The following statement was issued on 24 February by the Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in connection with the announcement by the Government of Israel concerning religious sites in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights […]
Walking back to the White House to grab lunch after the morning session of the bipartisan meeting at the Blair House, the President stopped in front of the gate on Pennsylvania Avenue to answer a quick question about progress so far: Q. How is it going, Mr. President? THE PRESIDENT: It’s interesting. I mean, I don’t […]
The International Narcotics Control Board was concerned that the ?creeping normalization? of so-called medicinal marijuana might spur addictive or hard-core use of the drug, a Board member said today while presenting its annual report at a Headquarters press conference. Melvin Levitsky said that, under the international treaties that had established the Board, Governments had […]
Imagine you were trying to measure the size of an iceberg and you only considered the part above the water. You’d be missing most of the picture, right? That’s much like what happened in this story on the cost of construction jobs created by the Act. The article considers only the tip of the iceberg, […]
The 2010 world census was crucial in helping countries emerging from conflict better plan national development strategies and institute democratic reform, United Nations experts on census gathering said this afternoon at a Headquarters news conference. ?The year 2010 is very important because it is the climax of the 2010 round of the population and […]
If you’re watching the bipartisan healthcare meeting today, you’ve seen some people leaning on a talking point that premiums will increase under health care reform. Let’s be clear: our approach will lower costs for American families and businesses, and slow the growth of costs for the country as a whole. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the […]
The United Nations response to the earthquake in Haiti had been extraordinary, given the unique situation in which both the country?s and the Organization?s capabilities had been devastated, a top official of the world body said at Headquarters today. ?This is the most challenging disaster response that the United Nations has ever faced in […]
Food desert? What’s a food desert? As part of Lets Move!, the campaign to end childhood obesity, First Lady Michelle Obama is taking on food deserts. These are nutritional wastelands that exist across America in both urban and rural communities where parents and children simply do not have access to a supermarket. Some 23.5 million […]
[UPDATE: This event has now concluded.] On Monday the President released his proposal to move forward on health reform that will finally put American families and small businesses in charge of their own health care. The President will bring the proposal to tomorrow’s bipartisan meeting on reform as a starting point for discussion. While we […]
As the Recovery Act crossed the one year mark, newspaper editorial boards across the country took a good, hard look at the program and weighed in on its impact. From the St. Petersburg Times’ evaluation that “One year later, stimulus shows results in Florida” to the Philadelphia Inquirer’s verdict that “the stimulus rescued America,” consensus […]
