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...reporting that H1N1 has become the dominant strain of the flu season. But the most positive development is that the virus has so far not mutated - a fact that makes it possible for scientists to create a vaccine for it. All these developments are being tracked at the White House, where flu meetings happen usually twice a week in the Situation Room and President Barack Obama gets updates in the Oval Office every other day or so. (See the 5 things you need to know about swine...
...flash, the White House issued its own statement: No, he hadn...
...calls they were permitted from the guesthouse where they were held, and former Vice President Al Gore - who co-founded the network that the two women were on assignment for - called his former boss to suggest the trip. Once assured that the North Koreans meant what they said, the White House signed off on the idea. The visit ended the journalist's 4½ month nightmare after being arrested March 17 and held in North Korea as punishment for allegedly crossing the border while filming a report on refugees in northeast China. Their plane touched down early Wednesday morning...
...Clinton's former ambassador to the U.N., Bill Richardson, said on Tuesday. Now the question of the moment is, Will the former President's visit reverse that deteriorating dynamic? Clinton met with Kim for 3½ hours on Tuesday evening. Even if the former President didn't - as the White House insisted - bring a specific message to Kim from Obama, it's safe to assume the two men didn't play hearts (Clinton's favorite card game) for three hours. Matters of substance, in some detail, came up, and even before Clinton can be debriefed, the outside world has learned...
...President on Aug. 4 that he is willing to reopen talks about his nuclear program but only directly with the U.S., what will Obama say in response? Is it likely that the President will insist on a diplomatic arrangement that is entirely a product of the Bush Administration? The White House likes to think of itself as guided by cold-blooded realists - diplomats who keep their eyes strictly on U.S. interests. Three successive Administrations - Clinton, Bush and now Obama - have decided the only real goal that matters when it comes to North Korea is getting it to climb...