Last night President George W. Bush and his wife Laura made a secret visit to the devastated military families at Ft. Hood. The Bushes instructed the commander of the mourning military base that they wanted no publicity. With their Secret Service ...Read More
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - One restored a Haitian president to power; the other flew him back out again. Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are visiting Haiti on Monday, reminding the country of its tumultuous recent past ...Read More
The Democratic administration of Barack Obama, who denounced his presidential predecessor George W. Bush as the most secretive in history, is now denying more Freedom of Information Act requests than the Republican did. Transparency and openness were so important to the ...Read More
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Hispanics, frustrated that President Barack Obama has yet to fulfill a pledge to revamp the immigration system, are warning him to deliver this year or face the consequences in congressional elections in November. Tens of thousands of Latinos ...Read More
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened the forum of seven senior ministers Wednesday for another round of marathon deliberations over his visit to Washington next week for the AIPAC conference. Netanyhau finds himself in an awkward position: The American Mideast envoy George ...Read More
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Russia on Thursday hoping to clear obstacles to a new treaty cutting arsenals of nuclear weapons and to win Moscow's backing for tougher sanctions against Iran.
President Barack Obama has ...Read More
Fox News' Bret Baier interrupted President Obama so many times during Wednesday's interview that Newsweek described the enounter as a "interrupt-a-thon." Baier acknowledged his repeated interjections at the end of the interview, by interrupting the president once more to apologize. Baier ...Read More
UNITED NATIONS | U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday selected U.S. foreign policy expert Tony Lake, who was an adviser to President Obama, as his candidate to head UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency. UNICEF's board must approve the selection, and is ...Read More
When the bare-knuckled brawl over health-care reform finally wraps up, and the Obama Administration pivots to less divisive topics, education reform may be one of the few issues capable of drawing bipartisan support. The Obama Administration's proposed overhaul of No ...Read More
Here's a not-so-tiny tidbit of data that's getting lost in the White House-driven public frenzy over healthcare legislation this week:
The White House Democratic administration of Barack Obama, who denounced his presidential predecessor George W. Bush as the most secretive in ...Read More
As the US seeks support at the UN Security Council for new sanctions against Iran, Tehran continues to defy the international community, saying its nuclear program has peaceful not military aims. The controversy has triggered a debate on whether new ...Read More
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's choice to be the first U.S. ambassador to Syria in five years told his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday he'll deliver "unfiltered straight talk" to Damascus about its support of terror groups. "They need to hear directly ...Read More
In the blueprint for overhauling federal education policy that President Obama sent to Congress on Monday, his administration seeks to confront some of the major educational challenges that have developed during the eight years that President George W. Bush's No ...Read More
Hannah Montana stars Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus know how to plan a sneak attack: After inviting dozens of military families to fill the studio audience during the March 12 taping of the hit series, they surprised the audience by ...Read More
ATLANTA -- President Barack Obama is promising parents and their children that they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.
The Obama administration unvielved a plan ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Karl Rove, architect of George W. Bush's two presidential election wins, says he believes Republicans need to offer more than just opposition to Democrats in the November congressional elections.
Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate ...Read More
President Obama announced plans Saturday to overhaul the controversial No Child Left Behind act - even dropping its well-known name. The new Elementary and Secondary Education Act will focus on providing incentives to schools that make progress toward better educating the nation's ...Read More
Guest lineup for today's TV news shows: •ABC's “This Week,” 9:30 a.m. - White House senior adviser David Axelrod; Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican. •CBS' “Face the Nation,” 1 a.m. Monday - White House press secretary Robert Gibbs; Sen. Lamar Alexander, ...Read More
WASHINGTON-The Obama administration plans to upend how the government measures and encourages success in the country's public schools as part of a sweeping proposal to rewrite President George W. Bush's signature No Child Left Behind law.
The administration's blueprint, which would ...Read More
ATLANTA - President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.
A plan ...Read More
