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I listened to Barack Obama's speech about Afghanistan and I played a little mind game with myself. "Will he mention the word 'opium'?" I bet $5 that he wouldn't, and my evil twin took the bet. At the end of the 35 minutes, I was triumphant. I transferred the...
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Prague is ready to host a summit between President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev next week if asked, Czech Foreign Ministry spokesman Milan Repka said.
Europe's main stock markets fell on Friday following overnight losses on Wall Street and ahead of key US jobs data.
Three suicide bombers fired on worshipers then blew themselves up at a mosque near Pakistan's military headquarters after Friday prayers, killing 40 people, including many army officials, police said.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The Czech Republic is ready to host a summit between President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev if Prague “is asked,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Milan Repka said today in a phone interview.
America's eight-year effort to build a functional Afghan security force has been a study in slow motion, raising doubts about President Barack Obama's new plan to quickly get the nation's army and police in shape so U.S. forces can begin to leave in 18 months.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged NATO and its partners in Afghanistan to rally behind a new strategy to combat the insurgency and "finish it together".
Lynn Giese calls Sarah Palin the best thing that's happened to the U.S. in a long time, and the 57-year-old housewife says she'd work tirelessly for the former Alaska governor were she to run for president in 2012.
The U.S. aerospace industry urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to press for changes to an international pact to spur the multibillion-dollar market for remotely piloted aircraft.
On the Senate floor, Democrats are debating Republicans on health care. Behind the scenes, they're debating each other.
The economy is getting closer to generating jobs for the first time in two years, but it probably won't be enough to stop the unemployment rate from rising.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is giving different explanations of its July 2011 deadline for the start of an Afghanistan troop withdrawal, assuring foreign officials that it applies only to the 30,000 to 35,000 additional U.S. troops that President Barack Obama is sending next year, but suggesting to Congress that it covers all U.S. forces.
Russia and the United States are close to a deal to cut vast arsenals of nuclear weapons, Russia said on Friday, as the world's two biggest atomic powers rush to replace a Cold War treaty that expires at midnight.
President Barack Obama urged corporate America on Thursday to help tackle the nation's highest unemployment in 26 years but also hinted at federal tax credits and aid to states to ease jobless woes.
When most people think of nuclear fuel, uranium and plutonium come to mind. Should a different fuel — something called thorium — be used in our nuclear reactors instead?
WASHINGTON — With the jobless rate rising and his approval ratings sinking, President Barack Obama hosted academics and leaders of business and labor at a White House jobs summit Thursday, seeking advice on how to boost employment.
