Obama, summit partners, eye intense global talks - Yahoo! News
L'AQUILA, Italy – President Barack Obama joined fellow world leaders in Italy Wednesday for talks on threats to global security and stability at a summit where climate change , a continuing global economic crisis , nuclear proliferation and world hunger took top billing. The G-8 meetings may lack the intrigue of Obama's sit-downs earlier in the week with Russia 's top leaders, or the emotion of the reception the first black American president surely will get in Ghana Saturday. But they...

Obama: U.S., Russia -not destined' to be rivals
President Barack Obama, working to drastically reshape U.S. relations with a skeptical Russia, said Tuesday the two countries are not "destined to be antagonists."

Obama attending G-8 summit in Italy - Yahoo! News
ROME – President Barack Obama is flying from Russia to Italy today for the G-8 summit of leading industrial nations . Agenda items include global warming , trade, Iran 's nuclear ambitions and food security . On arriving in Rome , Obama will meet with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano (neh-pahl-ih-TAN'-oh). Then it's on to the G-8 summit site in L'Aquila (LAH'-kwee-lah), a central Italian mountain town that was devastated by an earthquake in April. Obama will be greeted there by Silvio...

Obama, Putin meet at last, exchange pleasantries - Yahoo! News
NOVO OGARYOVO, Russia – President Barack Obama , meeting Tuesday with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for the first time, called their talks "an excellent opportunity to put U.S.-Russian relations on a strong footing." Putin told his guest: "With you, we link our hopes for the furtherance of relations between our two countries." Putin warmly greeted Obama for talks on a clear, sunny morning in Nova Ogaryovo, a Moscow suburb where the prime minister's white and yellow traditional...

Obama asks Russians to forge partnership with US - Yahoo! News
MOSCOW – Working to turn Russia from antagonist to ally, President Barack Obama asked the Russian people Tuesday to "forge a lasting partnership" with the U.S., but he acknowledged after talks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that on divisive issues there won't be "a meeting of the minds anytime soon." Obama was wrapping up a two-day stay in Russia, during which he and President Dmitry Medvedev said they were determined by year's end to negotiate a new nuclear arms treaty that would...

David Ignatius - 'Miracle and Mystery': Why Russians Love Putin
Why do Russians love Vladimir Putin? Read "The Brothers Karamazov."

Obama to tell Putin: Time to move past Cold War - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – Days from his first Moscow summit, President Barack Obama declared Thursday that former Russian President Vladimir Putin "still has a lot of sway" in his nation and needs an in-person reminder the Cold War is over. On next week's trip, Obama will meet not only with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev but with Putin, the prime minister who hand-picked Medvedev as his successor. Said Obama: "I think that it's important that even as we move forward with President Medvedev that...

Obama asks Russians to forge partnership with US - Yahoo! News
MOSCOW – Working to turn Russia from antagonist to ally, President Barack Obama asked the Russian people Tuesday to "forge a lasting partnership" with the U.S., but he acknowledged after talks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that on divisive issues there won't be "a meeting of the minds anytime soon." Obama was wrapping up a two-day stay in Russia, during which he and President Dmitry Medvedev said they were determined by year's end to negotiate a new nuclear arms treaty that would...

Barack Obama: Vladimir Putin is 'living in the past'
Barack Obama yesterday accused Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, of "living in the past" and indulging in Cold War thinking on the eve of his first trip to Russia as US president.

Officials say tentative stimulus deal reached
WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid stunning new job losses and yet another bank failure, key senators and the White House reached tentative agreement Friday night on an economic stimulus measure at the heart of President Barack Obama's recovery plan. Two officials said the emerging agreement was for a bill with a $780 billion price tag, but there was no immediate confirmation. The tentative agreement capped a tense day of back room negotiations in which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, joined by White...

Power of Stimulus Slow to Take Hold
Five months after Congress approved a massive package of spending and tax cuts aimed at reviving an ailing economy, the jobless rate is still climbing and the White House is scrambling to reassure an anxious public that President Obama's prescription for economic recovery is on the right track.

In Georgetown Speech, Obama Offers Cautious Optimism
President Obama today laid out a vision for a new era of U.S. economic prosperity and called on the nation to "get serious" about reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security -- reform that he said starts with overhauling the American health care system.

Mixed results for Moscow summit
President Barack Obama leaves Moscow getting the expected agreement on deep cuts in nuclear arsenals, but with few assurances of Kremlin help in solving other foreign policy issues.

Why Obama wants to be as vague as possible about health care reform.
President Obama is in Russia, but he's still holding hands in Washington. Advocates of a public option as a part of health care reform got spooked he was going to abandon them, so between press releases heralding the U.S./Russian agreement on reducing stra