Sen. Ron Wyden (D- OR ), Sen. Harry Reid (D- NV ), Sen. Max Baucus (D- MT ) If this amendment passes, it could dramatically change--and most experts would say improve--the Senate health care reform bill. As part of an agreement hashed out at...

In this article: Ron Wyden, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon

...big ramp-up of troops" to oppose resurgent Taliban forces. She told NPR she had asked fellow Democrats to give President Barack Obama room to decide his Afghan strategy, which is expected to be announced in the coming weeks. Once Obama ,...

In this article: Nancy Pelosi, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama, National Public Radio, Afghanistan, U.S., Thomson Reuters, Small business, and Stanley McChrystal

RALEIGH , N.C. -- The U.S. Army will allow the media limited coverage of Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg , but will bar reporters from interviewing her or her supporters on the post, officials said Thursday. A Fort Bragg spokesman...

In this article: Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, North Carolina, Fort Bragg, HarperCollins, and U.S. Army

...women's fury last week over the Stupak amendment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi should have hitched a ride with Obama out of town. But she did not. Speaker Pelosi continued along unfazed. After taking away insurance funding for reproductive rights,...

In this article: Nancy Pelosi, The Daily Beast, Tina Brown, HuffPo, Ted Kennedy, PBS, The Washington Times, CNBC, and Vanity Fair

...to online inquisition from disgruntled middle-class parents during webchat on Mumsnet Last updated at 8:41 AM on 20th November 2009 David Cameron yesterday became the latest senior politician to incur the wrath of the nation's...

In this article: David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Eton, Labour, and Conservative Central Office

...make the case that he chose a civilian New York trial as a more likely venue for securing a conviction. An absurdity: By the time Barack Obama came to office, KSM was ready to go before a military commission, plead guilty and be executed.

In this article: Eric Holder, New York, Barack Obama, Charles Krauthammer, United States, Cross-examination, Miranda rights, and Jihad

...have but don't necessarily translate into influence over Baucus. "People never say, 'This is your guy,' " Messina said. "I'm Barack Obama's guy. I'm his deputy chief of staff in the White House." The senator agreed with that assessment...

In this article: Max Baucus, White House, Barack Obama, Carolyn McCarthy, Montana, Jon Tester, and Tax

...bank tax. The International Monetary Fund is studying the idea. LITTLE ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT But it has little support in the Obama administration. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday that he has "not seen a version of...

In this article: Tax, Nancy Pelosi, Wall Street, Unemployment, Timothy Geithner, John Larson, U.S., Troubled Asset Relief Program, Derivative, and House of Representatives

...far less restrictive limits on abortion coverage than the House version. In her interview with NPR , Pelosi also addressed President Obama 's deliberations on how to move forward with the war in Afghanistan , saying she had advised her...

In this article: Nancy Pelosi, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, and Catholic Church

David Cameron blames Mumsnet webchat delays on laptop Mr Cameron has taken part in Mumsnet chats before David Cameron has blamed laptop trouble after coming under fire during a live webchat on the Mumsnet website. The Tory leader...

In this article: David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Oatcake, Lib Dem, Ed Balls, Harriet Harman, The Thick of It, and BBC

WASHINGTON (AP) - From opposite ends of the globe, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder firmly rejected criticism Wednesday of the planned New York trial of the professed Sept. 11 mastermind and predicted Khalid Sheikh...

In this article: Eric Holder, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Barack Obama, Attorney General, New York, Michael Mukasey, Jon Kyl, Lindsey Graham, and Flight 93

...been determined. The actual transfer of the suspects to New York is still many weeks away. The transfers are a key step in President Barack Obama's pledge to close the detention center at Guantanamo , which currently houses some 215...

In this article: Eric Holder, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Detainee, Attorney General, New York, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Bay, United States, Defendant, and World Trade Center

...is sooooooo two weeks ago. Anti-abortion leader Randall Terry told his supporters that he 'd like to burn Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in effigy on Halloween. He said so in the below video. One of many questions after...

In this article: Nancy Pelosi, New Oxford American Dictionary, Randall Terry, Virginia, Halloween, and Harry Reid

...will make their leaders disappear before too long. Speaking at a forum in Argentina Tuesday, Peres said both Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have gone crazy over oil, which he says is not bad to sell but "really dangerous if you...

In this article: Shimon Peres, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Israel, Venezuela, Argentina, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Iran, Latin America, and Buenos Aires

...said she didn't have any candidates on her Chicago -based show during the campaign because of her support for President Barack Obama. Palin said she didn't feel snubbed and told Winfrey , "No offense to you, but it wasn't the center of my...

In this article: Sarah Palin, Barbara Walters, Barack Obama, David Letterman, John McCain, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Thanksgiving, and Chicago

...solution to the nuclear crisis. Tehran 's five-page letter amounts to a joke, a mockery of the West, a nose-thumbing at Barack Obama , the United States and the international community. This means that in the months to come, Obama will...

In this article: Iran, Uranium, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Barack Obama, Tehran, U.N., Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Bolton, United States, and Israel

...round up Democratic votes in the House to support a big increase in troops into Afghanistan. Her comments came as President Barack Obama said on Friday that his decision about how many troops to send to Afghanistan will come soon. In a...

In this article: Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Yukio Hatoyama, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and United States

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , a day after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that the West is 'not going to wait forever' for Iran to accept a UN -backed nuclear deal. posted November 01, 2009 at 10:46 am EST • A daily...

In this article: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Hillary Clinton, Uranium, The Guardian, IRNA, UN, Tehran, and US