Since taking office, President Obama has signaled that the United States wants to improve relations with the powerhouse nations of East Asia, and he'll put his personal imprint on that when he travels to the region for the first time this week. ...more

November 9, 2009

A Russian air force chief said Saturday the country could base some strategic bombers in Cuba or on an island offered by Venezuela, the Interfax news agency reported, but a Kremlin official said the military had been speaking hypothetically. ...more

March 15, 2009

Former White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales misled Congress when he claimed the CIA in 2002 approved information that ended up in the 2003 State of the Union speech about Iraq's alleged effort to buy uranium for its nuclear weapons program, a House committee said today. ...more

December 18, 2008

It wasn't too long ago that Barack Obama and his advisers were tripping over one another to tear down Hillary Rodham Clinton's foreign policy credentials. She was dismissed as a commander in chief wanna-be who did little more than sip tea and make small talk with foreign leaders during her days as first lady. ...more

November 30, 2008

Seeking experience in a time of war, President-elect Barack Obama will keep Defense Secretary Robert Gates in that job - if only temporarily - and he has chosen a retired Marine general to be his national security adviser, officials said Tuesday. ...more

November 26, 2008

Vice presidential power was a term of mirth in governments past. Not anymore. Vice President Dick Cheney may be the nearest thing we have had to a deputy president. ...more

November 2, 2008

History Is Always 20/20 Much has been said in this newspaper and others blaming President Bush for everything that goes wrong not only in the U.S. but worldwide. I would only ask those who are rabidly anti-Bush and anti-Republican to answer one question: Could you have done the job differently? ...more

September 7, 2008

Although the U.S. government was supposed to have final say on any plan to rescue three U.S. contractors held by guerrillas, it was kept in the dark by the Colombian military until a week before the July 2 operation to lessen the chances the Bush administration would veto the effort, said a top official close to the operation. ...more

July 14, 2008

In 2002, as evidence of prisoner mistreatment at Guantanamo Bay began to mount, FBI agents at the base created a "war crimes file" to document accusations against American military personnel, but were eventually ordered to close the file, a Justice Department report disclosed Tuesday. ...more

May 21, 2008

Violent protests rocked Serb-dominated northern Kosovo on Friday, as mobs chanting "Kosovo is ours!" hurled stones, bottles and firecrackers at U.N. police guarding a bridge that divides Serbs from ethnic Albanians. ...more

February 23, 2008