http://uspoliticsinfo.com/topic/middle-east2011-12-19T19:30:40Z2011-12-19T19:30:40ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-12-19:/u.s.-politics/shows-doubt-monitoring-syria-4879448a/

<div><p>The <a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >Obama administration</a> expressed doubt Monday that <a title="Syria" href="/topic/Syria" >Syria</a> was genuine in its promise to allow Arab observers to monitor a deal to end a nine-month protest crackdown that has killed over 5,000 people.</p><p>"A signature on a piece of paper from a regime like this, that has broken promise after promise after promise, means relatively little to us," <span>State Department</span> spokeswoman <s...

2011-12-19T06:30:24ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-12-19:/u.s.-presidential-election/romney-sees-long-bitter-nominating-fight-4878972a/

<div><p><a title="Mitt Romney" href="/topic/Mitt+Romney" >Mitt Romney</a> geared up Monday for a long and bitter fight for the Republican presidential nomination even as he attacked current frontrunner <a title="Newt Gingrich" href="/topic/Newt+Gingrich" >Newt Gingrich</a> as "unreliable" and "zany."</p><p>With the first Republican nominating contest a little over two weeks away in <span>Iowa</span>, Romney made his first appearance on a Sunday television talk show since March 2010 to try to rec...

2011-12-16T16:30:32ZReuters US Online Report Politics Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-12-16:/u.s.-conservative-politics/obama-pushing-republicans-defends-israel-4877926a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - <span><a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >President Barack Obama</a></span> assured Jewish voters on Friday he remains committed to <span><a title="Israel" href="/topic/Israel" >Israel</a></span>'s security and a two-state solution with the Palestinians as he defended himself against attacks on his policy from Republican presidential challengers.</p><p>Obama,...

2011-12-16T15:30:48ZReuters US Online Report Politics Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-12-16:/u.s.-conservative-politics/obama-pushing-republicans-vows-support-israel-4877887a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - <span><a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >President Barack Obama</a></span> assured Jewish voters on Friday he remains committed to <span><a title="Israel" href="/topic/Israel" >Israel</a></span>'s security and a two-state solution with the Palestinians as he defended himself against attacks on his policy from Republican presidential challengers.</p><p>Obama,...

2011-12-15T15:00:31ZReuters US Online Report Politics Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-12-15:/u.s.-presidential-election/veterans-tout-obamas-record-military-leader-4877078a/

<div><p><span><a title="Chicago" href="/topic/Chicago" >CHICAGO</a></span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - As the war in <span><a title="Iraq" href="/topic/Iraq" >Iraq</a></span> draws to a close, <span><a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >U.S. President Barack Obama</a></span>'s re-election campaign has quietly enlisted an army of veterans to urge other military men and women to vote for him in November.</p><p>The Obama c...

2011-12-14T17:30:11ZReuters US Online Report Politics Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-12-14:/u.s.-congressional-politics/house-votes-sanctions-iran-north-korea-syria-4876462a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - The <span><a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Representatives" >U.S. House of Representatives</a></span> passed legislation on Wednesday that would expand sanctions on <a title="Iran" href="/topic/Iran" >Iran</a>, cracking down on a wider range of energy issues and closing some loopholes in existing energy and financial sanctions.</p><p>Some s...

2011-12-14T16:00:18ZReuters US Online Report Politics Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-12-14:/u.s.-congressional-politics/house-passes-bill-expand-sanctions-iran-4876396a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - The <span><a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Representatives" >U.S. House of Representatives</a></span> passed legislation on Wednesday that would expand sanctions on <span><a title="Iran" href="/topic/Iran" >Iran</a></span>, cracking down on a wider range of energy issues and closing some loopholes in existing energy and financial sanctions....

2011-11-30T18:30:24ZReuters US Online Report Politics Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-11-30:/u.s.-congressional-politics/senate-pushes-hurry-afghanistan-pullout-4867067a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - The Senate voted on Wednesday to require <span><a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >President Barack Obama</a></span> to devise a plan for expediting the pullout of U.S. troops from <a title="Afghanistan" href="/topic/Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a>, signaling growing impatience in Congress.</p><p>Obama in June called for about a third of U.S. forces, or 33,000 ...

2011-11-20T07:00:25ZReuters US Online Report World Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-11-20:/u.s.-conservative-politics/iran-daily-closed-ahmadinejad-aide-interview-4860419a/

<div><p><span><a title="Tehran" href="/topic/Tehran" >TEHRAN</a></span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - Iranian authorities shut down a reformist newspaper on Sunday after it published a scathing attack by an aide to <span><a title="Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" href="/topic/Mahmoud+Ahmadinejad" >Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</a></span> on the president's rival conservatives, the latest sign of a split in the highest echelons of the Islamic Republic.</p><p...

2011-10-20T12:30:31ZReuters US Online Report World Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-10-20:/u.s.-politics/white-house-repeats-syrias-assad-lost-legitimacy-4846718a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - <a title="The White House" href="/topic/The+White+House" >The White House</a> repeated on Thursday that <span><a title="Bashar Assad" href="/topic/Bashar+Assad" >Syrian President Bashar al-Assad</a></span> had lost his legitimacy to rule.</p><p><span><a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >President Barack Obama</a></span> said earlier that <span><a title="Moamma...

2011-10-01T11:30:04ZReuters US Online Report World Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-10-01:/u.s.-conservative-politics/saudi-cleric-discontent-womens-rights-move-4838761a/

<div><p><span><a title="Jiddah" href="/topic/Jiddah" >JEDDAH</a></span>, <span><a title="Saudi Arabia" href="/topic/Saudi+Arabia" >Saudi Arabia</a></span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - One of Saudi Arabia's most senior clerics said he was not consulted about <span><a title="King Abdullah" href="/topic/King+Abdullah" >King Abdullah</a></span>'s decision to grant women more political rights, one of the first signs of discontent from powe...

2011-09-26T20:30:36ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-09-26:/u.s.-politics/weighs-blacklisting-haqqani-network-4836725a/

<div><p>The <a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >Obama administration</a> is considering placing the Haqqani network on its list of terror groups after blaming the militants for deadly attacks in <a title="Afghanistan" href="/topic/Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a>, a US official said Monday.</p><p>Seven leaders of the Haqqani network, which operates from safe havens in <span><a title="Pakistan" href="/topic/Pakistan" >Pakistan</a></span> and was founded by former <span>CIA</span> ass...

2011-09-12T07:00:30ZReuters US Online Report Politics Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-09-12:/u.s.-politics/saudi-prince-calls-palestinian-status-4830559a/

<div><p><span><a title="Dubai" href="/topic/Dubai" >DUBAI</a></span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - <span><a title="Saudi Arabia" href="/topic/Saudi+Arabia" >Saudi Arabia</a></span>'s former top U.S. diplomat pressed the <span><a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >United States</a></span> to support a Palestinian bid to upgrade its <span><a title="United Nations" href="/topic/United+Nations" >U.N.</a></span> status, sayi...

2011-09-07T07:30:22ZReuters US Online Report Politics Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-09-07:/tea-party-movement/democrat-faces-close-race-new-york-stronghold-4828829a/

<div><p>NEW YORK (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - The election to replace <span><a title="Anthony Weiner" href="/topic/Anthony+Weiner" >Anthony Weiner</a></span>, who resigned from Congress after being revealed as an internet womanizer who used <span><a title="Twitter Inc." href="/topic/Twitter+Inc." >Twitter</a></span> to send lewd pictures of himself, is more competitive than anyone expected.</p><p>Republicans are hoping for an upset in...

2011-08-24T02:31:04ZLas Vegas Suntag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-08-24:/tea-party-movement/letters-editor-4823239a/

<div><p>Raise taxes and make sensible cuts</p><p>I'm getting tired of people constantly complaining about the lack of action by Congress. If they want someone to blame, they should look in the mirror.</p><p>The solution for <span>America</span>'s financial problems is simple: Raise taxes and make judicious cuts in spending. But if a member of Congress stood in front of his or her constituents and told them they'd have to pay more in taxes while seeing their benefits reduced, that politician woul...

2011-08-19T18:30:25ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-08-19:/confirmation-hearings/syrian-opposition-cohesive-4821730a/

<div><p>The Syrian opposition is becoming "more cohesive" and "more broadly representative" of the country as a whole, a <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >US</a> official said Friday.</p><p>Mark Toner, the <span>State Department</span>'s deputy spokesman, told <span><a title="Cable News Network" href="/topic/Cable+News+Network" >CNN</a></span> that a real opposition to <span><a title="Bashar Assad" href="/topic/Bashar+Assad" >Syrian President Bashar al-Assad</a></span> was be...

2011-08-10T14:30:20ZReuters US Online Report Top Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-08-10:/u.s.-politics/imposes-syria-sanctions-set-urge-assad-exit-4818000a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - The <span><a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >United States</a></span> imposed new financial sanctions on <a title="Syria" href="/topic/Syria" >Syria</a> Wednesday and edged closer to issuing an explicit call for <span><a title="Bashar Assad" href="/topic/Bashar+Assad" >Syrian President Bashar al-Assad</a></span> to step down.</p><p>With international press...

2011-07-13T10:00:12ZReuters US Online Report Politics Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-07-13:/u.s.-presidential-election/gingrich-bring-troops-home-faster-4806271a/

<div><p><span><a title="Charleston (South Carolina)" href="/topic/Charleston+(South+Carolina)" >CHARLESTON, South Carolina</a></span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - Republican presidential candidate and former <a title="Newt Gingrich" href="/topic/Newt+Gingrich" >House Speaker Newt Gingrich</a> said on Wednesday that as president he would draw down <span>U.S.</span> troops in <span><a title="Iraq" href="/topic/Iraq" >Iraq</a></span> and...

2011-07-10T06:30:05ZReuters US Online Report Politics Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-07-10:/tea-party-movement/tea-partiers-show-mixed-views-foreign-policy-4804846a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - Tea Party movement-backed lawmakers have marched in lockstep toward the goal of shrinking the government but that unity dissolves when it comes to America's role in the world.</p><p>Republicans who were elected to Congress with support of the grassroots movement have bucked Republican orthodoxy by supporting some defense spending cuts, and they have been at the forefront of ...

2011-06-20T12:31:00ZReuters US Online Report Politics Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-06-20:/u.s.-conservative-politics/mccain-rips-republican-candidates-isolationism-4796154a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - <span><a title="John McCain" href="/topic/John+McCain" >Republican Senator John McCain</a></span>, his party's 2008 presidential nominee, ripped into the current crop of Republican <span><a title="The White House" href="/topic/The+White+House" >White House</a></span> contenders, accusing them of breaking party tradition by preaching "isolationism."</p><p>McCain said if forme...

2011-06-17T10:30:56ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-06-17:/u.s.-politics/pentagon-extend-afghanistan-surge-4795131a/

<div><p>The <a title="U.S. Armed Forces" href="/topic/U.S.+Armed+Forces" >US military</a> is asking <a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >President Barack Obama</a> to maintain its troop surge in <a title="Afghanistan" href="/topic/Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a> until the fall of 2012, a month before a scheduled withdrawal, <a title="The Wall Street Journal" href="/topic/The+Wall+Street+Journal" >The Wall Street Journal</a> reported Friday.</p><p>The timeline would mean the presiden...

2011-06-15T10:00:14ZReuters US Online Report Top Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-06-15:/u.s.-congressional-politics/karzai-step-afghan-leader-2014-gates-4794058a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - <span><a title="Hamid Karzai" href="/topic/Hamid+Karzai" >Hamid Karzai</a></span> has said privately he intends to step down in 2014 as president of <span><a title="Afghanistan" href="/topic/Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a></span> as required by the country's constitution, <span><a title="Robert Gates" href="/topic/Robert+Gates" >Defense Secretary Robert Gates</a></span> told a...

2011-06-08T19:30:41ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-06-08:/confirmation-hearings/walk-obama-pick-afghan-envoy-4791329a/

<div><p><a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >President Barack Obama</a>'s pick for envoy to <a title="Kabul" href="/topic/Kabul" >Kabul</a> warned <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >America</a> could not afford the "disastrous" consequences of walking away from <a title="Afghanistan" href="/topic/Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a>, as debate raged over a pending US troop drawdown.</p><p><span><a title="Ryan Crocker" href="/topic/Ryan+Crocker" >Ryan Crocker</a></span>...

2011-05-14T14:30:21ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-05-14:/u.s.-congressional-politics/senator-kerry-afghanistan-4780738a/

<div><p>Influential <a title="John Kerry" href="/topic/John+Kerry" >US Senator John Kerry</a> arrived in <a title="Afghanistan" href="/topic/Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a> on Saturday, the embassy in <a title="Kabul" href="/topic/Kabul" >Kabul</a> said, ahead of a visit to neighbouring <a title="Pakistan" href="/topic/Pakistan" >Pakistan</a> following the death of <a title="Osama bin Laden" href="/topic/Osama+bin+Laden" >Osama bin Laden</a>.</p><p><span><a title="The White House" href="/topic/The...

2011-05-10T15:30:37ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-05-10:/u.s.-congressional-politics/netanyahu-address-congress-24-speaker-4778870a/

<div><p><a title="Benjamin Netanyahu" href="/topic/Benjamin+Netanyahu" >Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</a> will address a joint session of the <a title="U.S. Congress" href="/topic/U.S.+Congress" >US Congress</a> on May 24, <a title="John Boehner" href="/topic/John+Boehner" >Republican House Speaker John Boehner</a> announced Tuesday.</p><p>"It will be an honor to welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu to the Capitol on May 24 as part of his official visit to the <span><a title="United Stat...

2011-04-20T17:30:34ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-04-20:/u.s.-politics/afghanistan-obama-foe-assails-pullout-plan-4770591a/

<div><p><a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Representatives" >US House</a> <a title="John Boehner" href="/topic/John+Boehner" >Speaker John Boehner</a> wrapped up a visit to <a title="Afghanistan" href="/topic/Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a> Wednesday and assailed <a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >President Barack Obama</a>'s plan to begin pulling <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >US</a> troops out in July a risk to fragile secu...

2011-04-17T15:30:32ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-04-17:/u.s.-congressional-politics/top-republican-impressed-progress-iraq-4768659a/

<div><p><a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Representatives" >US House</a> <a title="John Boehner" href="/topic/John+Boehner" >Speaker John Boehner</a>, on a visit to <a title="Baghdad" href="/topic/Baghdad" >Baghdad</a>, hailed <a title="Iraq" href="/topic/Iraq" >Iraq</a>'s march toward self-governance by year's end, praising it as "a different country" from the violence-ridden recent past.</p><p>"Just four years ago, a terrorist insurgency was killing innocent c...

2011-04-16T18:30:23ZAFP Global Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-04-16:/u.s.-congressional-politics/maliki-tells-uss-boehner-iraqi-troops-ready-4768530a/

<div><p><a title="Nouri al-Maliki" href="/topic/Nouri+al-Maliki" >Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki</a> insisted Iraqi forces were capable of maintaining security in the country during talks with <a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Representatives" >US House of Representatives</a> <a title="John Boehner" href="/topic/John+Boehner" >Speaker John Boehner</a> in <a title="Baghdad" href="/topic/Baghdad" >Baghdad</a> on Saturday.</p><p>Maliki's evening meeting with Boehner...

2011-04-11T10:30:59ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-04-11:/u.s.-politics/obama-qatari-emir-4766236a/

<div><p><a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >President Barack Obama</a> will welcome the Qatari emir to <a title="Washington, DC" href="/topic/Washington%2c+DC" >Washington</a> for talks this week, a <a title="The White House" href="/topic/The+White+House" >White House</a> spokesman said Sunday.</p><p>"President Obama will welcome to the White House the Amir of <span><a title="Qatar" href="/topic/Qatar" >Qatar</a></span>, His Highness Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on Thursday, April...

2011-04-03T18:30:25ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-04-03:/u.s.-politics/hedges-bets-syria-analysts-4762983a/

<div><p>Although the Assad regime in <a title="Syria" href="/topic/Syria" >Syria</a> has long been a thorn in <a title="Washington, DC" href="/topic/Washington%2c+DC" >Washington</a>'s side, the <a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >Obama administration</a> is not yet ready to throw its lot in with anti-government protesters there, analysts said.</p><p>The unrest gripping Syria comes as President Barack Obama pursues a new <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >US</a...

2011-03-28T15:30:19ZReuters Life! Online Reporttag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-03-28:/u.s.-politics/american-dream-life-kids-poll-4759921a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span> Life!) - For most Americans giving their children a better life or having a successful business or career is their version of the American Dream, according to a new poll released on Monday.</p><p>Their children's welfare was the top priority for 53 percent of Americans questioned about the American Dream in a <span id="60_minutes" class="inform"><a title="60 Minutes" href="/topic...

2011-03-21T10:30:18ZReuters US Online Report Politics Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-03-21:/u.s.-congressional-politics/nancy-pelosi-briefly-hospitalized-rome-4756793a/

<div><p>ROME (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - <span><a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Representatives" >House of Representatives</a></span> Democratic leader <a title="Nancy Pelosi" href="/topic/Nancy+Pelosi" >Nancy Pelosi</a> was released from a short stay in a hospital on Monday and is resuming her scheduled activities in <span><a title="Italy" href="/topic/Italy" >Italy</a></span>, spokesman <span><a t...

2011-03-21T09:30:29ZReuters Life! Online Reporttag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-03-21:/u.s.-politics/excia-agent-valerie-plame-write-female-spy-books-4756768a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - Former CIA operative <a title="Valerie Plame" href="/topic/Valerie+Plame" >Valerie Plame</a> will co-author a fiction spy series of books with a female undercover espionage operative as the central character, Penguin books said on Monday.</p><p>Plame, whose real life global espionage tale has already been depicted in last year's Hollywood film, "<span id="fair_game__2010_" cla...

2011-02-19T09:30:11ZAFP Global Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-02-19:/u.s.-congressional-politics/house-votes-cut-61-bn-govt-spending-4744602a/

<div><p>The Republican-controlled <a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Representatives" >US House of Representatives</a> voted early on Saturday to cut about $61 billion in government spending, setting the stage for a bruising political battle with <a title="U.S. Democratic Party" href="/topic/U.S.+Democratic+Party" >Democrats</a> who control the Senate and the <a title="The White House" href="/topic/The+White+House" >White House</a>.</p><p>The 235-189 partisan-lin...

2011-02-18T17:30:44ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-02-18:/u.s.-congressional-politics/spending-battle-escalates-shutdown-fears-4744453a/

<div><p>A grueling and already angry <a title="U.S. Congress" href="/topic/U.S.+Congress" >US Congress</a> battle over painful spending cuts escalated Friday amid growing concerns that the world's richest country hurtled towards a government shutdown.</p><p>The <span><a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Representatives" >US House of Representatives</a></span>' Republican leaders aimed to wrap up the fight and vote late in the day on their package to fund the <a tit...

2011-01-25T06:30:22ZAFP Global Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-01-25:/u.s.-congressional-politics/obama-republicans-spar-jobs-key-speech-4733771a/

<div><p><a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >President Barack Obama</a> on Tuesday faces a <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >US</a> public hungry for jobs, and <a title="U.S. Republican Party" href="/topic/U.S.+Republican+Party" >Republicans</a> eager to oust him, when he delivers his yearly "State of the Union" speech in a tense new era of power-sharing.</p><p>Obama steps up at 9:00 pm (0200 GMT Wednesday) to address a joint session of the <span><a title="U.S....

2010-12-04T10:30:38ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-12-04:/u.s.-politics/obama-returns-washington-afghanistan-visit-4706088a/

<div><p> <a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >US President Barack Obama</a> returned to the <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >US</a> capital early on Saturday after a surprise visit to <a title="Afghanistan" href="/topic/Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a> where he assured US troops they were winning the war against the <a title="The Taliban" href="/topic/The+Taliban" >Taliban</a>.</p><p>A plane carrying the president touched down at <span><a title="Andrews Air Force...

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2010-11-30T13:54:39ZMahalotag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-30:/u.s.-presidential-election/obama-petraeus-4697547a/

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2010-11-30T13:53:49ZMahalotag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-30:/u.s.-politics/mccain-surge-confusion-4696759a/

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2010-11-30T13:54:36ZMahalotag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-30:/u.s.-politics/obama-iraq-visit-4697503a/

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2010-11-30T13:56:40ZMahalotag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-30:/u.s.-congressional-politics/time-person-year-2009-4699561a/

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2010-11-30T13:56:56ZMahalotag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-30:/u.s.-congressional-politics/-saudi-arabia-arms-sale-4699853a/

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2010-11-30T13:52:55ZMahalotag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-30:/u.s.-politics/katie-couric-iraq-coverage-4695917a/

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2010-11-30T13:59:59ZMahalotag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-30:/u.s.-politics/obama-aipac-4702913a/

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2010-11-14T10:30:09ZReuters US Online Report Politics Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-14:/u.s.-politics/senator-graham-stunned-karzai-comments-4380884a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - <a title="Lindsey Graham" href="/topic/Lindsey+Graham" >Republican Senator Lindsey Graham</a>, who met with <span><a title="Hamid Karzai" href="/topic/Hamid+Karzai" >Afghan President Hamid Karzai</a></span> during a recent visit, said on Sunday he was "stunned" at Karzai's comments to a <a title="Washington, DC" href="/topic/Washington%2c+DC" >Washington</a> newspaper, which...

2010-11-29T14:31:47ZBig Thinktag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-politics/howard-zinn-presidential-candidates-4397648a/

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2010-11-30T13:50:03ZMahalotag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-30:/u.s.-politics/chuck-hagel-4693167a/

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2010-11-30T13:50:52ZMahalotag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-30:/u.s.-congressional-politics/elijah-cummings-4693971a/

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2010-11-30T13:50:22ZMahalotag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-30:/u.s.-congressional-politics/dan-burton-4693461a/

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2010-11-30T13:49:39ZMahalotag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-30:/u.s.-congressional-politics/1991-4692828a/

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2010-11-30T13:50:02ZMahalotag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-30:/u.s.-congressional-politics/christopher-shays-4693158a/

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2010-11-11T07:00:39ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-11:/u.s.-congressional-politics/boost-weapons-stockpile-israel-report-4378901a/

<div><p>The move, which will see an extra 400-million-dollars worth of smart bombs and other precision weaponry and equipment moved to <a title="Israel" href="/topic/Israel" >Israel</a> over the next two years, was approved last week by the <span><a title="U.S. Congress" href="/topic/U.S.+Congress" >US Congress</a></span>, the Israeli correspondent of Defense News reported.</p><p>The upgrade will see the value of <span><a title="U.S. Armed Forces" href="/topic/U.S.+Armed+Forces" >US military</a>...

2010-11-08T18:00:38ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-08:/u.s.-liberal-politics/canada-extend-afghan-mission-2014-report-4376714a/

<div><p>According to the plan detailed by CBC, up to 750 trainers and at least 200 support staff would work outside the combat zone at a training academy or large training facility for Afghan soldiers and police officers.</p><p>On Sunday, <span><a title="Peter MacKay" href="/topic/Peter+MacKay" >Defense Minister Peter MacKay</a></span> said <a title="Canada" href="/topic/Canada" >Canada</a> was "considering" keeping troops in the war-ravaged nation beyond its parliamentary-mandated mid-2011 exit...

2010-11-29T15:43:07ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-politics/assessing-signs-americas-demise-4563281a/

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2010-11-29T15:41:19ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-politics/iraq-probable-future-american-occupation-4559276a/

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2010-11-29T16:03:58ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-liberal-politics/ways-liberals-conservatives-touch-average-americans-4611567a/

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2010-11-29T15:43:14ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-politics/politics-stop-waters-edge-foreign-diplomacy-long-war-4563544a/

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2010-11-29T15:41:39ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-politics/media-reviews-news-coverage-war-iraq-4560054a/

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2010-11-29T15:41:19ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-politics/war-iraq-assessment-president-bushs-surge-strategy-4559284a/

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2010-11-29T16:03:53ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-politics/views-president-bush-4611328a/

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2010-11-29T16:03:54ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-politics/rep-kucinich-calls-impeachment-dick-cheney-4611357a/

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2010-11-29T15:43:14ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-congressional-politics/iraq-withdrawal-bill-doesnt-passed-4563532a/

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2010-11-29T15:43:00ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-congressional-politics/aipac-rules-capitol-hill-reflections-proisraeli-lobbys-influence-government-4563033a/

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2010-11-29T15:43:12ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-liberal-politics/presidential-candidate-barrack-obama-speaks-war-iraq-4563460a/

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2010-11-29T15:41:23ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-politics/policy-government-positively-negatively-impacted-people-part-world-4559465a/

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2010-11-29T15:41:45ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-politics/44th-president-protecting-predecessor-4560261a/

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2010-11-29T16:03:54ZHeliumtag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-29:/u.s.-politics/bush-impeached-adding-costs-iraq-4611356a/

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2010-11-08T16:02:06ZAFP American Editiontag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-08:/u.s.-liberal-politics/liberals-mum-extending-afghan-mission-4376647a/

<div><p>But Ignatieff, reacting to <span><a title="Peter MacKay" href="/topic/Peter+MacKay" >Defence Minister Peter MacKay</a></span>'s comments on Sunday that <a title="Canada" href="/topic/Canada" >Canada</a> was "considering" keeping troops in the war-ravaged nation beyond its parliamentary-mandated mid-2011 exit, kept mum about the <a title="Liberal Party of Canada" href="/topic/Liberal+Party+of+Canada" >Liberals</a>' position on the matter.</p><p>"I have nothing to say because there isn't a...

2011-01-04T14:01:54ZAP Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-01-04:/photo/obit-shah-irans-son-2406018p/

FILE - In this Friday, April 15, 2005 file photo, <a title="Iran" href="/topic/Iran" >Iran</a>'s <a title="Farah Pahlavi" href="/topic/Farah+Pahlavi" >Farah Pahlavi</a>, widow of Iranian <a title="Mohammad Reza Pahlavi" href="/topic/Mohammad+Reza+Pahlavi" >Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi</a>, right, and her son <a title="Alireza Pahlavi" href="/topic/Alireza+Pahlavi" >Alireza Pahlavi</a>, are seen during <a title="Prince Rainier III of Monaco" href="/topic/Prince+Rainier+III+of+Monaco" >Prince Raini...

2011-01-04T10:32:33ZAP Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-01-04:/photo/qatar-atp-open-tennis-2405947p/

<a title="Slovakia" href="/topic/Slovakia" >Slovakia</a>'s <a title="Karol Beck" href="/topic/Karol+Beck" >Karol Beck</a> serves the ball to <a title="Rafael Nadal" href="/topic/Rafael+Nadal" >Rafael Nadal</a> of <a title="Spain" href="/topic/Spain" >Spain</a> during the <a title="Qatar" href="/topic/Qatar" >Qatar</a> ATP Open Tennis tournament in <a title="Doha" href="/topic/Doha" >Doha</a>, Qatar, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)<div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2011&#1...

2011-01-04T09:32:05ZAP Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-01-04:/photo/mideast-israel-palestinians-2405911p/

<a title="Israel" href="/topic/Israel" >Israel</a>'s <a title="Benjamin Netanyahu" href="/topic/Benjamin+Netanyahu" >Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</a> convenes the weekly cabinet meeting in <a title="Jerusalem" href="/topic/Jerusalem" >Jerusalem</a>, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, Pool)<div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2011&#160; <a href="http://www.ap.org">AP News</a></div></div><div><p></p><br /><br /></div>...

2011-01-04T06:02:28ZAP Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-01-04:/photo/afghanistan-2405860p/

Afghan police officers look for clues near the site of an explosion in <a title="Kabul Province" href="/topic/Kabul+Province" >Kabul, Afghanistan</a>, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. The bomb exploded in central <a title="Kabul" href="/topic/Kabul" >Kabul</a> early Tuesday, killing one police officer and wounding three other people, a government official said, on the one-year anniversary of the country's constitution.(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)<div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2011&#160; <a href="ht...

2011-01-04T02:31:18ZAP Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2011-01-04:/photo/mideast-israel-palestinians-solar-eclipse-2405813p/

A view of a partial solar eclipse as seen from the town of <a title="Givatayim" href="/topic/Givatayim" >Givatayim</a> near <a title="Tel Aviv" href="/topic/Tel+Aviv" >Tel Aviv</a>, <a title="Israel" href="/topic/Israel" >Israel</a>, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and will extend across much of <a title="Europe" href="/topic/Europe" >Europe</a>. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)<div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2011&#160; <a href="http...