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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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.