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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.
WASHINGTON — The head of the Secret Service accepted full responsibility Wednesday for last week's security breach at President Barack Obama's first state dinner, but insisted that the president and Vice President Joe Biden were never in danger from a party-crashing couple who shook hands and posed for pictures with them.
Senator Orrin Hatch recently criticized my suggestion that Senate Republicans are preventing President Barack Obama from appointing federal judges and urged me "and other apologists [to get our] facts straight, tell the whole story, and realize that our nation's leaders are responsible for their choices and priorities."
Vice President Joe Biden says he assumed they were invited guests. He's talking about Tareq and Michaele Salahi, who posed for pictures with Biden and others at last week's state dinner for the prime minister of India. It turned out they were there without an invitation.
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?
What's Your Reaction? Vice President Joseph Biden will be appearing on all three network morning shows Wednesday to discuss the Obama administration's new Afghanistan policy, confirms a source who helps handle television bookings.
The president instead gave Senate Democrats a "pep talk" on healthcare Sunday, telling them they stood to make history. Read more...
Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, are continuing a family tradition of spending Thanksgiving with family on Nantucket. The family started the tradition of spending the holiday on the island more than three decades ago, but this will be the former Delaware senator's first Thanksgiving as vice president there.
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sen. Ted Kaufman (D., Del.) will hold a hearing next week to examine the role of financial fraud in the current economic crisis, asking representatives from the Attorney General's office, Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Bureau of Investigation to discuss the issue.
The head of the Secret Service accepted full responsibility Thursday for last week's security breach at President Obama's first state dinner, but he said that the president and Vice President Joe Biden were never in danger from a party-crashing couple who shook hands and posed for pictures with them.
President Obama Today Kicks Off his Economic Tour of the Country
White House says all president's advisers contributed to new Afghan plan, but troop surge seems closer to Gen. McChrystal's suggestion than vice president's | VIDEO • Hoyer Slams Cheney for Obama Criticism
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.
Vice President Says Couple "Acted Like They Knew Everybody In Room"
Vice President Joe Biden says the Obama administration's new surge-and-exit troop strategy in Afghanistan serves notice on the Karzai government that "you now have to step up to the ball." ASSOCIATED PRESS INTERACTIVE A chronology of the war in Afghanistan ASSOCIATED PRESS VIDEO The world reacts to Obama's plan READ OBAMA'S SPEECH Provided by the White House
Vice President Says Timetable for American Withdrawal "More Palatable" to Public, Sends Message to Karzai Government
