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The suspect in the Fort Hood shootings gave a presentation in 2007 saying the military should allow Muslim soldiers to opt out of fighting Muslim enemies, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Today's headlines and history's judgments rarely are the same, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said to a standing room-only crowd on the Texas A&M campus Monday evening.That's what she told herself when things got tough in the White Ho ...
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have canceled February appearances in Los Angeles and New York because a promoter wrongly billed the events as debates.
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates will travel to Texas on Monday to meet with families of those killed in a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood military base, his press secretary said.
President Barack Obama and investigators pledged to learn the motive behind last week's mass shooting at a US military base now its chief suspect has awakened in hospital and was able to talk.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Nearly 200 key policy jobs in Barack Obama's administration remain vacant a year after he was elected president.
He has charmed millions, demonstrated his political heft and now as President Obama heads to Fort Hood for a memorial service for fallen soldiers, he must show he can comfort and console victims' families.
Where does China fit into the U.S. vision of world order? Like former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama seeks a China that plays by global rules, which would require both political and economic liberalization.
The health care bill has become an abortion bill -- and an immigration bill, and a tax bill, and a jobs bill, and a spending bill -- not to mention the most significant re-working of the nation's health care system in half a century.
Surge movie The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) on Monday premiered a film to showcase the success of President George W. Bush's "surge" of troops in Iraq at the National Press Club. The film, which can be seen at www.understandingthesurge.org, explains the events that fueled violence in Iraq in 2006, such as the Samarra mosque bombings. The bombings appeared to ...
A dispute over the relocation of a key US military base in Japan will not be a "dominant" or "essential" feature of President Barack Obama's visit to Tokyo, a senior US official said Monday.
The Senate gave President Barack Obama a major victory Monday in his efforts to remake the federal courts, confirming a judge who will tip the political balance on the once-conservative appeals court based in Richmond.
World Bank chief economist Justin Yifu Lin on Monday said China should not be forced to let its currency appreciate as a way to rebalance the world economy. That runs counter to the views of the Obama administration.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- “I can offer you a discount on the headbands,” said Tareq Abu Dayyeh, souvenir-store owner. “They’re just like the kind used by suicide bombers.”
The suspected shooter accused of killing 13 people at a US military base has regained consciousness and can talk, fueling hopes Monday he may soon reveal the motive behind the attack.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Every economist has his day. World War II was the era of John Maynard Keynes , who taught that a few great minds can improve an economy.
The George W. Bush administration was the target of much criticism from human rights groups for, among other things, its policy of extraordinary rendition, in which detainees have been transferred for interrogation in other countries that are known for their use of torture.
The FBI knew for nearly a year before his murderous Fort Hood rampage that psycho Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had repeatedly contacted al Qaeda -- but the blundering agency last night admitted it dismissed the lead. The clueless G-men said that at...
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Funding for more troops in Afghanistan could be inserted into spending bills pending in Congress.
The first Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1919, marked the one-year anniversary of the end of World War I, what many proclaimed, with an optimism that turned out to be wildly misplaced, “the war to end all wars.” It became a U.S. national holiday in 1938 and in 1954 was renamed Veterans Day to honor all veterans. There are currently 23.2 million veterans, down from a peak of 28.6 million in 1980 ...
