My honeymoon with the Democrats has long since passed. Our relationship has turned sour, and I’m in no mood to marry again Anyone who has ever gone through a divorce or marital separation knows how traumatic it can be

Keep America Safe group draws backlash after dubbing lawyers who defended terrorist suspects ‘al-Qaida seven’ Not long after the Twin Towers fell, Dick Cheney declared the death of more than two centuries of American tradition.

I’ve been looking for this for a few days, and finally I found it. It’s a study, by the Urban Institute, of number of uninsured by congressional district. Open it up and have a look, especially Exhibit 1 on page 4 of the pdf (the map in green)

Intentional or not, the announcement of new settlements in East Jerusalem may push the US into a tougher stance towards Israel It’s not the first time that Israel has stiffed Barack Obama over his attempts to kick-start Middle East peace negotiations. But the sudden, highly inflammatory announcement of plans to build an additional 1,600 homes in occupied East Jerusalem , in the midst of a visit to Israel of US vice-president Joe Biden, was certainly the most brutally contemptuous rebuff so far to American peacemaking.

In talks with Binyamin Netanyahu, US vice-president stresses need to prevent Iran obtaining nuclear weapons The US vice-president, Joe Biden, promised the Israeli government today that it had the strong support of Washington and said the US was committed to preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. “There is no space between the US and Israel when it comes to Israel’s security,” Biden said, after meeting the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem. Their talks appeared to focus on Iran and its nuclear ambitions, rather than on the new round of low-key, indirect peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians that was agreed yesterday.

Officials who identified American detainee as being Islamic convert Adam Gadahn now say they made a mistake Pakistani intelligence officials today denied that an American militant suspect arrested in Karachi was al-Qaida’s US-born spokesman. Yesterday two intelligence officers and a senior government official identified the detained man as Adam Gadahn , a 31-year-old California-born convert to Islam who has appeared on videos threatening the west, including one that emerged earlier the same day.

Protecting the US president has presented the secret service with the greatest challenge in its history. But who wants to kill him? And how likely are they to succeed

Rather than risk a one-term presidency with more failures than victories, he has put foreign goals aside to focus on the domestic Weeks and months of non-stop mudslinging over healthcare have taken their toll on President Obama and placed his foreign policy agenda on the back burner.

US congressional panel’s resolution describing ‘genocide’ of Armenians could damage relations, warns Turkish PM Turkey’s prime minister warned of serious damage to US-Turkish relations today after a congressional committee approved a resolution describing the massacre of more than 1 million Armenians by the Ottoman empire during the first world war as genocide. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country had been accused of a crime it did not commit, adding that the resolution would hamper efforts by Turkey and Armenia to end a century of hostility .

Resolution describing first world war killings as genocide risks souring US relations with Turkey, warns Hillary Clinton The Obama administration has urged a US house of representatives committee to shelve a resolution describing as genocide the massacre of more than a million Armenians by the Ottoman empire during the first world war, in an effort to stave off conflict with Turkey. The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, yesterday warned a top congressman on the House foreign affairs committee that the resolution would ratchet up tensions with Turkey, a Nato ally with about 1,700 troops in Afghanistan, and could imperil the fragile reconciliation process between Turkey and Armenia. The intervention, announced by the White House today, came as an official in Ankara suggested that Turkey could recall its ambassador to Washington if the US recognised the killings nine decades ago as genocide