U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at Fort McNair to play basketball in Washington
U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at Ft. McNair Army Base in Washington to play basketball on July 24, 2010. UPI/Martin H. Simon/Pool
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Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown appears to apply to U.S. President Barack Obama, a constitutional lawyer coming to grips with government policies that keep prisoners of war incarcerated without hope of release and executes U.S. nationals overseas without benefit of trial.
Rey Decerega earned himself a footnote in U.S. history Friday by cutting President Obama's upper lip while playing basketball, the White House said.
The U.S. first family was at Fort McNair in the District of Columbia Thursday to help assemble thousands of backpacks for children of military personnel.
Honoring Abraham Lincoln at the National Defense University is apt since his tenure was marked by war as he worked for peace, U.S. President Barack Obama said.
The latest military trial in Washington into alleged abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison is the first to include testimony of a key military officer.
Military planners from 68 nations met in Bucharest Tuesday to plan cooperation in the war on terror.
U.S. assertions that democracy is blooming in the Middle East are fallacies, Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit told the Washington Post.
