France will ban bonuses and stock options for executives whose companies get government bailout money, the president’s chief of staff said Thursday.
France to ban bonuses for bailed out firms
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Obama on the World Stage: What Power Means
“Power is getting people or groups to do something they don’t want to do,” writes Leslie H. Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, in his new book, Power Rules. It seems an aggressively simplistic thought for a member of the foreign policy priesthood.
More than 90,000 Web users ask Obama questions
In an appeal to the tech-savvy public, the White House’s Web site opened itself to questions for President Obama’s town hall meeting, which streamed online starting at 11:30 a.m. ET on Thursday
Pirates hijack two chemical tankers off Somalia
Pirates have hijacked two European-owned chemical tankers off the coast of Somalia in the past 24 hours, the European Union Maritime Security Center said Thursday. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will represent the United States at the United Nations meeting Tuesday in The Hague, the State Department said earlier. It is not clear who Iran will send to the conference.
Victim’s wife: Kidnappers’ silence ‘very cruel’
Lourdes Batista wishes she had super powers so she could use them to find her husband, she said Wednesday, 105 days after authorities said he was kidnapped in Mexico. Felix Batista, a renowned kidnapping consultant, disappeared after getting into a vehicle outside a Saltillo restaurant December 10
Obama’s Budget Fight Starts With His Own Party
It’s not exactly the can-do, uplifting kind of message that President Barack Obama or Congressional Democrats want to deliver to the voting public. But in the face of soaring deficit projections and growing Republican and moderate Democratic opposition to the Administration’s $3.6 trillion budget plan, it may just be the best they can do.
Sacked French workers free 3M manager
French workers on Thursday freed the manager of a factory run by U.S. company 3M held hostage for more than 24 hours in a labor dispute over terms for laid-off staff. Luc Rousselet was allowed to leave the plant in Pithiviers, central France, early on Thursday morning after talks between unions and officials from 3M France.
TV ad to put heat on Congress to pass budget
After e-mail pleas and nationwide canvassing, President Obama’s political arm has made a TV ad that will air Thursday, urging voters to pressure Congress to approve his $3.6 trillion budget. “America is facing tough times,” the narrator says in the 30-second ad. “President Obama has a plan to get our economy moving again, to cut the deficit in half and create jobs by investing in health care, energy independence and schools.
Obama’s ‘Trade War’: No Truck with Mexico
The U.S. press has given the flare-up an ascending series of alarming descriptions: “a dispute that could lead to a trade war”; a “mini trade war”; and the full, flaming “Obama’s first trade war.” This month’s ban on Mexican truckers operating in U.S
Turkish party leader missing after helicopter crash
The leader of an ultra-nationalist Turkish political party was involved Wednesday in a helicopter crash in a mountainous region of Eastern Turkey, the state news agency reported. (CNN) — I love Alex Castellanos