President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Monday to address an escalating shortage of life-saving medicines, his newest effort to advance social and economic measures that have stalled in Congress. It is the fifth step he has taken so far in the past one week to gain an advantage over his Republicans rivals and to show the voters he is serious about tackling the country’s problems ahead the 2012 re-elections.
According to Obama’s administration officials, the killing of the Pakistani journalist who reported about the infiltration of militants in the Pakistan’s military was killed by Pakistan’s powerful spy agency.
U.S. President Barrack Obama will order a U.S Troop drawdown from Afganistan whereby 10,000 soldiers would be back in America by this year. After a bloody and inconsistently waged decade-long war and nation building effort, the White House addresses may also come to be seen as the moment when the United States began to disengage from Afganistan.