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US races to mollify Hamid Karzai over plans for peace talks with Taliban

Afghan president suspends long-term security talks with Americans amid anger over Taliban press conference in Qatar

The US was scrambling to salvage a plan to open peace talks with the Taliban on Wednesday amid a diplomatic row between Washington and the Afghan president Hamid Karzai over h

Obama's nuke deal won't make us safe

On Wednesday, President Obama took a meaningful step toward reshaping our nuclear arsenal in line with the reality of 21st-century security priorities.

Obama challenges Russia to agree to deeper nuclear weapon cuts

BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama used a speech in Berlin on Wednesday to call on Russia to revive the push for a world without nuclear weapons, offering to cut deployed nuclear arsenals by a third, but Moscow immediately poured scorn on his proposal.

Obama speech in Berlin looks to 'shared values' of iron curtain era

Fear of global annihilation has gone, US president tells Berliners, as he seeks 33% cut in Russian and American nuclear arms

He did not, everyone agreed, have the rhetorical punch of his predecessors.

Federal Reserve hints it could end stimulus program next year

Fed to continue bond-buying program for now but could ease off once unemployment falls to 7%, Ben Bernanke says

The US Federal Reserve has signalled that it will end its massive stimulus programme next year amid further signs of a split in the central bank's committee.

Obama Announces New Plans To Reduce Global Nuclear Weapons Stockpile

In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a historic symbol of the end of the Cold War, President Obama announced new plans to move towards reducing the American and global nuclear weapons stockpiles in order to reduce the risks these dangerous weapons pose to humanity as a who

Mark Zuckerberg"s FWD.us Releases New Pro-Immigration Ad

The immigration debate is heating up in Washington again as President Obama has asked Congress to put a bill on his desk before summer’s end. One of the largest proponents of immigration reform – Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.

U.S. House Wants 'Sustained Human Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars'

MarkWhittington writes "Politico reports in a June 18, 2013 story that House Republicans have added a Mars base to its demands for a lunar base in the draft 2013 NASA Authorization bill.

Analysis: Putin basks in isolation over Syria as Obama's charm falls flat

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland/MOSCOW (Reuters) - At the end of a tense two-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama - slumped over and serious - tried to lighten the mood with a joke about their favorite sports.

Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies Spencer Ackerman

Hastings was fearless and shook things up especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn't forgive him

My friend Michael Hastings died in Los Angeles on Tuesday. His death leaves a journalistic void, and not just the one created by the loss of a fearless reporter.