Peter Baker

Peter Baker is the White House correspondent for The New York Times.

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Obama Says GOP Won’t Get “Ransom” to Lift Debt Limit

The president said Republicans would be responsible for the economic fallout if they refused to raise it.

By: Jackie Calmes ,; Michael D Shear ,; Peter Baker ,; TheNewYorkTimesNewsService

January 14, 2013

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On the Left, Seeing Obama Giving Away Too Much, Again

Just as Boehner has been under pressure from his right, Obama faces a virtual Tea Party of the left that sees his compromise as capitulation.

By: Peter Baker ,; TheNewYorkTimesNewsService

January 2, 2013

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US Suspects Libya Attack Was Planned

The Obama administration suspects that the attack that killed the American ambassador may have been planned rather than a spontaneous mob getting out of control.

By: Alan Cowell ,; David D Kirkpatrick ,; Peter Baker ,; TheNewYorkTimesNewsService

September 12, 2012

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Paul Ryan Pick Gives Obama a Chance to Change the Subject

Ryan's addition to the ticket will sharpen what is already the starkest contrast over domestic policy in any presidential race in a generation.

By: Peter Baker ,; TheNewYorkTimesNewsService

August 12, 2012

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US Sets New Sanctions Against Technology for Syria and Iran

President Barack Obama embraces Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, April 23, 2012. Obama announced Monday a plan to impose sanctions against foreign …

By: Peter Baker ,; TheNewYorkTimesNewsService

April 24, 2012

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Behind the Hunt for Osama bin Laden

Washington - For years, the agonizing search for Osama bin Laden kept coming up empty. Then last July, Pakistanis working for the Central Intelligence Agency drove up behind a …

By: Peter Baker ,; Helene Cooper ,; Mark Mazzetti ,; TheNewYorkTimesNewsService

May 3, 2011

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Bin Laden Is Dead, Obama Says

Washington - Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in …

By: Peter Baker ,; Helene Cooper ,; Mark Mazzetti ,; Truthout

May 2, 2011

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Bin Laden Dead, Says Obama

Tweet Washington — Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted …

By: Peter Baker &; Helene Cooper ,; TheNewYorkTimesNewsService

May 1, 2011

Colin Powell Favors Repeal of “Don

Gen. Colin L. Powell, who as the nation's top military officer in the 1990s opposed allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military, switched gears today …

By: Peter Baker ,; TheNewYorkTimes

February 3, 2010

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