Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead.
The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are expressing grave doubts about President Barack Obama’s revamped health care rule on birth control. They say it raises serious moral concerns and lacks clear protections for certain employers, insurers and individuals.
President Barack Obama’s new budget predicts a $1.3 trillion deficit for the ongoing fiscal year but that would drop to $575 billion in 2018 if the president gets his wish to raise taxes and if policymakers can live within tight restraints on the Pentagon and other Cabinet agency budgets, the White House said Friday.
The White House said Friday it won’t recoil from raising grave human rights concerns during a getting-acquainted visit next week by China’s likely future leader.
Michelle Obama says her daughters’ main concern about the coming presidential election is all about them.
