US issues fresh waiver to Pakistan for sale of defence equipment

JACK LEWS BIG TEST — POLITICO's Ben White and Kate Davidson: Jacob J. Lew is better known around Washington for budget negotiations than crisis management. But the soft-spoken Treasury secretary from the Bronx, N.Y., in office just three months ...

In Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, he ran to the left of Hillary Clinton as a moral reformer. Obama promised to transcend the old politics and bring a new era of hope-and-change transparency to Washington. Five years later, those vows are ...

First, the momentum for removing Barack Obama from the White House is increasing, particularly around the attack on 9/11 in Benghazi. On the talking heads shows over the weekend, they didn't air any interviews with administration officials to defend ...

ON STATE OF THE UNION talked to Candy about saying "clearly politics was at play" in the editing of the talking points after the attack and revelations that the for extra scrutiny: It is absolutely chilling that the IRS was singling out ...

(CBS News) Below is a transcript of "Face the Nation" on May 12, 2013, hosted by CBS News' Bob Schieffer. Guests include: Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Sens. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill., Amb. Thomas Pickering, and ...

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), who yesterday initiated legislation to ensure that future Accountability Review Boards are not controlled by the State Department, is now calling on the State Department Inspector General to ...

IN 2011, a group of American high-tech executives and angel investors traveled to North Africa as part of an innovative State Department economic development program. Local entrepreneurs flocked to workshops in Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, where ...

Secretary of State John Kerry (pictured) is off to a fast start in a job he has long coveted — travelling much more heavily than expected and tackling nearly every big, thorny foreign policy problem at once. In an around-the-world odyssey last ...

An interim report by House Republicans faults the State Department and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for security deficiencies at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, prior to last September's deadly terrorist attack ...