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President John Mahama has called on Ghanaians to renew his mandate in order to complete the job his predecessor John Mills has started.
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President Obama came out with guns blazing at today's news conference, his first since re-election, pushing back hard against Republican senators' disparaging remarks about U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, Washington's odds-on favorite to get the nod as America's next secretary of state.
The president may indeed be genuinely outraged that one of his reportedly closest advisors is taking heat for the Sept. 11 snafu in Benghazi -- a situation Rice had nothing to do with. He repeated the administration's claim that when Rice took to the airwaves on Sept. 16 to explain the events in Libya, she was merely working with what the intelligence community had given her. And as far as we know, that's precisely what happened. (Benghazi isn't really the reason senators are objecting to Rice anyway, but that's ...
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During his press conference today President Obama denied a recent New York Times report that bilateral talks with the Iranians are imminent, but said "there is still a window of time for us to resolve this diplomatically," and that he would "make a push in the coming months to see if we can open up [...]
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Mitt Romney is attributing his loss in the 2012 election to the "gifts" President Obama gave to minority voters, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. Speaking to donors on Wednesday, the former Massachusetts governor praised his own campaign, but speculated that Obama won because he was "very generous" to his base: Mitt Romney told his [...]
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In four of the swing states President Obama swept, voters said energy was one of their top considerations in casting their ballot, according to a post-election poll released by the American Council on Renewable Energy and Advanced Energy Economy Ohio Institute. These voters also indicated they were supportive of candidates advocating for clean energy (Iowa: [...]
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The Center for American Progress (CAP) on Wednesday released a proposal that would cut $385 billion from U.S. health care expenditures without shifting the burden of costs onto America's seniors and the middle class. Dubbed "The Senior Protection Plan," the proposal was unveiled in the face of impending budget negotiations between President Obama and Congressional [...]
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Pro-NPP pressure group Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) wants the Institute for Economic Affairs to use Wednesday nightÂ’s presidential debate to bring the President John Mahama to respond to the series of corruption cases reported against him.
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President Obama has yet to nominate anyone to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, but Republicans are already lining up in opposition to potential replacement U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, citing her complicity in the administration's alleged failures in responding to the attacks in Benghazi, Libya. On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promised to filibuster [...]
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