Obama’s press secretary says president is ‘disappointed’ Chicago missed getting 2016 Olympics

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Barack Obama is “disappointed” Chicago missed getting the 20016 Olympic Games but doesn’t regret putting so much on the line to argue for it, his chief spokesman said Friday.

Chicago goes down in stunning defeat, losing in first round of IOC voting

COPENHAGEN — Chicago was expected to be one of the last two cities in the race. Instead, it was the first to go.

Stunned silence, sadness in Chicago as 2016 Olympics bid goes elsewhere

CHICAGO — So much for Da Games.

Thousands gathered in Chicago stand in stunned silence after Olympics bid goes elsewhere

CHICAGO — Thousands of people stood in bewildered silence in downtown Chicago on Friday after the International Olympic Committee surprised everyone by dumping the city from the race for 2016 Summer Olympics in the first round of voting.

Obamas make personal appeal for Chicago’s Olympics bid, but are denied sucess in the voting

COPENHAGEN — Chicago’s early exit from finalist balloting for the 2016 Olympics was a personal setback for President Barack Obama and a painful defeat for America’s most prominent Midwestern city.

American soldier in Afghanistan killed in grenade attack; bomb kills British airman

KABUL — A suicide bomber struck a U.S. convoy in southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing two American soldiers, and military officials announced the deaths of two other international troopers — one American and one Briton — the day before.

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