With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, US President Barack Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.

In the age of growing Chinese influence, Thailand becomes another nation that won’t stamp the Dalai Lama’s passport, [...]

US President Barack Obama threatened to fight Wall Street banks with a new proposal to limit financial risk taking, sending stocks and the dollar tumbling. “We should no longer allow banks to stray too far from their central mission of serving their customers,” he said.

Long backlogs of patients injured in the Haiti earthquake [...]

China ended 2009 with record monthly imports of crude oil and soybeans and a strong appetite for iron ore and copper, while its aluminum and steel sectors saw a welcome increase in export volumes. In fact, China’s exports rose 17.7% in December, suggesting the country has overtaken Germany as the world’s largest exporter.
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Why US President Barack Obama defaulted to Bush foreign policy positions: some believe that so far, the menu of foreign policy challenges, and the Administration’s response to each, is remarkably similar at the close of 2009 to what it was at the close of 2008.

The use of Tasers has become increasingly controversial [...]

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Landmark health care legislation backed by US President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in the pre-dawn hours early Monday, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all but assures its passage by Christmas. In related news, three years ago Massachusetts passed the most sweeping health care bill in the country, [...]

Today, one in five Americans is unemployed. One in nine families can’t make the minimum payment on their credit cards. One in eight mortgages is in default or foreclosure. One in eight Americans is on food stamps. More than 120,000 families are filing for bankruptcy every month. The economic crisis has wiped more than [...]

Israel triggered a fresh rift with Washington over settlement building Tuesday by approving the building of 900 homes for Jews on West Bank land it occupied in a 1967 war and annexed to its Jerusalem municipality.

Indian born Pranav Mistry is the inventor of the SixthSense device - a revolutionary mobile device which attempts to bridge [...]