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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that U.S. diplomacy has moved China closer to the American view that Iran’s continuing refusal to come clean on its nuclear program demands tough new U.N. sanctions.
This June 10, 2006 photo shows a 1996 Camry driven by Koua Fong Lee that crashed into the back of an Oldsmobile Ciera in St.
The Obama administration will work with Congress in developing a plan for sending astronauts to Mars and will release it in the a oecoming months,a the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today.
Among the many minor calamities of getting older is losing touch with one’s native tongue.
Last year may go down as the best year yet for female CEOs of large companies, but those corporate chiefs want to make it clear their success has nothing to do with chromosomes.
In his weekly address, President Barack Obama discussed his solemn responsibility to protect the nation and the steps the administration has taken to that end.
He called in his closest operatives from The Squid - ” his ace media strategist, David Axelrod and his ace opportunist, Rahm Emanuel.
The United States has no long-term stake in Afghanistan and its primary aim is to defeat al Qa’eda there, the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton ,said on Sunday.
A Jordanian citizen died after being beaten by police, the second time this week, a police spokesman said Sunday, casting a rare spotlight on the nation’s U.S.-trained security forces, that may also have worked as proxy jailers for the CIA.
Comment about “Frustrated Abbas offers to quit” Phone Name Comment 0 Frustrated Abbas offers to quit Slams Hamas and Israel Reuters Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday he did not wish to run for re-election in January, voicing disappointment at Washington for “favouring” Israel in arguments over …
Democrats narrowly held two seats on the Haddon Heights Council. Democrats Stephen Berryhill and David McCollum won the majority of the votes in Tuesday’s election.
Cuba’s Fidel Castro is the latest world leader to opine on the controversial award of the Nobel peace prize to President Barack Obama.
Rep. Barney Frank, an openly gay member of Congress, says he’d rather see gay rights supporters lobbying their elected officials than marching in Washington this weekend, calling the demonstration “a waste of time at best.” Frank said in an interview with The Associated Press that he considers such demonstrations to be “an emotional release” that …
After cleaning up in the Nobel science prizes, the United States on Friday scored another coup: the peace prize for a president less than nine months in office.
First, depose a president. Second, hire a lobbyist. In the months since soldiers ousted the Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, the de facto government and its supporters have resisted demands from the United States that he be restored to power.
Barack Obama has reached the moment of truth for answering the persistent question about his core beliefs and political priorities.
When singer Natalie Cole was preparing a new album a year ago, she decided the time again was right to look to her past for inspiration that was, quite literally, ”Unforgettable.” Not only were songs from the era of her famous father, Nat King Cole — the mid-1940s through the early 1960s — dear to her heart, but they also were responsible for …
Cio-Cio-San holds the ceremonial dagger tenderly against her throat, its blade gleaming in the blood-red light.
Police say the former fiance of a cast member from ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’ has died after a fight outside an Atlanta strip club.
Cambodia has asked the United States to cancel debts during the Lon Non government which is accounted around US$300 million.
President Barack Obama is confronting a split among his closest advisers on Afghanistan, reflecting divisions in his own party over whether to send in thousands more U.S. troops and complicating his efforts to adopt a war policy he can sell to a public grown weary of the 8-year-old conflict.
Federal prosecutors have announced a settlement with a Los Angeles-based bank that was sued along with two auto dealerships for allegedly charging non-Asian customers higher interest rates on car loans.
Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, has admitted Britain is unable to commit more military personnel to Afghanistan unless it provides enough kit and equipment.
In this July 1, 2009 file photo, U.S Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, left, speaks at the unveiling of an American-made prototype streetcar in Portland, Ore.
By unanimously adopting a milestone resolution, the UN Security Council demanded on Wednesday the end of sexual violence in armed conflict, a scourge that has plagued many conflict-stricken regions around the world.
House Republicans say it’s payback time for the recent reprimand of one of their own for heckling President Barack Obama.
The Obama administration on Wednesday urged California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to call state lawmakers into a special session to deal with the state’s water crisis.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the State Department are being sued by a diplomat who claims she was discriminated against because of her age.
The Obama administration on Friday sharply criticized a U.N. report alleging Israeli war crimes in its Gaza war earlier this year, ending nearly a week of muted reaction to findings already rejected by Israel.
The Federal Reserve plans new rules on bank pay to curb excessive risk-taking, which is blamed for sparking the global financial crisis and has triggered international demands for action.
US securities regulators have proposed a ban on flash orders, which give some traders a split-second advantage in buying and selling stocks.
Mwai Kibaki must be a worried man. Rumblings from Washington indicate that some Americans hope the president of Kenya will soon face a challenge to his seven-year rule - from incumbent US president Barack Obama.
Crowds that included supporters of Iran’s opposition movement gathered in Tehran Friday to march in the country’s annual pro-Palestinian parade, witnesses said.
Demonstrators burn British and American flags to protest against Israel’s occupation of Palestine on the occasion of Quds Day in Tehran yesterday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad raised the stakes against Israel yesterday and called the Holocaust a lie, just as world powers try to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political …
US Ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and discussed the agenda for his state visit to Washington in November, the first by a foreign leader during the Obama administration.
Everybody’s racist, it seems. Republican Rep. Joe Wilson? Racist, because he shouted “You lie!” at the first black president.
The actor talks about playing a whistle-blower in his new movie. Whether uncovering fraud in corporate America , as Damon’s character does in the new film, or in government, as former FBI agent Coleen Rowley tried to do in the weeks before Sept.
President Barack Obama is sitting down for interviews with five television networks this afternoon, a highly unusual schedule even for a president who regularly uses the media to get his message across.
The Supreme Court appears poised to wipe away limits on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions in time for next year’s congressional elections in a case that began as a dispute over a movie about Hillary Rodham Clinton.
U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have taken a consistent line on a health care overhaul: It’s vital, but they cannot support proposals that go too far in covering abortion and not far enough in protecting health workers who don’t want to provide that procedure.
The Senate’s chief Democratic negotiator on a health care bill is indicating it’s time to act and has told his colleagues he won’t wait much longer for a Republican compromise.
Published: Saturday, September 5, 2009 at 5:03 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, September 5, 2009 at 5:03 p.m. AUGUSTA, Maine - While working for a marketing firm, Michael Townsend coined the signature phrase that appears on highway signs, T-shirts and tourism promos in these parts: “Maine - the Way Life Should Be.” “Well, things aren’t the way life …
Authorities say a boater was killed when struck by lightning near Soldier Key in Biscayne National Park.
