The U.S. general in charge of turning around the war in Afghanistan is likely to recommend significant changes to U.S. and NATO operations, military officials and others familiar with his forthcoming report said. Those changes could include additional U.S. troops despite political headwind against further expansion of the war.
The necktie, replete with Democratic donkeys, sailed toward Tom Davis, propelled in that direction by a very frustrated Henry Waxman.
After it landed, Davis remembers, both men cooled down and worked out “whatever it was.”
“You can have your tie,” the then-chairman of the House Oversight Committee groused to the panel’s senior Republican.
The U.S. diplomat pressing for implementation of U.N. sanctions intended to derail North Korea’s rogue nuclear weapons program said Thursday that he was off to “an unprecedented start” in getting governments to enforce the punishing new measures.
The Security Council imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea on June 12, strengthening an arms embargo and authorizing [...]
Activists disappointed that the Obama administration has not given immigration top billing are trying to yank the issue off the back burner by pressing ahead with lobbying and legislation plans they hope will reinvigorate reform efforts.
“We’re not going to just be chanting, ‘Yes we can! Yes we can!’” said Jorge Mujica, an immigration advocate in [...]
Congress wants to give the government a direct role in deciding how much executives on Wall Street are paid, after the nation’s biggest banks accepted billions in taxpayer money and still managed to distribute $1 million bonuses to thousands of employees.
The bill, which would give regulators nine months to hash out the details, would give [...]
Government subsidies for flights in and out of rural communities can reach up to thousands of dollars per passenger, and Congress is moving to increase the budget by almost 30 percent to keep those flights going next year.
Ely, in Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s state, leads the pack with a $4,500 per passenger subsidy, [...]
Social Security officials say they expect an even larger spike in new disability claims than they had expected, as aging, injured baby boomers tumble out of the work force and need income.
The wave of new applications comes just as officials were making progress in curbing a massive backlog of disability appeals cases, which has plagued [...]
A disabled woman won her legal battle Thursday to force British authorities to say whether her husband would be prosecuted if he helped her commit suicide.
Debbie Purdy, who has multiple sclerosis, said the ruling “gives me my life back.” The judgment is a defeat for those who argue that Britain’s law on assisted, already rarely [...]
Tens of thousands of unsafe or decaying bridges carrying 100 million drivers a day must wait for repairs because states are spending stimulus money on spans that are already in good shape or on easier projects like repaving roads, an Associated Press analysis shows.
States, however, have other plans.
Spain is prepared to boost its long-term troop presence in Afghanistan if conditions there require it, a Spanish official said Thursday.
An additional 450 peacekeeping troops are temporarily in Afghanistan to ensure secure elections. Those troops are due to return to Spain, but the spokesman said that 220 soldiers could then be deployed to Afghanistan to [...]
