WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday that "extremists and rejectionists" would not derail the relaunch of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations as he opened a peace summit shadowed by Middle East violence.
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FORT BLISS, Texas (Reuters) - President Barack Obama declared the U.S. combat mission in Iraq officially over on Tuesday but said he would not take a "victory lap" because a lot more work remained to be done inside the country.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden flew into Iraq Monday to assure Iraqis the United States is not abandoning them as it stops combat operations, a milestone in the 7-1/2 year war the Obama administration is trying to end.
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Plans by the conservative Tea Party movement for a huge weekend rally at the site and on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's historic "I Have a Dream" speech have drawn fire from the civil rights movement.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Former President Jimmy Carter met North Korea's nominal head of state on Wednesday after touching down in Pyongyang for a private visit to win the release of an American jailed in the reclusive country.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Representative Kendrick Meek won Florida's Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday and will square off against Governor Charlie Crist and conservative Republican Marco Rubio in the closely watched November 2 election.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A district court issued a preliminary injunction on Monday stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, in a slap to the Obama administration's new guidelines on the sensitive issue.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday he is pressing Iraq's leaders to settle their differences and form a government, almost six months after the country's election and a week before the scheduled end of the U.S. combat mission.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has vowed renewed efforts to combat corruption, a major bone of contention with Washington as its troops battle Taliban insurgents, U.S. Senator John Kerry said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the U.S. Senate to pass a stalled small business lending bill, saying recent weak economic data underscores even more the need for the legislation.
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