Key Issue in Mideast Talks: How Do You Define 'Settlement'?
Sebastian Scheiner, AP
WASHINGTON (Sept. 1) -- Neighborhoods. Colonies. Facts on the ground. Suburbs. Unauthorized outposts. Jerusalem. Whatever you call Jewish areas outside of Israel's 1967 border, the peace talks...
Top Envoy Cites Iran Threat Before Peace Talks
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WASHINGTON (Aug. 31) -- The latest peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority may be most noticeable for who won't be there but will be on everyone's mind: Iran. The nuclear wannabe...
Ahead of Peace Talks, Envoys Offer Differing Views
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WASHINGTON (Aug. 31) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are on their way to Washington for the first Middle East peace talks since 2008, but their...
Analysis: Obama 'Resigned' to Being Wartime President
Olivier Douliery, Abaca Press / MCT
WASHINGTON (Aug. 31) -- When President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Oval Office tonight to announce the formal end of combat in Iraq, he will sit where another Democratic commander in...
Tea Party Guide to DC: Stick to 'Safe' Parts of City
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WASHINGTON (Aug. 23) -- Residents of the nation's capital -- those "inside the Beltway" types -- are used to being dissed by the rest of the country whose representatives, unlike them, get to vote...
Will New Israel-Palestinian Peace Talks Work?
Mark Wilson, Getty Images
WASHINGTON (Aug. 20) -- Why are these Middle East peace talks different from all other peace talks? Good question. After a nearly two-year hiatus in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians,...
Analysis: Is Anti-Muslim Fervor Just Latest Fear?
Chris Hondros, Getty Images
WASHINGTON (Aug. 19) -- Are Muslims the new Jews? Or Irish Catholics? Perhaps Mormons? Or are they really the war on terror's Japanese? Religious experts and historians say: all of the above. The...
In Iraq, the World's Biggest Embassy Isn't Big Enough
Ahmad Al-Rubaye, AFP / Getty Images
WASHINGTON (Aug. 19) -- As the U.S. war footing in Iraq officially ends, officials say the world's largest embassy -- the U.S. mission in Baghdad -- isn't big enough to support peacetime diplomacy on...
What Would Bush Do About the Ground Zero Mosque?
Doug Mills, AP
WASHINGTON (Aug. 17) -- The political battle over plans to build an Islamic center two blocks from ground zero is reaching biblical proportions as Republicans pummel President Barack Obama and...
Gates Faces a Ton of Work Before He Leaves Pentagon
Susan Walsh, AP
WASHINGTON (Aug. 16) -- Robert Gates has a lot on his to-do list: Wind down two wars. Trim a bloated budget. Push through a nuclear treaty. End the ban on openly gay service members. And convince...
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Hits Lesbians Hardest
WASHINGTON (Aug. 16) -- The military is throwing out women disproportionately under its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, even as the number of service members discharged for being gay reached a new...
The Few. The Proud. The New Marines?
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WASHINGTON (Aug. 13) -- Declaring "the maritime soul of the Marine Corps" is at stake, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered a review of the seaborne service that since 9/11 has functioned more...
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