitments of President Barack Obama and his Republican rival to the...
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