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Obama is touring a rehabilitation center in Laos that treats victims of bombs the U.S. dropped during the Vietnam War. Obama says the U.S. dropped some 270 million cluster bombs, including 80 million that never exploded and remain a threat.
In this March 23, 2010, file photo, President Barack Obama signs the health care bill in the East Room of the White House in Washington. With the nation still divided over "Obamacare," President Barack Obama is laying out a blueprint for addressing unsolved problems with his signature health law, including a renewed call for a "public option" to let Americans buy insurance from the government.
5, 2016. . Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, center left, waves as he walks with vice presidential candidate Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind., center right, during a visit to the Canfield Fair, Monday, Sept.
Laotian President Bounnhang Vorachit, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama toast during an official state luncheon at the Presidential Palace in Vientiane, Laos, on Tuesday. VIENTIANE, LAOS >> Declaring a "moral obligation" to heal the wounds of a secret war, President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged help to clear away the 80 million unexploded bombs the U.S. dropped on Laos a generation ago - more than 10 for every one of the country's 7 million people.
Hillary Clinton is blasting Donald Trump for saying that he would have left a G-20 summit in China after a logistical flap over the staircase that President Barack Obama used to depart Air Force One. Clinton told reporters aboard her campaign plane en route to Florida that Trump's views offer "yet another strong piece of evidence as to why he should never be anywhere near the White House."
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte defiantly reaffirmed his controversial campaign against drugs Tuesday and called for a redoubling of crime-fighting efforts across Southeast Asia as he prepared to face two prominent critics of his policy: President Barack Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
A top aide of President Barack Obama said Tuesday he will meet with the wife of a missing Laotian activist, whose case has been repeatedly highlighted by human rights groups as an example of authoritarian excesses of Laos' one-party Communist government. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters he will meet with Shui Meng Ng on Thursday while Obama is visiting Laos.
With his “what the hell do you have to lose?” line, his talk of softening his stance on immigrants residing in the country illegally, his trip to Mexico City to express respect for the Mexican people, and his ventures into African-American communities in two U.S. cities, he and his campaign strategists have been working to target minority voters. “In a word, no,” said Hughey Newsome, a black conservative leader and Washington-based business consultant.
Lack of trust between the U.S. and Russia is getting in the way of possible cooperation to stop the violence in Syria, President Barack Obama said Sunday. The president said he nevertheless plans to keep trying against the odds.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has previously accused the Federal Reserve of keeping interest rates low to help President Barack Obama, said on Monday that the U.S. central bank has created a "false economy" and that interest rates should change. "They're keeping the rates down so that everything else doesn't go down," Trump said in response to a reporter's request to address a potential rate hike by the Federal Reserve in September.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump walks on stage during a campaign event in Dimondale, Michigan, U.S., August 19, 2016. Birtherism hasn't been a big part of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
Donald Trump said Monday that he would have left the G-20 summit in China over a logistical flap that left President Barack Obama disembarking Air Force One onto a plain metal staircase. "They won't even give him stairs, proper stairs to get out of the airplane.
5, 2016. . Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, center left, waves as he walks with vice presidential candidate Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind., center right, during a visit to the Canfield Fair, Monday, Sept.
Acknowledging the scars of a secret war, President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the United States has a “moral obligation” to help this isolated Southeast Asian nation heal and vowed to reinvigorate relations with a country with rising strategic importance to the U.S. Making the first visit by a sitting U.S. president, Obama said too few Americans know of the United States' covert bombing of Laos during the Vietnam War. As a first sign of a new relationship, Obama announced he would double spending for unexploded ordnance, committing $90 million over the three years.
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WASHINGTON, United States of America - Canadian diplomats will be pushing for the adoption of border legislation as the current U.S. Congress convenes for its final few months of business. The embassy in Washington wants U.S. lawmakers to deal with border reforms before a new president and Congress are sworn in next January.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed regret Tuesday over his "son of a bitch" remark while referring to President Barack Obama, in a rare display of contrition by a politician whose wide arc of profanities has unabashedly targeted world figures including the pope and the U.N. chief. In a statement read out by his spokesman, Duterte said that while his "strong comments" in response to questions by a reporter "elicited concern and distress, we also regret it came across as a personal attack on the U.S. president."
Congress will have a little more than four weeks in session beginning Tuesday before the November election, or around 20 days. Lawmakers are scheduled to leave town again in early October to return home and campaign.
A summit of Southeast Asian leaders to discuss issues ranging from terrorism to South China Sea tensions opened Tuesday, overshadowed by the Philippine president's intemperate comments in his debut appearance at the annual meeting. The insult was made more egregious because of who the target was - President Barack Obama.
The Republican nominee is rebounding from a summer of repeated stumbles that threatened to undermine his candidacy, underscoring his ability to claw his way back and stay competitive despite controversies that would sink any other politician. Trump and Hillary Clinton enter the critical post-Labor Day phase of the campaign in a dead heat.