Spartan Echo

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House declared Thursday, April 25,  that U.S. intelligence indicates Syrian President Bashar Assad has twice used deadly chemical weapons in his country’s fierce civil war, a provocative action that would cross President Barack Obama’s “red line” for a significant military response. But the administration said the revelation won’t immediately [...]

    MUMBAI, India (AP) — Low cost efficiency put India’s outsourcing companies at the heart of global business and created a multibillion dollar industry that for years has skated over criticism it was eliminating white collar jobs in rich nations. Now, the industry’s long-held fears of a backlash are being realized in its crucial [...]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the situation in Syria has reached, in his words, a “critical juncture.” A civil war that has raged in Syria for more than two years has killed 70,000 people, according to United Nations estimates. No end appears to be in sight and Syrian President Bashar Assad had [...]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said he’d been looking forward to a White House celebration of Memphis soul music for one reason. “Let’s face it, who does not love this music?” he asked Tuesday Apr. 9, opening the night’s concert in an East Room bathed in amber light and transformed by the addition [...]

  by President Barack Obama April 2, 2013 Ideas are what power our economy. It’s what sets us apart. It’s what America has been all about. We have been a nation of dreamers and risk-takers; people who see what nobody else sees sooner than anybody else sees it. We do innovation better than anybody else [...]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — How do you convince millions of average Americans that one of the most complex and controversial programs devised by government may actually be a good deal for them? With the nation still split over President Barack Obama’s health care law, the administration has turned to the science of mass marketing for [...]

  by President Barack Obama As we mark the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war, Michelle and I join our fellow Americans in paying tribute to all who served and sacrificed in one of our nation’s longest wars. We salute the courage and resolve of more than 1.5 million service members and [...]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Israel’s security depends in part on its ability to court Arab public opinion, as the strongman leaders it long depended on give way to democratically elected governments that may be more hostile to the Jewish state. “There is now a situation in which Israel can’t count on [...]

  JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran is about a year away from developing a nuclear weapon and the United States remains committed to doing everything in its power to prevent that from happening, President Barack Obama said in an exclusive interview aired Thursday,  March 14,  on Israeli TV. Just days before he is to arrive in [...]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is taking up a politically charged bill that would block the Obama administration from waiving any work requirements in the 1996 welfare reform law. House Republicans are using the bill to renew a political fight that started during the presidential campaign. They say President Barack Obama is trying to [...]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are sending mixed signals in agreeing to meet with President Barack Obama for talks over the budget impasse, while Obama is conceding that a political accommodation may be impossible. On the one hand, many Republicans who long have chided Obama for failing to engage their party on the nation’s [...]