U.S. to resume medevac flights from Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The U.S. military will resume evacuation flights to the United States for critically injured Haitian earthquake victims within the next 12 hours, the White House said on Sunday.
Accused 9/11 plotter likely to face execution
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Accused September 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried and convicted and is likely to be executed, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Sunday.
Gibbs: Accused 9/11 plotter likely to be executed
Accused Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is likely to be executed after being tried and convicted, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says.
H.W. Bush visits Obama at White House
Former President George H.W. Bush and his son Jeb pay a social call on President Barack Obama at the White House.
US pledges to cut federal government emissions by 28% by 2020
Barack Obama will also propose a tripling of government funding for new nuclear reactors to more than $54bnBarack Obama used his presidential authority to help advance his climate change agenda today, announcing that the US federal government and agencies would cut their giant carbon footprints by 28% by 2020.The announcement was held up by administration [...]
White House pitches rail project as job creator
President Barack Obama is pitching his $8 billion high-speed rail program to Americans as a jobs generator that will revitalize the domestic rail industry. But the full picture is more complicated.
Keeping climate change alive | Suzanne Goldenberg
In his state of the union address, Obama seemed willing to trade nuclear power and offshore drilling for climate bill votesA guest blog by Suzanne Goldenberg, the Guardian’s US environment correspondentGreens probably didn’t reckon the “change you can believe in” would mean building more nuclear power plants when Barack Obama was first elected. But that [...]
Barack Obama commits to climate change bill
President Obama pledges to help pass ‘comprehensive’ climate change law, but also backed nuclear power and drillingBarack Obama put himself firmly behind the effort to get a climate change bill through Congress last night – but said it must include a new generation of nuclear power.The brief passage on energy and climate in Obama’s state [...]
Projects in California, Florida, Illinois are the biggest …
High-speed rail projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the big winners of $8 billion in grants to be announced Thursday by the White House – the start of what some Democrats tout as a national rail-building program that could rival t…
Extracts from Obama’s state of the union address | Richard Adams
The White House has released the first extracts from President Obama’s state of the union address to CongressThe White House has just sent out the first set of extracts from President Obama’s speech tonight – so this presumably is what it wants the focus to be on…Part oneWe face big and difficult challenges. And what [...]