China has warned that ties with the US would be undermined if US President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama.There is speculation that Mr Obama will meet the Tibetan spiritual leader in Washington lat   Read more >>

BEIJING – China suspended military exchanges with the United States, threatened unprecedented sanctions against American defense companies and warned Saturday that cooperation would suffer aft   Read more >>

Fewer respondents believe that their president inspires hope and has made progress in bringing change to America.As Barack Obama marks his first anniversary as president, only three-in-ten Americans   Read more >>

Things look bad now, and the party will lose seats this fall. But the economy will bounce back, Democrats will be united—and faith in government can be restored.Democrats win elections by conv   Read more >>

The girl whose cheeky request for a kiss from Prince William prompted a mention in his farewell speech in Australia can be revealed as 15-year-old schoolgirl Victoria Downie.Her photograph appeared   Read more >>

The Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department n   Read more >>

Professor Mohammadi was killed as he was leaving his home, media say

The US has dismissed allegations by Iran that American and Israeli agents were responsible for the killing of a physics professor   Read more >>

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America, barely edging out former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll out Wednesday.When Gallup asked 1,025   Read more >>

Mr. Obama said the GOP was fixated on the unemployment rate as Congress enters a midterm-election season, saying Republicans "seem to be almost rooting against recovery," according to two aides br   Read more >>

A US bank has been held up by an armed man dressed as a Santa Claus.According to Metropolitan Nashville Police, a man wearing a Santa Claus suit - including hat, beard and moustache and dark sunglas   Read more >>

Former President Bill Clinton came within minutes of being assassinated in the Philippines by terrorists controlled by Osama bin Laden, a new book has revealed.The US leader was saved shortly before   Read more >>

Muslim men who force their wives to wear a burkha are not welcome in France, the justice minister said yesterday.Michele Alliot-Marie said husbands who make their wives wear a full body covering do n   Read more >>

Did Sarah Palin leave Hawaii because there were too many Asians? In the New Yorker review of "Going Rogue," Sam Tanenhaus writes that Palin's father suggested as much to the reporters who wrote "Sa   Read more >>

In a radio appearance Thursday, former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said questions about President Obama's birth certificate -- a spurious attempt to argue that he'   Read more >>

WEST POINT, N.Y. – In a room full of young Army cadets at the nation’s oldest military academy Tuesday night, President Barack Obama took ownership of the Afghanistan war.Obama announced   Read more >>

In an interview with the Politico, former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Obama over Afghanistan -- and also insisted that the Bush administration is not responsible for the situation   Read more >>

The new document arms Democrats with an economical response to the contention of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

A new analysis by a leading MIT economist provides new ammunition for Democra   Read more >>

Lakewood, Washington (CNN) -- A shooter who killed four police officers Sunday in a coffee shop outside Tacoma, Washington, may have sustained a gunshot wound from one of the victims before he fled   Read more >>

In a little-noticed blog post published on the White House website in September, President Obama's special counsel for ethics and government reform Norm Eisen announced that the administration no l   Read more >>

President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed Tuesday to team up and tackle a checklist of economic, nuclear, security and environmental challenges.Obama welcomed the Indian leader   Read more >>