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Gov't Seeks to Limit Junk Food Ads to Kids
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is planning to ask food companies and restaurants to cut back on advertising unhealthy foods to children. Under guidelines obtained by The Associated Press, companies would be urged only to market foods to children ages 2 through 17 if they are low in fats, sugars and sodium and contain specified healthy ingredients. The government is planning to propose the voluntary guidelines Thursday, according to three people familiar with the process who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The guidelines set ...
White House: Obama Regrets Vote Against Raising Debt Limit
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The White House says President Barack Obama regrets his vote as a senator in 2006 against raising the debt limit. A fight over raising the debt limit is looming, and the White House is trying to explain away the apparent contradiction between Obama's previous opposition, and his position now that it must be increased. Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that Obama believes his vote was a mistake. He said Obama now realizes that the debt ceiling is too important to be trifled with. Republicans are threatening to withhold their votes to raise the ceiling unless Obama agrees ...
White House: Obama to Lay Out New Spending Plan to Cut Deficit
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - One budget deal down, President Barack Obama and Congress began to pivot Sunday from the painful standoff over this year's spending to a pair of defining debates over the nation's borrowing limit and the election-year budget. Much will be revealed at midweek, when the House and Senate are expected to vote on a budget for the remainder of this fiscal year and Obama reveals his plan to reduce the deficit, in part by scaling back programs for seniors and the poor. Across the dial on Sunday, messengers from both parties framed the series of spending fights as debates over cuts - a ...
White House Says Shutdown Will Delay Pay to Troops
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Obama administration warned Wednesday that a federal shutdown would undermine the economic recovery, delay pay to U.S. troops fighting in three wars, slow the processing of tax returns and limit small business loans and government-backed mortgages during peak home buying season. The dire message, delivered two days before the federal government's spending authority expires, appeared aimed at jolting congressional Republicans into a budget compromise. Billions of dollars apart, congressional negotiators were working to strike a deal by Friday to avert a shutdown by setting ...
US, Europe Increase Diplomatic Pressure on Libya
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - The Obama administration cut ties Thursday with Libya's embassy in the United States and announced high-level meetings with opposition leaders, as France became the first nation to recognize the governing council fighting against Moammar Gadhafi's regime. As Western powers examined their military options, the U.S. warned that a go-it-alone approach in Libya could have unforeseeable and devastating consequences. "We're looking to see whether there is any willingness in the international community to provide any authorization for further steps," she said. "Absent international ...
Obama: Here's Your Change, Sir
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Yemeni President Says US and Israel Behind Unrest
By not in system - AOL NewsSANAA, Yemen -- Yemen's embattled president on Tuesday accused the U.S., his closest ally, of instigating the mounting protests against him, but the gambit failed to slow the momentum for his ouster. Hundreds of thousands rallied in cities across Yemen against the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in the largest of the protests of the past month, including one addressed by an influential firebrand cleric, a former ally of Saleh, whom the U.S. has linked to al-Qaida. "Go on until you achieve your demands," Sheik Abdul-Majid al-Zindani told tens of thousands of demonstrators in the ...
Obama to Gadhafi: Be Nice!
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Newt Gingrich Says Obama's DOMA Decision Sparked 'Constitutional Crisis'
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyPresident Obama's decision this week to ease enforcement of the federal Defense of Marriage Act was a violation of his oath of office and has sparked a constitutional crisis, Newt Gingrich said Friday. In an interview with Newsmax.TV, the former House speaker accused Obama of acting like a "one-person Supreme Court" and called on Republicans to confront the president over his "arbitrary" suspension of the law. The Obama administration questions Section 3 of DOMA, which defines marriage for federal purposes as only between one man and one woman. According to Attorney General Eric Holder, ...
No-Fly Zone Over Libya: The Pros and Cons
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsAs Moammar Gadhafi's regime continues its violent crackdown on Libyan protesters, some world leaders and U.N. officials are calling for the imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya. This would prevent Gadhafi from ordering the Libyan air force to attack protest zones. Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, has asked the international body to impose a no-fly zone, and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has also backed the idea. But support for a no-fly zone is not universal. At The Nation, Robert Dreyfuss offers two arguments against the no-fly ...
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