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President Barack Obama will accept the world's best-known peace prize by explaining what it means to wage war, an incongruity that has weighed on him and that he will take on directly when he receives the Nobel Peace Prize, White House officials say.
A U.S.-built, unmanned mini-submarine on an ocean research mission has successfully crossed the North Atlantic by gliding on underwater currents, U.S. officials said Wednesday in Spain, where they came to retrieve it.
Since the Iranian nuclear crisis has hit the headlines up to the present time, some Iranian politicians, experts, analysts, and journalists supporting Iran's positions have frequently recommended that Iran should quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty or do it if there were continued and heightened pressure from the United States and the European Union, the International Atomic Energy Agency, or the ...
President Barack Obama nominated Larry Persily, a former aide to ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, on Wednesday to be federal coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, the White House said.
The chance to win the late Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat is uniquely attractive to the GOP.
WASHINGTON -- After agreeing tentatively to jettison a key liberal priority -- a full-blown government-run insurance option -- Senate Democrats woke up Wednesday to find that the fragile coalition backing President Barack Obama's health care bill is still together.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling’s “populist and discriminatory” tax on banker’s bonuses risks driving business away from London, financiers in the U.K. capital said.
The Obama administration says it will spend more than $3 billion to settle a long-running lawsuit over royalties owed to American Indians for not only oil, but gas, grazing and other leases that date back more than a century.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates visited U.S. commanders in Afghanistan on Wednesday, promising that President Barack Obama's surge of extra forces would give them what they need for success against the Taliban.
WASHINGTON (AP) - After agreeing tentatively to jettison a key liberal priority - a full-blown government-run insurance option - Senate Democrats woke up Wednesday to find that the fragile coalition backing President Barack Obama's health care bill is still together. A leading liberal - former Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean - and a much-courted moderate - Connecticut independent Sen.
Madrid - Concern was mounting in Spain on Wednesday over a hunger strike drama at a Canary Islands airport where the iron will of an increasingly frail woman was defying Spain and Morocco. Doctors said award-winning Western Sahara activist Aminatou H...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is spending almost $600 million to build community health centers and to make medical records easier to find.
The tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu was rebuffed Wednesday in its demand for strong action to curb global warming, and a top U.S. official said the Obama administration's new moves to cut greenhouse gases were not designed to bypass recalcitrant lawmakers in Congress.
By the time lawmakers get done with it, the “public option" in the White House-backed health-care overhaul may be unrecognizable compared to where it began.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is meeting with a bipartisan delegation from Congress, following up on his call for additional government action to improve the nation's employment numbers.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Progress against the insurgency in Afghanistan probably will be slower than during the buildup of U.S. forces in Iraq two years ago, and the war will be "harder before it gets easier," a top U.S. general said Wednesday.
