Andrews Air Force Base News

President Barack Obama still has the approval of a majority of Americans, but it's an increasingly pessimistic nation.

When President Barack Obama stands today before the mourning children, spouses and comrades of those cut down last week at Fort Hood, he will confront one of the most delicate and painful duties a president undertakes.

At the end of June, Edward Rhoney, a Blanchard Street resident, took a flight to Washington, D.C. But it wasn't just any trip - it was an Honor Flight and, for Rhoney, the trip of a lifetime.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday left for Europe and Asia largely to consult with US partners on curbing North Korea's and Iran's nuclear ambitions as well as on stabilizing Afghanistan.

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President Barack Obama 's dog Bo walks away from Air Force One after a vacation on Martha's Vineyard with the Obamas.

An E-4B National Airborne Operations Center plane, with the call signal "Venus 77," is launched from Andrews Air Force Base, near Washington, in response to the Pentagon attack, and is initially directed toward Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska.

The NTSB this week found the pilot at fault in a fatal medevac flight in Maryland in September 2008, but cited a lack of help from air traffic controllers as a contributing factor.

The National Transportation Safety Board today determined that the probable cause of the crash of a Maryland State Police helicopter emergency medical services flight was the pilot's attempt to regain visual conditions by performing a rapid descent and his failure to arrest the descent at the minimum descent altitude during a nonprecision approach.

President Barack Obama arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009.

The Department of Defense awarded nearly $30 million in stimulus contracts to six companies while they were under federal criminal investigation on suspicion of defrauding the government.

23, 2009. - AP WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency and empowered his health secretary to suspend federal requirements and speed treatment for thousands of infected people.

Big banks that got big bailout bucks should return the favor by lending more to qualified small businesses, President Barack Obama says.

If the communication system fails at Andrews Air Force Base near the nation's capitol, airmen in North Dakota will be ready to take over.

The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public Board meeting on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 9:30 a.m., in its Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W., Washington, D.C. The Board will meet on the following items: On September 27, 2008, an Aerospatiale , call sign Trooper 2, registered to and operated by the Maryland ...

Several hundred spectators have filed into the University of New Orleans recreation and fitness center after spending hours in the blazing sun waiting for access to the site of President Barack Obama's town hall meeting.

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Before President Obama even landed at Andrews Air Force Base, returning from his mission to Copenhagen to win the 2016 Olympic Games, Chicago had been voted off the island.

My husband is in the Air Force and has orders to go to Alaska. Another permanent change of station move would bankrupt our family - we are overmortgaged.

It was barely a week after the recent Sept. 11 anniversary and Mary Novotny, who lost her son Brian at the World Trade Center, was waiting at Andrews Air Force Base for a flight to the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.