Surveillance cameras at Vice President Biden’s private Delaware residence failed to capture images of the gunman who fired shots near the house on Saturday night, leaving authorities with no leads…
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama used his first State of the Union address after once again ramping up U.S. military involvement in the Middle East to describe his foreign policy…
WASHINGTON — Likely Republican 2016 presidential candidates on Tuesday seemed to agree that President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address was off base. What they disagreed on was why….
WASHINGTON — More than anything, President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address signaled a fresh battle for the hearts and minds of America’s beleaguered middle class — and Republicans…
WASHINGTON — Earlier Tuesday, it appeared the GOP’s Spanish-language rebuttal to the State of the Union would be exactly the same as the English-language one, just delivered by a Latino…
Read the entire CNN/ORC poll here – State of the Union viewers tend to be friendly toward the president delivering the speech, but this group also wants to see compromise….
WASHINGTON — House and Senate Republicans are rejecting President Barack Obama’s suggestion to reform tax code that allows heirs to inherit extreme amounts of wealth largely tax-free. “Let’s close the…
WASHINGTON — One year ago, during the 2014 State of the Union, undocumented immigrant and activist Cristian Avila sat in the House of Representatives gallery as a guest of first…
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night more a lofty campaign style rallying call than a traditional plodding policy lectureObama declared he had delivered on what voters first…
WASHINGTON — Americans who watched President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address largely approved, giving him better marks than they did for last year’s speech, according to instant polling…
House Speaker John Boehner echoed many of his Republican colleagues with a statement that decried the address as more of the same from a President that’s never been interested in…
Obama: ‘Tonight, we turn the page’ – “I’ve seen something like gay marriage go from a wedge issue used to drive us apart to a story of freedom across our…
“A few moments ago, we heard the President lay out his vision for the year to come. Even if we may not always agree, it’s important to hear different points…
For the first time, the White House is making the full text of the speech available to citizens around the country online. On Medium, you can follow along with the…
The official, a high-ranking member of Cuba’s foreign ministry, spoke to CNN and a handful of other media on condition of anonymity. A U.S. delegation arriving in Havana on Wednesday…
In 2010, Roberts told students at the University of Alabama that while he thought “anybody” can criticize the Supreme Court, the backdrop of the State of the Union might not…
The freshman senator from Iowa will pledge to take the country on a new course that eschews Washington’s “stale mindset” and will call on Obama to work with her party…
The first Twitter-produced selfie featured Anthony Mendez, who overcame homelessness to go to college, and Malik Bryant, a 13 year-old from Chicago. Both will be White House guests to the…
Clinton prepares for 2016 with staffing picks, meetings It’s being billed as an “opportunity to strengthen economic and cultural ties between the United Kingdom and New Jersey while pursuing real…
“One guy had the metal detector, and if anything got a hit we’d check it out,” Gibson said. “We wanted to make sure the rest of the troops moving through…
Rather it’s in the boxes and gallerieswhere the White House and lawmakers seat their invited gueststhat this year reflect the vast differences in opinion on Obama’s new policy toward the…
State of the Union: Obama’s Robin Hood turn “We in no way want to disrupt the State of the Union. We appreciate the fact that all members of Congress will…
New York Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel arrived at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday morningmore than twelve hours before President Barack Obama is scheduled to enter the chamberand reserved what has become…
American Crossroads will also be heavily engaged in the GOP presidential primary fight, however, and Republicans will have 24 seats to defend in 2016 — far more than the 10 Democrats…
As he entered a caucus lunch, Reid told reporters he is doing “fine” and hopes to regain full vision in his seriously injured eye, which he described as “doing better.”…
In Sanaa on Tuesday, the presidential palace was overrun by Shiite Houthi rebels, a situation the country’s minister of information described as the “completion of a coup.” That’s a problem…
“She has got a lot of depth in policy, but she is looking for new ideas,” the source said. “She is also being very thorough about the path to the…
The letter, subsequently forwarded to reporters by the State Department, demonstrates how reaction to the policy change is doesn’t necessarily cut along political lines. Its signatories include George Schultz, who…
If an evacuation is ordered, the first option would be to have embassy personnel drive to the commercial airport in Sanaa and fly out, the official said. But in the…
She didn’t mention Moore by name, but she was clearly reacting to Moore’s controversial tweet, saying “We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren’t…