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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will not be in Afghanistan eight years from now, the White House said on Wednesday, as President Barack Obama prepared to explain to Americans next week why he is expanding the war effort.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is paying a price for a recession that began before he took office, and fellow Democrats have started to balk at his legislative agenda and demand greater efforts to create jobs.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran's demand for changes to a nuclear fuel deal is unacceptable because it could mean Tehran keeping enough enriched uranium for possible use in an atom bomb, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said in an interview.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel announced on Wednesday it was limiting settlement construction for 10 months to try to revive peace negotiations with the Palestinians, but they said the step fell short of their terms for talks.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States unveiled its proposal to cut greenhouse gases by 2020 on Wednesday and said President Barack Obama will attend U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen next month -- before other world leaders show up.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fight over a U.S. government-run public insurance plan may be getting louder and noisier, but for now the program's political symbolism far exceeds its practical impact on expanding health coverage.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court indicted seven Pakistani suspects on terror charges on Wednesday in connection with last year's attack on the Indian city of Mumbai, a defense lawyer said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and U.N. officials have proposed solutions to Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president to stop him vetoing for a second time a law needed for an election to take place next year, an official said on Wednesday.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Two freelance journalists released in Somalia Wednesday after 15 months captivity said they were tortured and feared being sold on to hardline rebels in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey voters are split on whether to legalize gay marriage, but more people now oppose it than support it, a poll found on Wednesday.
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Senator Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) told CNSNews.com that civilian courts are well-suited to prosecute al Qaeda terrorists and "if people don't believe in our system, they ought to go somewhere else."
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told CNSNews.com that the Obama administration was giving 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed "his wish" by giving him a trial in federal civilian court in New York instead of trying him before a military commission.
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Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) said that whether U.S. troops would have to read Osama bin Laden his Miranda rights upon capture was a "murky area."
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Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) said that civilian courts are better than military tribunals for prosecuting terrorists, but he did not directly answer whether 9/11 leader Osama bin Laden, if captured, should be read his Miranda rights.
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House Republicans are asking the Obama administration to stop touting the number of jobs "saved or created" by the $787 billion economic stimulus law, citing widespread reports that the data are inaccurate.
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The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released a report on Monday saying that the climate change legislation being considered by Congress could reduce the purchasing power of the middle class and shrink or slow the economy.
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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says no more low-income, mostly minority children will get taxpayer-funded scholarships to attend private or parochial schools in the District of Columbia.
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"Pakistan risks falling prey to a worsening cycle of poverty, polarization and conflict, at a time when the population continues to increase rapidly and growing numbers of Pakistanis hunger for a better life," the report said.
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After his election last November and until the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed in February, President Obama repeatedly insisted that it was urgent for Congress enact his economic "recovery" bill immediately. Yet, by the end of fiscal 2009 78 percent of the federal spedning authorized by that bill had not yet taken place.
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A longtime liberal activist is collecting accounts of homosexuals in the Catholic priesthood--and plans to use those accounts to "encourage" priests to renounce the Church's moral stand on homosexuality or face public "outing."
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