13 Nov

Bulldogs Return Home After Whirlwind Trip To The White House

The Fresno State Baseball team returned home to Fresno on Thursday, after a whirlwind trip to the White House.
The Diamond Dogs were invited to the Nation’s Capitol on Wednesday where they were honored by President Bush for their NCAA College World Series Win.
The team was one of nine NCAA Championship teams to be honored by [...]

31 Oct

Mccain Ends Bus Trip With Muscle

Columbus California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s final rally of his two-day bus trip.
The affable former muscle man easily joked about Democrat Barack Obama, poking fun at his slight build to attack his proposals.
“He needs to do something about those skinny legs,” he said. “We’re going to make him do [...]

21 Aug

Economy key during Obama’s Virginia trip

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama began a two-day Virginia campaign swing Tuesday in a community with the state’s highest unemployment rate, telling a Martinsville audience that he will take aggressive steps to improve the plight of economically-distressed communities that are reeling from plant closings and layoffs.
“I’m not saying that every job is going to come [...]

09 Aug

Bush Departs On Asian Trip

U.S. President George W Bush on Monday left the White House for a weeklong trip to Asia, which is also his last visit to the region as the US President. The first couple boarded Air Force One on Monday at Andrews Air Force Base en route to South Korea, Thailand and China.
President Bush will travel [...]

16 Jun

Bush ends Europe trip with good news

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown handed President Bush good news on two fronts Monday: a modest increase in Britain’s troops for the tough Afghanistan fight and a fresh European effort to squeeze Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The deeply unpopular prime minister seemed to calculate he had more to gain politically by being hawkish than he risked losing [...]

05 Jun

Houston Dynamo Make Repeat Trip to White House

The Dynamo’s match on Wednesday against D.C. United was postponed, but the team continued their raod trip with a morning tour of the White House, met with President Bush and posed for a team picture in the Rose Garden.
“It was quite an experience,” defender Patrick Ianni said. “It’s always an honor to be able to [...]

18 May

Bush wrapping up Mideast trip in Egypt

President Bush has encountered bitter Arab criticism over his peacemaking efforts during the final stop of his trip to the Middle East.
Bush is in Egypt where he’s been meeting with leaders from a handful of Arab nations.
Egypt’s President Honsi Mubarak has bluntly questioned whether Bush is serious about peacemaking. Bush says he’s “absolutely committed” to [...]

12 May

3 faiths coming together for Mideast trip

They will travel halfway around the world together, build a house for a needy family together and reach out to refugees of war together.
But showing people how different faiths can work together for the common good is the biggest thing a group representing Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities in Indianapolis hopes to achieve on a [...]

23 Apr

Bush and Jordan’s King Meet on Mideast

President Bush and King Abdullah of Jordan met privately for breakfast on Wednesday morning, as the White House tries to resuscitate the ailing Middle East peace talks before Mr. Bush leaves for Israel next month.
But the Jordanian Embassy said afterward that the king told Mr. Bush that negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis “should be based [...]

13 Apr

Rudd’s highly focused but human: Gillard

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is staying on top of the job overseas despite jet lag and a heavy schedule, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.
Mr Rudd has been showing signs of tiredness around the halfway mark of his 17-day world tour, and attracted criticism at home for giving US President George W Bush a mock [...]