WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is calling for action to reform U.S. immigration policy. Obama says the U.S. immigration system is “broken and dangerous,” and the country’s borders are too vast for the problem to be solved only by building more fences. “In sum, the system is broken, and everybody knows it,” he said. “Unfortunately, reform [...]
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama warned on Monday that women in America still faced unfairness and hardship, as he vowed to fight for gender equality at a White House reception on International Women’s Day. “I didn’t run for president so that the dreams of our daughters could be deferred or denied,” Obama said. “I didn’t [...]
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will convene a meeting of his Afghan war cabinet on Wednesday to assess the first major offensive of his troop surge strategy against the Taliban. The meeting in the secure White House Situation Room also comes after the reported capture by US and Pakistan spies of the Taliban’s top military [...]
Automakers have a duty to act “quickly and decisively” on safety complaints, President Barack Obama said in his first public comments on Toyota Motor Corp.’s handling of defects that led to recalls of 8 million vehicles worldwide. “Every automaker has an obligation when public safety is a concern to come forward quickly and decisively when [...]
WASHINGTON: The U.S. unemployment rate surprisingly fell to a five-month low of 9.7 percent in January and factory payrolls grew for the first time since 2007, hinting at a labor market recovery even though the economy lost 20,000 jobs. President Barack Obama cautiously welcomed the figures but said more needed to be done to put [...]
