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BAGHDAD — President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden intervened personally to save an agreement allowing Iraq's elections to proceed, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Monday, highlighting the stakes in the deal for an eventual American troop withdrawal.
I stopped watching two TV shows. One, "Family Guy," is replete with homophobia and blasphemy. Iconoclastic humor is one thing, but relentless ridicule of oneself -- and of Jesus Christ -- crosses the line.
Delaware Sen. Ted Kaufman sits down with the Dover Post to talk about current issues before Congress.
BAGHDAD — President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden intervened personally to save an agreement allowing Iraq's elections to proceed, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Monday, highlighting the stakes in the deal for an eventual American troop withdrawal.
BAGHDAD — President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden intervened personally to save an agreement allowing Iraq's elections to proceed, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Monday, highlighting the stakes in the deal for an eventual American troop withdrawal.
EXECUTING THE PLAN Kevin Surace schools Vice President Joe Biden on the finer points of eco-friendly products at the former Republic Windows plant.' The Secret Service wasn't thrilled about a last-minute addition to the group sharing the stage with the Vice President. But Kevin Surace was insistent. Upon arriving at his company's Chicago factory on that warm, wet morning in April, Surace had ...
Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry met with the president and Vice President Joe Biden in the Oval Office Monday afternoon. The meeting comes ahead of a string of congressional hearings this week at which the two will testify on Obama's plan to surge 30,000 troops into Afghanistan and to begin bringing them home in July 2011.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will meet with Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH'-jehp TY'-ihp UR'-doh-wahn), at the White House this morning.
The law, a test of Iraq's democratic ambitions, is passed just before a midnight deadline. Elections are expected to be held by the end of February. Iraqi lawmakers ended a governmental crisis Sunday by passing an election law just before a midnight deadline, after intense wrangling among the sides and, according to several participants, late phone calls from President Obama and Vice President ...
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi lawmakers ended a governmental crisis yesterday by passing an election law just before a midnight deadline, after intense wrangling among the sides and, according to several participants, late phone calls from U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Republicans and Democrats vow they have no objection to the possibility of a working Christmas to debate healthcare reform. Read more...
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, goes before Congress this week, and with him comes this question: Who’s really in charge here, the generals or President Barack Obama?
Senate Democrats emerged from a meeting with President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Sunday afternoon still mired in intraparty disagreements over health care overhaul legislation but committed to resolving their differences before Christmas Day.
The president instead gave Senate Democrats a "pep talk" on healthcare Sunday, telling them they stood to make history. Read more...
Senate Democrats in search of a health reform compromise Sunday zeroed in on a new alternative to a government-run insurance plan – signaling that the chances a final bill will include a pure public option are diminishing.
No, it wasn't really the Salahis . But as expected/hoped/dreaded , Saturday Night Live did kick off tonight's episode with a riff on NoVa's own fauxialite White House crashers - this time crashing a presidential press conference. The set-up: President Obama ( Fred Armisen , as usual) giving a...
