Unless you are a VIP with a ticket, you won't be able to attend in person Saturday's commissioning of the USS New York into active Navy service, but it will be streamed live on navy.mil. The 11 a.m. ceremony will be ...Read More
Hoping to counter a series of Republican efforts aimed at winning governorships and state legislatures in advance of the decennial congressional redistricting process, the Democratic Governors Association is launching its own venture, led by veteran party strategist Harold Ickes.
Ickes, who ...Read More
Mr Ban said Israel's blockade of Gaza was counter-productive
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out any concession on the building of settlements in occupied East Jerusalem, despite international pressure.
Mr Netanyahu said he had written to US Secretary of State ...Read More
The Obama administration signaled Friday that its 10-day spat with Israel may be nearing an end, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declaring to the BBC that the confrontation "is paying off" and would lead to a resumption of ...Read More
Washington (CNN) -- A new twist in the Air Force's 10-year effort to build an aerial refueling tanker may bring a bid from a Russian state-owned aerospace company for the $35 billion tanker contract, according to the company's U.S. attorney. The ...Read More
WASHINGTON - It was Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton who, nearly a year ago, fired the Obama administration's first warning shots about imposing “crippling sanctions” against Iran. Then came President Obama's declaration that if Iran did not respond to his ...Read More
NEW YORK - A federal judge on Friday rejected a legal settlement that would have given at least $575 million to people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal shortchanged 10,000 ground zero workers ...Read More
In a follow up to uncharacteristically strong statements from the Obama administration critical of, in the words of Hilary Clinton, Israel's "insulting" behavior, today, March 19, the Middle East quartet (the UN, the EU, Russia and the US) has strongly ...Read More
* Putin greets Clinton with litany of trade complaints Stocks | Mergers & Acquisitions | Global Markets * PM complains of U.S. sanctions on Russian firms NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia, March 19 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned U.S. Secretary of State Hillary ...Read More
MOSCOW -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin greeted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday with a volley of complaints about trade, while another top Russian official voiced caution about the Obama administration's campaign for tough sanctions on Iran.
Clinton's ...Read More
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday that the Obama administration's decision to ramp up pressure on Israel over construction of Jewish homes in east Jerusalem was bringing results. In an interview with BBC television, Clinton was asked ...Read More
NEW YORK (AP) - Ground zero recovery workers who say they suffered health problems after inhaling the ash and dust left by the collapse of the World Trade Center plan to go before a federal judge Friday who's considering whether ...Read More
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Russia and the United States are close to an agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.
Following a meeting Friday in Moscow with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, Clinton said all the major issues have ...Read More
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.'s decision about whether to pull out of China is a judgment only the company can make based on its best interests, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. “This is really between Google and China,” ...Read More
Despite their lengthy and bruising battle two years ago for their party's presidential nomination, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have since forged a strong partnership as president and secretary of state, The New York Times reported Friday.
In the 16 months ...Read More
Clinton says agreement with Russia near on nukes
MOSCOW — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that American and Russian negotiators are 'on the brink' of agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.
After meeting with Russian President Dmitry ...Read More
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Claiming that it has bowed far enough to U.S. interests, Pakistan will use next week's high-level talks with the Obama administration to seek more recognition for its part in the fight against terrorism and get Washington to ...Read More
BARVIKHA, Russia (Reuters) - The United States and Russia have resolved all major issues in talks on a new arms control pact and are on the brink of an agreement, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday.
"Our negotiating ...Read More
MOSCOW -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that American and Russian negotiators are "on the brink" of agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty. After meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Clinton said she expects a treaty-signing ...Read More
JERUSALEM -- Israel tried to defuse a dispute with the United States today over plans to expand settlements, saying it would propose "confidence-building" steps to the Palestinians to encourage a renewal of peace talks.
Relations between Israel and the United States ...Read More
The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has caved in to US demands over the Middle East peace process, opening the way for a resumption of talks with the Palestinians.
The humiliating climbdown, which came after a week of pressure from the ...Read More
