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President Barack Obama is considering a scaled-down version of the war plan advanced by his top Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. officials say.
He's not president, a Cabinet member or ambassador, but Sen. John Kerry has ascended to the unofficial role of President Barack Obama's global adviser on key issues that could reshape the nation's image around the world.
Sen. John Kerry says President Barack Obama should wait until after the new Afghanistan presidential election is conducted before making his decision for the war.
The U.S. military says 14 Americans have been killed in a series of helicopter crashes in Afghanistan.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai needed high-level American arm-twisting over several tense days — and meals that included "gallons of tea" and endless platters of lamb — before he finally agreed to a run-off vote in the country's fraud-plagued presidential election.
Sen. John Kerry said Wednesday he would take up one of Sen. Edward Kennedy's key political fights, pledging to the thousands who attended his town hall meeting to push for the health care overhaul championed by his longtime Democratic colleague.
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry says after spending time with the family of his longtime colleague Edward Kennedy that "a very spiritual" vigil is taking place.
When you saw Ted Kennedy walk off the Senate floor, you inevitably thought of his long Senate career, his relentless political warfare against Republicans, his brushes with death and disaster, a
Sen. John Kerry and his daughter Vanessa are sporting his-and-her crutches.
A man who helped steal more than $100,000 from John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign has been sentenced to three years probation and home confinement.
It's not a wrap yet on Sen. John Kerry's plans to become a movie producer.
Sen. John Kerry has made it in politics. Now he wants to be a movie producer.
The Internal Revenue Service has filed a $819,848 tax lien against Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, but Kerry on Wednesday blamed IRS clerical error for the claim and said his campaign owes no tax penalties.
A former New Hampshire state legislator who processed checks for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign was sentenced Thursday to a year and a half in prison for stealing more than $100,000 of the money.
U.S. Senator John Kerry said Thursday that Sudan has agreed to allow some aid back into Darfur, more than a month after the Sudanese president expelled over a dozen aid groups from the region.
Mexico's government may be stretched thin but it's not on the brink of collapse in its bloody war with powerful, well-armed drug cartels, Sen. John Kerry said Monday during a hearing.
Sen. John Kerry has asked the Obama administration to grant asylum to a gay man who was forced to return to Brazil after he married a U.S. citizen in Massachusetts.
Sen. John Kerry said Wednesday that Syrian President Basher Assad told him last month in Damascus that Syria is prepared to resume peace negotiations with Israel and embrace a 2000 Arab initiative offering peace in exchange for territory captured from the Arabs in the 1967 Mideast war.
Sen. John Kerry says Syrian President Basher Assad told him last month in Damascus that Syria is prepared to resume peace negotiations with Israel and would offer peace in exchange for territory captured from the Arabs in the 1967 Mideast War.
Sen. John Kerry came to the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the highest-level visit by a U.S. official since the Hamas militant group seized power in the territory nearly two years ago.
U.S. Sen. John Kerry said after talks with Syria's president Saturday that there are possibilities for "real cooperation" between the two nations, which have been at odds for years.
Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, is planning to travel to Syria next week, where he will meet with President Bashar Assad.
Barack Obama has the presidency. John McCain has a framed photograph next to one of John Kerry at a rural northwest Kansas bank.
Sen. John Kerry says Secretary of State designee Hillary Rodham Clinton has done a "terrific" job fielding questions from senators.
As a young Navy swift boat commander in Vietnam, Sen. John Kerry was no stranger to the perils of hot pursuit in combat.
GOP's Graham steps out on a limb on climate changeWhen it comes to combating global warming, Sen. Lindsey Graham is right where he loves to be — ahead of the curve, in the mix on a major issue, at the table for high-level, bipartisan talks behind closed doors.
Senate panel approves Democratic climate billEnvironment and Public Works Committee on Thursday approved a Democratic climate change bill that would require industry to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.
Obama Waffles Some More On Afghanistan & Rush Nails Himthroughout the Iraq war, it was Barack Obama and the Democrat Party which actively sought the defeat of the U.S. military. They convened hearings and accused General Petraeus of lying.
Jon Stewart Blasts Dick Cheney for Dithering about AfganistanDick Cheney has been criticizing Obama for "dithering" a few weeks before he makes a decision on whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, but as it turns out, he and the Bush administration did not review their strategy in Afghanistan until they were packing up to leave th …
Cost of War in Afghanistan $229,453,573,956 and counting!
John Kerry: Too soon to commit to sending more troops to Afghanistan"Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), in an interview taped during his trip to Afghanistan this week, said that with the nation's presidential election still disputed, it's too soon to commit to General McChrystal's request to send more U.S.
Sean Hannity helps Jerome Corsi promote his black-helicopter 'New World Order' conspiracy theoriesexcerpt: "" Sean Hannity hosted not one but two whole segments last night devoted promoting the new book by Jerome Corsi -- godfather of the Swift-Boating of John Kerry -- titled America For Sale, which is basically an extended black-helicopter-style conspiracy tome straight ou …
Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation) CONVENTIONAL wisdom suggests that the prospect of Congress passing a comprehensive climate change bill soon is rapidly approaching zero. The divisions in our country on how to deal with climate change are deep.
The American Friends of Baluchistan has warned U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Glen Mullen and Foreign Relations Committee chair John F.
COLUMN-Catch-22 and the long war in AfghanistanListening to the protracted Washington debate over the war in Afghanistan, the phrase Catch-22 comes to mind. It was the title of a best-selling 1961 satirical novel on World War II by Joseph Heller and entered the popular lexicon to denote a conundrum without a winning solution.
Kerry blocks DeMint trip to Honduras excerpt: "" Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has blocked Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.) trip to Honduras slated to begin Friday, according to DeMint's office.
Testing Afghanistan AssumptionsThe challenge of making the right decision was dramatized recently by the grim disclosure that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, has warned that unless he gets more troops the eight-year war there "will likely result in failure."
Kerry Has 'Open-Ended' Invitation to Visit North Korea"Senator Kerry was extended an invitation contemporaneous to the negotiations over the release of the two journalists," Laura Ling and Euna Lee, said a spokesman for the lawmaker, Frederick Jones.
John Kerry: We Can't Ignore the Security Threat from Climate ChangeOn August 6, 2001, President George W. Bush famously received an intelligence briefing entitled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." Thirty-six days later, al Qaeda terrorists did just that.
US Wants Me Dead: Karadzic Jill Starr , bloomingdale: Aug 28 2009 United States : US Wants Me Dead: KaradzicKaradzic said the US envoy not to try him before the UN tribunal if he withdrew from public life. (Reuter)
Bush Official Admits Plot to Raise Phony Terror Scare to Steal Election Tom Ridge, the first secretary of homeland security, asserts in a new book that he was pressured by top advisers to President George W. Bush to raise the national threat level just before the 2004 election in what he suspected was an effort to influence the vote. Mr.
Ailing Kennedy wants seat to be filled quicklyA cancer-stricken Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has written a poignant letter to Massachusetts leaders asking that they change state law to allow a speedy replacement of him in Congress.
Fox News goes 10 for 10!Congratulations to everyone on the Fox News team. Obviously, it takes a total team effort to be the Leader on cable news. The best way Americans can honor the men and women serving overseas is to be informed about the issues confronting our country.
Quick-draw Sarah Palin takes long shot at John Kerry Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn't wait long to jab back at U.S. Sen. John Kerry for his joke this week that it was too bad she hadn't gone missing instead of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
Speaking to a group of business leaders, John Kerry was talking about the disappearance of Governor Sanford after claiming he had gone hiking on the Appalachian trail and no one really knowing of his whereabouts.
Sen. Kerry jokes: "Too bad Gov. Sarah Palin didn't go missing""Too bad,'' Kerry said, "if a governor had to go missing it couldn't have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.'' What class, Senator Kerry!
Obama's Southern Problem—And Ours"The New South," wrote journalist Robert Scheer in the 1970s, "is the Old South with air conditioning." Unfortunately, even 30 years of central home air hasn't cooled the white heat of the South.
Liberal Sexist Pigs - This year has been Misogyny Mania for liberals who claim to be "pro-woman." Brace yourselves, readers, because it's not over yet.
When the Thrill of Blogging Is Gone ... Blogs falling in an empty forest"HI, I'm Judy Nichols. Welcome to my rant."
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