April D. Ryan

This week, the First Couple is in Denmark promoting Chicago and its positives to lure the 2016 Summer Olympic Games there.  Yet, concerns mount over youth crime in the city following the beating death of an Honor Student killed when he walked into a gang fight while on his way home from school.  Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs says, President Obama is aware of the tragedy and plans to speak on issues of youth violence soon.

NATO leader agrees war strategy should be reviewed

WASHINGTON - As the White House began Tuesday to debate in earnest the increasingly unpopular Afghanistan war, NATO’s secretary-general said President Barack Obama is right to delay troop decisions until a possibly revamped approach is devised.
“The first thing is not numbers,” Anders Fogh Rasmussen, chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, told reporters as he and Obama wrapped up their Oval Office meeting.
Still, Fogh Rasmussen said U.S. and allied troops will remain in Afghanistan “as long as it takes.”