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Dick Cheney has ratcheted up his criticism of President Obama again, calling the decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in New York a "huge mistake.".
Washington (AFP) Dec 8, 2009 - The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the "Beast of Kandahar," a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy.
Kabul (AFP) Dec 8, 2009 - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday to thrash out Washington's sweeping new strategy to send 30,000 extra troops to fight the Taliban.
Seoul (AFP) Dec 8, 2009 - A US envoy arrived in North Korea Tuesday to try to coax it back to nuclear disarmament negotiations, in what will be the first high-level dialogue between the Obama administration and the communist state.
n McChrystal tells Congress that change in strategy will work
In the week since President Obama's carefully worded speech to the nation on Afghanistan , it has become increasingly difficult to nail down the true meaning of the drawdown of troops that the President announced would begin in July 2011.
@BR Ednote:EDITOR’S NOTE: An occasional look at assertions by government officials and how well they adhere to the facts.
The general in charge of the war in Afghanistan says capturing Osama bin Laden is the ultimate key to defeating the al Qaeda terror network. General Stanley McChrystal told Congress on Tuesday that bin Laden is an "iconic figure" whose very survival eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks serves as a recruiting tool for al Qaeda. U.S. intelligence officials believe bin Laden is in hiding in ...
It was a war the president did not want to fight. In the end, he had no choice. He ordered 40,000 additional troops into the fray.
WASHINGTON - In President Barack Obama's hands, the $700 billion financial rescue fund offers a bit ...
Franklin Roosevelt, confronted with the worst economic crisis in the nation's history, wrote the book on government jobs programs. Since FDR, presidents have been less ambitious because the economic challenges they faced...
WASHINGTON (AP) - In President Barack Obama's hands, the $700 billion financial rescue fund offers a bit of bookkeeping magic: an opportunity to pay down the deficit while also spending more - thereby adding to it. Under law, any paybacks to the bailout known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program must be used to reduce the deficit. But in an economic speech on Tuesday, the president sought to ...
WASHINGTON - After days of secret talks, Senate Democrats tentatively agreed Tuesday night to drop a government-run insurance option from sweeping health care legislation, several officials said, a concession to party moderates whose votes are critical to passage of President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
WASHINGTON - Questioned by skeptical lawmakers, the U.S. general running the war in Afghanistan said Tuesday he did not get as many troops as he wanted and must work under a schedule he did not recommend, but he insisted the Obama administration's revamped strategy is the best way to win.
BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of coordinated attacks struck Baghdad today, including three car bombs that blew up near government sites. At least 94 were killed and 120 wounded in the worst wave of violence in the capital in more than a month, authorities said.
A proposed $3.4 billion settlement would end a complicated and bitter class-action lawsuit that alleges sloppy bookkeeping by the federal government has robbed Native Americans of more than a century's worth of revenue from uses of their land.
What's Your Reaction? NEW YORK — Former Vice President Dick Cheney says trying suspected Sept. 11 terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (HAH'-leed shayk moh-HAH'-med) in New York City will make him "as important or more important than Osama bin Laden."
The Obama administration is trying to get the "emergency" out of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
If we prepare for climate change by building a clean-power economy, but climate change turns out to be a hoax, what would be the result? We would be stronger, more innovative and more energy independent.
KABUL — After meeting Tuesday with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said it may be five years before his army is ready to take on insurgents — a blunt warning that the planned exit strategy for U.S. troops from Afghanistan 18 months from now could grind slowly through 2014.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Americans have grown gloomier about both the economy and the nation’s direction over the past three months even as the U.S. shows signs of moving from recession to recovery.
