Assad welcomes Russia-U.S. understanding, doubts West's intent...

WASHINGTON--U.S. industrial production fell in April as manufacturing output declined and more seasonal weather held down demand for utilities, the latest sign of slow economic growth. Industrial output decreased a seasonally adjusted 0.5% last ...

WASHINGTON (TheDeal) -- In Washington these days, the major players don't agree often -- and when they do it's only in the most narrow sense. That's the case with the core provision of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, the legislation enacted in ...

Here's the abstract and link to full piece You can download the piece here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm-abstract_id=2265124 China and the Middle-Income Trap: Toward a Post Washington, Post Beijing Consensus Over the last thirty years, ...

Conservation Compliance Agreement Garners Widespread Praise, Links Conservation Requirements to Crop Insurance Washington, DC - The Senate Agriculture Committee approved an historic conservation pact this week, requiring conservation compliance for ...

Consensus between Moscow and Washington is a myth, says opposition leader and chess player Garry Kasparov in his article in The Wall Street Journal. When US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Moscow on Tuesday to meet his Russian counterpart ...

Last October, senior Obama officials anonymously unveiled to the Washington Post their newly minted disposition matrix, a complex computer system that will be used to determine how a terrorist suspect will be disposed of: indefinite detention, ...

WASHINGTON - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday it would be up to the U.N. Security Council to decide whether to establish a no-fly zone inside Syria and said he backed the involvement of Russia and China in planned peace talks.

After years of false starts, Washington finally appears to be on the path to rewriting the nations immigration laws. The Senate Gang of Eight bill is holding its own in committee and is expected to hit the Senate floor in June. And in the House this ...

From Lalit K Jha Washington, May 18 (PTI) The Russian decision to supply advanced anti-ship missiles and the S-300 air defence system to Syria is unfortunate and would prolong the suffering of the people there, a top Pentagon official said. "It is ...