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Scattered conservatives want former Vice President Dick Cheney to do more than beat President Obama in the press. They want him to beat him in the 2012 election.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the United States has not had any reliable intelligence on the whereabouts of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden for "years."
To hear the talk at the White House jobs summit, President Barack Obama has dozens of job-creating ideas to pick from when he sketches out his plan in a speech Tuesday.
Policy makers could balance the budget by taxing indirectly harmful activities like financial speculation, as we do with sulfur dioxide emissions.
The switchboards and e-mail inboxes of members of Congress are not seeing much of a surge from President Barack Obama's plan to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan.
ELDERS Village leaders complained about Marine patrols after Americans retook control from the Taliban in southern Helmand last July.
Hundreds of protestors rallied Saturday against the plan to give the alleged mastermind of 9/11 and four others a civilian trial in New York City.
For 20 years, as this crowded planet grew warmer, nations have gathered annually to try to do something about it. History now brings them to this chilly northern capital, and to a crossroads.
The President has allowed his dealings with Central and South America to be hijacked by congressional conservatives and old-fashioned cold warriors
With all eyes on US efforts to combat climate change at next week's UN summit in Copenhagen, one Kansas town is going green in a big way -- and setting an example for American communities.
George W. Bush and Tony Blair's conviction that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a threat blinded them to the lack of evidence justifying a war to depose him, an ex-UN weapons inspector said Saturday.
Bill White of Dallas gave Democrats a faint hope for the first time in 15 years that they might be able to take back the governor’s mansion.
Support for President Obama has dropped below 50 percent for the first time in a CNN poll despite high marks for his recently announced Afghanistan policy.
Hutchison a disappointment
1750 — Before Industrial Revolution, atmosphere holds 280 parts per million of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2).
Less than a week before he died, McGeorge Bundy, the brilliant Harvard dean who was an architect of John F.
Americans can be excused for thinking that terrorism is largely behind them. Eight-plus years after the 9/11 attacks, Al Qaeda has yet to strike the United States again. Airport screening seems routine and more relaxed, and anxieties over employment, mortgages, and health care have supplanted worries about anthrax and suicide bombers.
President Obama is heading into his new strategy with warnings that many of the conditions that made the Iraq surge work do not exist in Afghanistan, but some similarities do exist.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty can't see Russia from his house.
President Obama is very smart about many things. He was a brilliant scholar at Harvard. But he apparently hasn't learned history.President Lyndon Baines Johnson also was very good at many things. But he, too, lacked an understanding of history.Johnson inherited the Vietnam War. He didn't know how to get out. So he just gave generals the more troops they always want. Vietnam became his albatross ...