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  • Obama administration officials threatened whistle-blowers on Benghazi, lawyer says

    Published April 29, 2013

    At least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained lawyers as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attacks to Congress, Fox News has learned, and an attorney for one of the employees says some consider themselves whistle-blowers who have been threatened by unnamed Obama administration officials.

  • Four years out of office, George W. Bush grows in Americans' esteem

    Published April 24, 2013

    As Bush prepares to attend the dedication of his presidential library in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, his increasing approval generally mirrors that of other former presidents, but Bush's turnaround is remarkable, given how low the numbers were when he left office. 

  • Former administration insider skewers Obama national security team

    Published March 12, 2013

    A forthcoming book by ex-foreign policy aide Vali Nasr portrays an administration riven with infighting, describing a president whose decisions "from start to finish were guided by politics."

  • Kerry at mid-point: new conductor, same dissonant orchestra

    Published March 01, 2013

    Aides to Secretary of State John Kerry had billed the moment as a dramatic shift in U.S. policy, a major event that would in part define Kerry’s maiden overseas voyage as America’s top diplomat: his first face-to-face meeting, in Rome, with Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib, chairman of the Syrian Opposition Council.

  • State Dept. scrambles to salvage Kerry's meeting with Syrian rebel coalition

    Published February 24, 2013

    As Secretary of State John Kerry winged his way across the Atlantic on the first leg of his first overseas trip as America's top diplomat, his aides were scrambling on several continents to salvage one of the trip's most critical and eagerly-awaited sessions.

  • Hagel omitted two speeches on Middle East from Senate disclosure forms

    Published February 12, 2013

    In the supporting documents he turned over to Senate investigators as part of his confirmation process, Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel did not disclose at least two recent speeches on the subject of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Fox News has learned.

  • Nearly 800,000 refugees flee fighting in Syria, US officials say

    Published February 06, 2013

    Nearly 800,000 Syrian citizens -- the vast majority of them women and children -- have fled the bloody two-year civil war there, State Department officials said Wednesday. More than a third of that total, the officials added, left the country within the last five weeks.

  • Economy, expiration of stimulus taking 'toll' on union membership

    Published January 28, 2013

    Figures released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics last week showed that union membership in 2012 declined by 400,000 people -- a contraction of nearly 3 percent, and the fifth consecutive year the ranks of the rank-and-file have shrunk. Overall, union membership in America stands at 11.3 percent, the lowest level since World War II.

  • Obama, Biden gun control proposals assailed as 'light' on Hollywood, gaming industry

    Published January 17, 2013

    In the days following last month’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.,  President Obama promised to convene a broad national dialogue about the causes of gun violence. But in the proposals that the president put forward on Wednesday, selected from a range of options prepared for him by Vice President Biden, critics noticed what they considered to be a large hole.

  • Withdrawal looming, US and Karzai redefine their alliance -- again

    Published January 09, 2013

    As Hamid Karzai embarks on the usual round of meetings in Washington this week, his presence sparks little fanfare. To some extent, this is the inevitable by-product of familiarity. Yet it also reflects Americans’ weariness with what has become a classic alliance: messy, fractious, scarcely satisfactory to Washington -- and worlds better than the alternative.