AP sources: Gates signs troop surge orders
AP - Fri Dec 4, 5:48 pm ETOfficials say Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signed the first orders deploying troops to Afghanistan under President Barack Obama's new surge strategy.
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Officials say Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signed the first orders deploying troops to Afghanistan under President Barack Obama's new surge strategy.
The White House is expanding the program, paralleling the decision to send more troops to Afghanistan.
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Gov. Tim Pawlenty can't see Russia from his house. Neither could former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, of course, but her suggestion that Russia's proximity to her home state made for foreign policy chops was spoofed endlessly during the 2008 campaign.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a strong signal Thursday that he has full hands-on control of his country.
President Hamid Karzai tells The Associated Press that setting a 2011 date for U.S. withdrawal will push Afghans to take control of their own destiny.
The United States and Russia failed to reach agreement on temporary nuclear verification measures before the expiration of a major arms control treaty but pledged to continue working "in the spirit" of the 1991 pact. Negotiators worked intensively for weeks to try to complete a legally binding "bridging mechanism," which would be in force until the two countries finalize and ratify a follow-on ...
Continuing obstacles provoke skepticism from Congress about whether the U.S. military can train the Afghans quickly and effectively enough to begin to replace American forces by Obama's proposed exit start date of July 2011.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has delayed moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for the second time since taking office, Israeli media said.
House Democrats passed a freeze of the estate tax Thursday, making permanent the 45 percent rate on inheritances of more than $3.5 million and undoing part of President George W. Bush's cuts that would have temporarily eliminated the tax next year. The measure would prevent the estate tax from expiring Dec. 31 and returning in 2011 at a 55 percent rate, a mechanism of the Bush tax cuts that ...
President Barack Obama is delaying moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to Brussels Friday to nail down European backing for a troop surge in Afghanistan that commanders say should turn the tide of the war by mid-2010.
The United States government has only spent 2 percent of the more than $1 billion it has pledged to help Mexico fight drug traffickers, according to a government study released Thursday.
Facing the prospect of more American deaths in Afghanistan as the war escalates, lawmakers lashed out at neighboring Pakistan on Thursday as an unreliable ally that could spare the U.S. its bruising fight with al-Qaida if it wanted.
White House makes clear it's standing by the former Republican Desiree Rogers described herself as "giddy with excitement" when she was picked as social secretary for the new Obama White House.
Highly anticipated immigration negotiations between Cuba and the United States in Havana have been pushed back from this month to February at the communist island's request because of scheduling concerns, a State Department official said Friday.
NBC Universal deal will give Comcast effective control of a TV network, other cable channels and a movie studio.
WASHINGTON - Making a case for his confirmation to a second term as the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke on Thursday defended unpopular actions he has taken that helped stem a spreading global financial crisis, and offered a mea culpa for the Fed's failure to see the storm coming.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — The campaign manager for longtime U.S. Rep. Chris Shays pleaded not guilty Friday to charges...
Officials say Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signed the first orders deploying troops to Afghanistan under President Barack Obama's new surge strategy.
Michael Chertoff headed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in its early years, from 2005 to 2009. As the third largest cabinet branch, with 218,000 employees, DHS controls immigration, borders, and even protects the president. Chertoff talked recently with NEWSWEEK's Jerry Guo about his tenure and new dangers facing the country. Excerpts: