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Sen. John McCain says President Barack Obama's announcement that U.S. troops will begin to leave Afghanistan in July 2011 sends the wrong message to the Taliban and has confused countries in the region.
Sarah Palin's book exposes tensions between the former Republican vice presidential candidate and aides to John McCain.
The Republican senator tears into the president for breaking his word to the American people.
Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.
President Obama exhorted Senate Democrats to put aside their fierce policy differences and to make history by passing landmark health care legislation.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., says he's "proud" of his former U.S. vice presidential running mate, Sarah Palin.
Obama administration officials seemed to give conflicting assessments about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts.
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Sarah Palin, promoting her memoir, made her first trip to Iowa since she ran last year as the vice- presidential candidate on the losing Republican ticket.
Top Senate Republicans say President Barack Obama's drive for a health care overhaul has become a closed-door, partisan effort that is aiding drug companies and other medical providers.
A federal program that began as a safety net for Pacific Northwest logging communities hard-hit by battles over the spotted owl in the 1990s has morphed into a sprawling entitlement — one that ships vast amounts of money to states with little or no historic connection to timber, an analysis by The Associated Press shows.
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Democrats appearing on Sunday morning news shows said they are optimistic the Senate will pass health care reform legislation soon, with some saying significant progress is imminent.
Perhaps only a “handful” of U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan in July 2011, the date President Obama set to begin a withdrawal, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said.
Meg Whitman: Is California Ready for Another Celebrity Governor?
National security adviser James Jones said Sunday that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan. Most recent U.S. estimates have placed bin Laden inside Pakistan. But Jones, a retired general, said the best estimate is that bin Laden "is somewhere in North Waziristan, sometimes on the Pakistani side of the border, sometimes on the Afghan side of the border."
Transcript of the December 6, 2009 broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press," featuring Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, John McCain, Bob Woodward and Tom Friedman.
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