For the first two years of Barack Obama’s presidency, Mitch McConnell never got a phone call from the White House.
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In Japan, a Revolution Over Childbearing
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When Porno Was Chic
Sen. Joseph Biden has some company — it turns out serious political gaffes aren’t just for bumbling American presidential candidates
Barack Obama’s Golf Game
Presidents, like normal people, tend to seek in others what they admire about themselves. Which brings us to the par-5 12th hole at Woodlawn golf course in Fort Belvoir, Va., on Father’s Day
Report: Saudi girl granted divorce
A court in Saudi Arabia has granted an 8-year-old girl a divorce from her 47-year-old husband, after twice denying the divorce request previously, local media reported Thursday. Biden made the remarks on NBC’s “Today Show,” after he was asked what he would tell a family member about traveling to Mexico, where the first cases of the virus — technically known as 2009 H1N1 — were detected
Biden rebukes Cheney, guarantees we’re ‘safer today’
Vice President Joe Biden brushed aside recent criticism by predecessor Dick Cheney that moves by the Obama administration had put the United States at risk, telling CNN on Tuesday that the former vice president was "dead wrong." “I don’t think [Cheney] is out of line, but he is dead wrong,” he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “This administration — the last administration left us in a weaker posture than we’ve been any time since World War II: less regarded in the world, stretched more thinly than we ever have been in the past, two wars under way, virtually no respect in entire parts of the world. “..
Biden, Central American leaders hold talks in Costa Rica
Vice President Joseph Biden is meeting Monday with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and other Central American leaders to discuss U.S.
Seize opportunity for peace in Darfur, Clooney urges Obama
One week in Darfur, the next week at the White House. That’s the role of a peace activist — one that actor George Clooney embraces.