One Republican criticism of President Barack Obama’s strategy to defeat the Islamic State has been that the president has hampered his efforts by ruling out the use of U.S. ground…
The leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine aim to hold a summit in Minsk this week as they try to stem fighting in eastern Ukraine, officials said Sunday. The…
BUENOS AIRES — The president did it. No, it was the Argentine spymaster plotting against her. Maybe it really was a suicide, the tragic fall of a man whose case…
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden will visit the early caucus state of Iowa next week, stirring speculation once again about the possibility of a presidential run in 2016. –…
Merkel and French President Francois Hollande met with the Russian President in Moscow on Friday. On Saturday, at the annual Munich Security Conference, she said it is uncertain whether their…
WASHINGTON — President Obama personally added a reference to the Crusades in his speech this week at the National Prayer Breakfast, aides said, hoping to add context and nuance to…
One of the strangest right-wing conspiracies is that Barack Obama is not really a Christian. It’s strange because the President has missed few opportunities to inject Christianity into his rhetoricto…
Brooke dedicated his life to serving his country. After graduating from Dunbar High School and Howard University in his native Washington, D.C., he shipped off to Italy, where he earned…
Vice President Joe Biden is expected to miss Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial address to a joint meeting of Congress because of foreign travel, Biden’s office said Friday. The…
Biden’s absence won’t go unnoticed during Netanyahu’s visit to a joint meeting of Congress, during which the Vice President, the Senate’s president pro tempore, normally sits alongside the Speaker of…
That appeared to be Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s response on Friday to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli premier, whose plans for a speech to a joint meeting of Congress…
“Violent extremism and an evolving terrorist threat raise a persistent risk of attacks on America and our allies,” Obama writes in the report’s introduction. “Escalating challenges to cybersecurity, aggression by…
Things have gotten worse in Ukraine and the U.S. is considering providing assistance to the military. News broke that ISIS had burned a Jordanian pilot alive, renewing questions about President…
President Barack Obama became the first black president 25 years ago today — of the Harvard Law Review, that is. – Read the full profile here.
SANA, Yemen — The Houthi rebels who effectively forced Yemen’s president and cabinet to step down last month announced on Friday that they intended to dissolve Parliament and take control…
“Today’s remarks by the President were inappropriate and his choice of venue was insulting to every person of faith at a time when Christians are being crucified, beheaded, and persecuted…
President Barack Obama met with 13-year-old student Vidal Chastanet and his principal, Nadia Lopez, at the White House on Thursday. Chastanet, who attends Mott Hall Bridges Academy in the Browsnville…
Pro-Russia rebels and the Ukrainian authorities agreed Friday on a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians from the epicenter of fighting in eastern Ukraine as German and French leaders prepared to…
KIEV, Ukraine — As the leaders of Germany and France prepared to travel to Moscow on Friday to press President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on a deal to end…
That 70% gap in approval from the parties ties for the fifth-most polarized year for a president in the past 60. – Obama’s most polarized year was his fourth, when…
BEIJING — The Chinese state-run media on Friday lambasted President Obama after he publicly, and warmly, greeted the Dalai Lama during a prayer breakfast in Washington, calling it a shortsighted…
WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to release his second, and final, national security strategy on Friday, laying out a blueprint for robust American leadership for his remaining time in office while…
By Sarah Marsh and Richard Lough BUENOS AIRES, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Argentine investigators failed on Thursday to track down a former spymaster wanted for questioning over the death of…
In his comments at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Obama condemned violence in the name of religion and pointed to religious groups other than the Islamic State that…
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner drew fierce criticism this week for a tweet mocking the Chinese accent. The president of the South American nation swapped the letters “R” and…
Zimbabwe’s government said President Robert Mugabe, 90, did not fall down the steps from a podium, saying that he “managed to break the fall.” Zimbabwe Information Minister Jonathan Moyo Thursday…
It’s officialworld football’s controversial leader Sepp Blatter is set to enter the enemy’s lair just weeks after accusing UEFA of plotting to depose him. The FIFA president is prepared to…
KIEV, Ukraine — With the White House weighing whether to send arms to Ukraine, Western nations intensified efforts Thursday to bring an end to the fighting. Angela Merkel, the German…
The potential 2016 candidates are working to prove that Democrats aren’t the only ones sensitive to the nation’s growing economic inequality. The GOP is also trying to move past serious…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday continued to walk back his comments that parents should be allowed to choose whether to vaccinate their children, saying he holds the same position…