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Sen. Roland Burris refused to resign on Tuesday, rebuffing a call from the Senate's No. 2 Democrat who made it clear that the embattled Illinois lawmaker has little hope next year of winning the seat vacated by President Barack Obama.

"I told him that under the circumstances, I would resign," fellow Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin told reporters after an hour-long meeting with Burris. "He s...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior administration official says that President Barack Obama's likely third pick for Commerce secretary is former Washington Gov. Gary Locke.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement has not yet been made.

Locke was the nation's first Chinese-American governor when he served two terms in the Washington statehouse from 1997 to 200...

Israelis and Palestinians write another bloody chapter in their unending conflict and India and Pakistan are again in danger of violent relapse following a bout of terrorism, Harvey Sicherman writes for FPRI.

Addressing the American people as president for the first time on 20 January, Barack Obama declared that “America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.” T...

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President Barack Obama speaks about relief for Americans facing home foreclosure at Dobson High School in Mesa, Arizona February 18, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Lott

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama wants to slash America's ballooning deficit in half by 2013 by cutting spending on the Iraq war, eliminating wasteful public programs and raising taxes on the wealthy, an administrat...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Suspected Shiite gunmen killed two members of the rival Sunni Muslim sect Saturday in northwest Pakistan, police said, a day after a suicide bombing at a Shiite leader's funeral killed 36 and set off sectarian riots.

A string of sectarian attacks in recent months has undermined already deteriorating security in nuclear-armed, Muslim-majority Pakistan as it tr...

ISLAMABAD -- A suicide bomber attacked the funeral of a slain Shiite Muslim leader in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 28 people and triggering deadly rioting, officials said.

Rising sectarian attacks threaten to further destabilize nuclear-armed Pakistan just as it faces intense international pressure to crack down on Islamist militants.

Meanwhile, a top U.S. official said ...

Related Topics: WASHINGTON WASHINGTON (Map , News ) - With the first concerted federal program to subsidize high-speed Internet services in rural areas, the new economic stimulus package will create some jobs and could get hundreds of thousands of households online.

Yet there's some question whether the economy would be more energized by spending that money on other things.

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TRACY, Calif. - The Marine Corps says a 24-year-old graduate of West High School in Tracy has died in Afghanistan.

Sgt. Daniel Hansen was killed Saturday while supporting combat operations in Farah province, according to defense officials. His twin brother, Matthew, who also joined the Marines after graduating from h...