Barack Obama

Countries pledge 40,000 U.N. peacekeepers at U.N. summit

U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Monday more than 50 countries have pledged some 40,000 peac...

Sep 28, 2015 10:27 PM EDT

China's Xi touts women's rights at United Nations, U.S. critical

China's President Xi Jinping told the United Nations on Sunday that all Chinese women have the oppor...

Sep 28, 2015 02:30 AM EDT

Clinton on email controversy: a 'drip, drip, drip' of revelations

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Sunday the politically damaging "drip, dri...

Sep 27, 2015 11:35 PM EDT

Italy's Berlusconi says Crimea split from Ukraine was democratic

Four-time Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Sunday the Crimean people had made a demo...

Sep 27, 2015 10:52 PM EDT

Pope of the people, and the politics, in historic U.S. visit

Pope Francis dove into some of the United States' thorniest political debates during his historic vi...

Sep 27, 2015 10:22 PM EDT

U.S. support for Syria rebels illegal, Putin says ahead of Obama meeting

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday branded U.S. support for rebel forces in Syria as illegal...

Sep 27, 2015 08:36 AM EDT

Feted in China, Xi's U.S. profile dims in shadow of pope

On Friday morning, Chinese President Xi Jinping enjoyed the symbolic high point of his first state v...

Sep 27, 2015 07:41 AM EDT

Under pressure from the right, House Speaker Boehner quits

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner will leave Congress at the end of October after s...

Sep 26, 2015 06:24 AM EDT

U.S. to make new diplomatic push on Syria, talk to Iran: officials

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will try to launch a new initiative for a political solution in S...

Sep 26, 2015 02:01 AM EDT

Obama announces 'understanding' with China's Xi on cyber theft but remains wary

President Barack Obama announced on Friday that he had reached a "common understanding" with Chinese...

Sep 26, 2015 01:41 AM EDT

In heated U.S. debate, immigrants get boost of pope power

In his first public words on his first trip to the United States, Pope Francis on Wednesday put hims...

Sep 23, 2015 07:13 PM EDT

Obama, in prison documentary: U.S. legal system has been 'unjust'

The United States has too long ignored the effect of high incarceration rates on minority and poor c...

Sep 22, 2015 06:02 PM EDT

White House seeks answers from China on U.S. woman detained in spy probe

The White House has contacted China's Foreign Ministry over the detention of an American businesswom...

Sep 22, 2015 05:54 PM EDT

Clinton breaks silence on Keystone pipeline, opposes it

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who has long avoided a firm position on the ...

Sep 22, 2015 05:49 PM EDT

U.S. tells China cyber espionage is more than an irritant, must stop

U.S. national security adviser Susan Rice issued a stern warning to China on Monday before President...

Sep 22, 2015 02:00 AM EDT

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