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U.S. President Barack Obama tours the Badaling section of the Great Wall in Beijing November 18, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Lee

Obama job approval rating drops under 50 percent

Reuters - Fri Nov 20, 6:25 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's job approval rating has dropped below 50 percent in a second major poll in an indication he is suffering from the long healthcare debate and weakness in the economy, Gallup said on Friday.

  • Honduras' de facto leader Roberto Micheletti speaks during a news conference at the Presidential House in Tegucigalpa October 29, 2009. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas
    Honduras de facto leader says will step aside Reuters - 1 hour, 16 minutes ago

    TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras's post-coup de facto leader said on Friday he would give up his presidential duties for a week, a step Washington welcomed as a way to help ease a five-month-old political crisis.

  • Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin is surrounded by reporters after holding a news conference on health care at the US Capitol. President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate strove to lock down support to prevail in a landmark first test vote on his top domestic priority, remaking the US health care system Photo:Chip Somodevilla/AFP
    Senate Democrats eye key US health care victory AFP - Fri Nov 20, 10:12 PM

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrats in the US Senate strove to lock down support to prevail in a landmark first test vote of President Barack Obama's top domestic priority, remaking the US health care system.

  • Allergy danger prompts Country Crock products recall Reuters - Fri Nov 20, 9:47 PM

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Unilever United States Inc. said on Friday it was voluntarily recalling certain Shedd's Country Crock chilled side-dish products because they may contain sulfites.

  • Will Wilkerson, 26, holds a sign advertising a medical marijuana dispensary on Venice Beach in Los Angeles, November 18, 2009. Hundreds of pot shops have sprung up in the last couple of years across Los Angeles, taking advantage of California's medical marijuana laws to do a brisk trade in cannabis offerings branded with names like 'Big Buds' and 'Super Trainwreck'. Roughly 1,000 marijuana dispensaries now cater to cancer patients and recreational dope smokers alike -- but city prosecutors declared war on many of them this month with threats to take action against those selling pot for profit. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
    Los Angeles gets tough on medical marijuana shops Reuters - Fri Nov 20, 9:29 PM

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Past the security man and his pit bull and through a haze of eye-watering smoke, two youths load up a pipe next to a row of shiny glass jars with two dozen varieties of marijuana bud displayed like candy.

  • Karzai an 'unworthy partner': top US Democrat AFP - Fri Nov 20, 7:29 PM

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Calling Afghan President Hamid Karzai an "unworthy partner," a key Democratic leader warned Friday that Congress cannot fund an expanded military mission without a reliable ally in Kabul.


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