In early 2009, as Barack Obama was about to take office, Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, assembled his caucus at a retreat in West Virginia. There, he laid out his strategy for taking on the new president, who was sweeping into office on a tide of popularity, historical resonance and great expectations barely diminished by the economic free fall then underway.
President Obama says during a joint news conferee with Afghanistan's President that the U.S. will keep its 9,800 U.S. troops—half of which it had planned to remove in coming months—stationed in Afghanistan through 2015.
A recent survey of New Jersey voters has shown just how far Chris Christie's ratings have fallen since the "bridgegate" scandal erupted. Where once he occasionally led Hillary Clinton in an imaginary race for President, Christie has now not only fallen significantly behind Clinton, but he's behind New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Robbie Novak, who plays "Kid President" in a series of popular YouTube videos approached the podium and said, "It looks like you were expecting somebody else."
The Israeli Prime Minister's Office held a preparatory meeting ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to Israel. Check out what Netanyahu has planned for Obama's visit.
The bottom line is that Democrats have offered a compromise plan to avoid the sequester, one that is balanced between revenue increases (e.g., by closing tax loopholes which benefit the wealthiest Americans and corporations) and smart - not meat cleaver, like the current sequester calls for - spending cuts.
President Obama repeats many of the themes from Tuesday night's State of the Union address while speaking to people at a manufacturing plant in Asheville, North Carolina Wednesday.
After eight years of tightened access to government records under the Bush administration, open-government advocates were hopeful when Barack Obama promised greater transparency. Four years later, did the president keep his promise?
