WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday signed a $600 million bill to beef up security on the border with Mexico, and his aides pressed lawmakers to set aside election-year politics and work toward broader immigration reform.
Also tagged aides, aides-pressed, border, broader-immigration, domesticnews, friday, mexico, obama, security-on-the, set-aside, the-borderWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday called on Iran to immediately release three Americans who were detained a year ago after straying across the border while hiking in the mountains of northern Iraq.
Also tagged a-year-ago, across-the, across-the-border, after-straying, border, border-while, called-on-iran, iraq-, mountains, obama, president, release-three, the-mountains, year-agoJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – An unabashed U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told President Barack Obama on Friday he was sorry for leaving him behind to manage the oil spill but was thrilled to be watching the World Cup.
Also tagged for-leaving, friday, him-behind, manage-the, manage-the-oil, president, president-barack, watching-the-worldWASHINGTON/PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday slammed the companies involved in a massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill as BP Plc readied a siphoning system to contain a growing environmental disaster.
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