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President Obama has hosted world leaders from Afghanistan, Germany and nearly two dozen other spots around the globe since he took office. But none has been received with the fanfare that will be accorded to the prime minister of India on Tuesday.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates attends a conference but, with the Obama administration wrestling over its Afghan strategy, isn't in a position to push Canada to reconsider a troop withdrawal plan. As the Obama administration wrestles over its new Afghanistan strategy, the domestic debate is having far-reaching implications for the United States' ties with its allies in the war.
The United States must tighten control of Afghan aid contracts as a first step toward stemming rampant corruption, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.
C notes The famous row house on C Street Southeast where South Carolina’s disgraced governor, Mark Sanford, sought counseling after his affair — as did Sen. John Ensign of Nevada after his affair — has begun paying D.C. real estate taxes.
Organizers of the Bakersfield Business Conference announce that 2008 Republican Primary Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and Legendary Entertainer Ronnie Milsap will address the Business Conference on October 9, 2010.
The Republicans have finally gone off the deep end. They are so crazed over President Obama's election, they're beside themselves with vehemence.
It is not too late for President Barack Obama to follow the example of Harry Truman, who fired the famous Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1951 for insubordination. Then, as now, the stakes were high. Then it was Korea; now it is Afghanistan.
The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the same from the Afghan government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.
A relationship Obama should nurture.
The soft bigotry of high expectations.
Troubled Air Force tanker, construction cash headed to Panhandle, and plane tickets home for the holidays.
Associated Press Writer CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida banking regulators on Friday shut down Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida, marking the 124th U.S. bank to succumb this year to the struggling economy and rising loan defaults.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska’s governing board has voted down a proposal to restrict the school’s rules governing embryonic stem-cell research beyond what the federal government allows. The eight-member Board of Regents voted 4-4 Friday, defeating the resolution that would have restricted stem cell experiments to cell lines approved under President George W. Bush.
The small Albanian town of Fushe-Kruje plans to erect a statue of former U.S. President George W. Bush to commemorate his June 2007 visit, when he was feted as a hero in an outpouring of love for America.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amputations. Combat stress. Divorce. Suicide. For troubled service members, military therapists are at their sides.
LAURINBURG - Everything about the 1939 Thomas Walton Manor sparkles, glitters and shines. And that's even before they've completed all the holiday decorating planned for the historic bed-and-breakfast on West Church Street.
EDITOR’S NOTE — An occasional look at assertions by government officials and how well they adhere to the facts.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The typical family would be spared higher taxes from the House Democratic plan to overhaul health care, and their low-income neighbors could come out ahead.
DAN BILEFSKY The investigation of an underground group known as Ergenekon has strained ties between a secular elite and a growing population of observant Muslims.
For the third time in 16 years the federal government is forming a blue-ribbon panel to try to save the USA's perpetually troubled airline industry, which has racked up $58.5 billion in losses and shed 158,000 jobs this decade.
