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WASHINGTON  When Barack Obama was elected to the Senate in 2004, he received a congratulatory note from the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Richard Lugar's outreach to the up-and-coming Democrat helped give Obama the foreign relatio…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption President Donald Trump promised to 'never surrender American sovereignty to anyone' US president Donald Trump has said he will withdraw the US from the international Arms Trade Treaty. The agreement, signed by Barack Obama …

President Trump chose the backdrop of the National Rifle Associations leadership forum to announce his latest blow to multilateral institutions. In a speech to the pro-gun group in Indianapolis, President Trump announced he would pull the United States out of…

With more than 13,000 comments, beginning in 2008, Mr. Eisenberg became a cult figure. A former editorial page director called him the closest thing this paper has to a poet in residence. Mr. Eisenberg was a biomedical electrical engineer by day who wrote sc…

Joe Biden is officially running for president in 2020, and from the looks of his first day in the race it's going to be a long, awkward journey. As you may remember, Biden served as Barack Obama's vice president for eight years, and the two men were exceptio…

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Democratic presidential hopeful John Delaney wants to hit President Donald Trump where it hurts — his Twitter following. In a Wednesday tweet, Delaney called for everyone to unfollow the president, as part of a broader campaign against the White House’s Twitt…

LONDON Britain plans to welcome President Trump in June with the formality of a state visit, Buckingham Palace announced on Tuesday, two and a half years after first extending the invitation. Prime Minister Theresa May conveyed the invitation for a state vis…

On Easter Sunday, eight bombs went off across Sri Lanka, killing at least 207 people including 35 foreigners. The attacks targeted churches and luxury hotels. People attending Easter services in churches in Kochchikade, Negombo, and Batticaloa were targete…

WASHINGTON - Sen. Mitt Romney says he's "sickened" by the dishonesty the Russia investigation found in the Trump White House, but the president fires back that Romney should have put the same energy into running for president in 2012 that the Utah Republican …