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George W. Bush "turned tail" from the Afghan war to invade Iraq, leaving President Barack Obama a worsening war he must now try to turn around, a senior Democratic White House ally said Tuesday.
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when a shoe-thrower attacked him at a news conference in Paris.
An Iraqi reporter imprisoned for throwing his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush found himself on the receiving end of a similar footwear attack in Paris on Tuesday.
In June 2002 George W. Bush delivered a speech at West Point military academy that came to define his presidency. With the Afghan war still in the backdrop, President Barack Obama Tuesday follows in his footsteps.
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when he nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news conference in Paris.
A protester who presented himself as an Iraqi journalist in exile hurled a shoe Tuesday at the colleague who one year ago found fame hurling his own footwear at then US president George W. Bush.
An Arabic-speaking man on Tuesday hurled a shoe at the Iraqi journalist who one year earlier had thrown shoes at former US president George W. Bush.
The ease with which a Washington area couple breezed uninvited into a White House dinner has exposed gaping holes in the security shield around President Barack Obama, experts warned Tuesday.
President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he was dispatching 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, accelerating a risky and expensive war buildup, even as he assured the nation that U.S. forces will begin coming home in July 2011. The first new Marines will join the fight by Christmas.
Just days before the start of the U.N. conference on climate change, the European Union has been largely sidelined as China and the United States seek to set the rules of the game.
An administration official says a senior Pentagon staffer did try to get a Virginia couple access to the White House state dinner, but later told them she couldn't get them in.
President Obama's nominee to head the U.S. Agency for International Development told a Senate committee today he would rebuild the agency's planning function, review its use of contractors and make foreign aid spending more effective.
Carie Lemack, whose mother was killed in the attacks, says only the terrorists should be on trial in New York City.
Tareq Salahi said Tuesday he and his wife "did not party-crash" a White House state dinner last week.
WASHINGTON — A wary, divided Congress raised serious questions Tuesday about President Barack Obama's new strategy for the war in Afghanistan, as well as its timetables and his plans to pay for the troop buildup.
President Barack Obama entered the White House promising a new era of openness in government, but when it comes to bad news, his administration often uses one of the oldest tricks in the public relations playbook: putting it out when the fewest people are likely to notice.
A special tax? War bonds like those that fueled the US military in World War II? A spending freeze? US lawmakers wondered aloud Tuesday how to pay for a new "surge" in Afghanistan.
For President Obama, December looms not as the season of holiday celebrations but as a month of critical developments likely to set the stage for the rest of his term.
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will announce tonight he is sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan and that American forces will begin withdrawing by July 2011, administration officials said.
Lewis H. Lapham, the former editor of Harper’s magazine, takes on a new market and business model with his eponymous journal.
Experts say Tareq and Michaele Salahi could face felony criminal charges if they lied to get into the White House for last month's state dinner
