Ft. Campbell, Ky.
U.S. Special Operations officials used a scale model of Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani compound to brief President Obama on Friday, giving the commander-in-chief a detailed minute-by-minute account of how the …
Indianapolis, Ind.
On a swing through Indiana on Friday, Barack Obama made it clear that he still feels Americans’ gas price pain. Unlike his visit in April 2008, when he also commiserated with Hoosiers about rising costs at the pump, he didn’t blame George W. Bush or an energy policy drafted by Dick Cheney this time.
Another …
Mitt Romney won’t be at the first 2012 presidential debate Thursday night, even though he is the closest thing to the field’s frontrunner. “It’s still early, the field is too unsettled and he’s not yet an announced candidate,” says Romney aide Matt Rhodes, who is already effectively running the unofficial Romney campaign.
President Obama made no public remarks at Ground Zero. He carried a wreath of white flowers to a stand. Then he stood, head bowed for a time. Joining him were New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, …
In political journalism, we tend to divide the electorate into three categories, though the categories often go by different names. Right, middle, left. Republican, independent, Democratic. Conservative, moderate, liberal. Fox …
President Obama told CBS News Wednesday that he would not release the death photos of Osama bin Laden, grisly images that depict the terrorist leader with a major head wound. In an interview with 60 Minutes, set to be broadcast on Sunday, the President was asked if he saw the photos. “Yes,” Obama said. Then he was asked his reaction. “It …
A senior U.S. military official Monday credited President Obama for having a prominent role in pushing and shaping the plan to get Osama bin Laden. “In the final weeks and really months of this, his personal interest and …
Shortly after hearing confirmation on Sunday that Osama bin Laden was dead, President Barack Obama walked down to chief of staff Bill Daley’s West Wing office to discuss what he would say in his address to the nation.
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The people who gathered Sunday in the Situation Room know all about high-pressure situations. But this was something else. For 40 minutes, the President and his senior aides could do nothing but watch the video screens and listen …
Reuters’ Mark Hosenball is reporting that the U.S. special forces that raided Osama bin Laden’s compound Sunday were under orders to kill the terrorist leader, not capture him. But an administration official tells TIME that the report is not accurate.
“No U.S. forces go in and, if someone surrenders to them, will kill them,” the …
Jon Huntsman, it seems, knows how to make an entrance. He has timed his resignation as U.S. ambassador to China to coincide with the biggest social event on Washington D.C.’s political-media-entertainment calender, Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. For the first time since August of 2009, he will be freed from …
This is a tale of two Barack Obamas.
The first Barack Obama appears in December of 2007. It’s just a few days until the Iowa caucuses, and a shadowy third-party group with ties to John Edwards is about to start running ads, …
