Friday, June 5, 2009

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Obama: "I Will Not Forget What I've Seen Here Today"

The president makes brief remarks after touring Buchenwald, a former Nazi concentration camp, Friday. Chancellor Merkel, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel join the tour, the group places long-stemmed roses on a memorial site. PHOTOS: See gallery here.

Hospital Visit Up Next

The president will talk to wounded troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Ramstein Friday. Obama took some grief for cancelling a visit to the facility last summer.

Obama Has "No Patience" for Holocaust Denials

The president tells NBC's Brokaw while in Dresden Friday Iran's Ahmadinejad should make his own visits to Buchenwald concentration camp. "I have no patience for people who would deny history. The history of the Holocaust is not something speculative." Click above to watch. PHOTOS: Obama in Germany.

Better Than Expected

The pace of layoffs eased in May, with employers cutting 345,000 jobs, the fewest since September. Meanwhile: Unemployment rate jumps to 9.4%, the highest is more than 25 years.

Obama: "The Moment is Now" for Mideast Peace

Calls for redoubling efforts toward separate Israeli and Palestinian states in presser with Chancellor Merkel Friday. Says he'll dispatch envoy George Mitchell to the region next week to follow up on his Cairo speech. Merkel agrees, says with new U.S. president "there is a truly unique opportunity to revive this peace process." [...]

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Every time I write a story about the state of the health reform debate --like this one--commenters here want to know why I don't include an extensive discussion of a single-payer option, which essentially would be a government-financed program like Medicare for everyone. The reason is that it is not going to pass. The House [...]

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