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For the first time since the publication on-line on Sunday of tens of thousands of classified reports about the war in Afghanistan, US President Obama has weighed in on the leak of the of secret military documents. While I am concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield that could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations. The fact is these documents do not reveal any issues that have not already informed our public debate on Afghanistan

Two US lawmakers proposed a bill this week, demanding the withdrawal of all US troops in Pakistan, where they are conducting covert operations against terrorists. Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich pointing to reports the US was stepping up its presence there.

WASHINGTON: By a vote of 67-28, the US Senate approved a roughly $60 billion bill to pay for the war in Afghanistan for the rest of fiscal 2010, lawmakers’ last piece of business before beginning a one- week recess reported by A Pakistan News . The House must still either pass its own version of the legislation or take up the Senate bill in June, when lawmakers return from the Memorial Day recess.

The president of US Barak Obama has called on parliament to pass $30 billion package. He asks the package for the small businesses. By facilitating small businesses jobs can be created.

US special forces commander visited a family in rural Afghanistan to plead for forgiveness after finally admitting that his troops killed five innocent people in a raid.

“Today, after almost a century of trying — today, after over a year of debate — today, after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the United States of America,” Obama said at a White House ceremony packed with ecstatic supporters. The law expands health insurance coverage for 32 million Americans, in part by preventing insurance companies from denying coverage to people who are sick or have pre-existing conditions.

WASHINGTON : US President Barack Obama said on Sunday that Americans had answered the call of history, after Congress sent him a sweeping health reform bill he said answered the prayers of the uninsured. “This is what change looks like,” Obama said, in late-night remarks in the East Room of the White House, soon after the House of Representatives voted to pass his health care plan after months of cliffhanger politics. A tired, but triumphant Obama said that despite the predictions of pundits that it was not possible to pass the mammoth bill, Americans had risen above their differences, though the measure passed without a single Republican vote.

The US House has passed the most-awaited landmark bill to overhaul the country’s health care system today by a vote of 219 to 212. The Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage.

Obama Health Care , The US House of Representatives Sunday would vote to overhaul health care system. During an address in this regard in Washington, Obama urged the US lawmakers to vote for the people for America. The President urged that it is time to pass the bill, which has seen decades of false starts and a year of tough negotiations.

A man who may have been upset with the Internal Revenue Service set fire to his home, got into a small plane and crashed it Thursday into a multistory office building, authorities said. At least two people were injured and a third was unaccounted for. The crash caused a fire and sent black smoke billowing from the seven-story Echelon Building.