Jack Reed

Barack Obama, riding a message of change, swept aside a Democratic dynasty and two centuries of history Wednesday to become the first African American to lead a major political party into the fall campaign for the White House. The vote was by acclamation...

by Mike Dorning Sen. Barack Obama will be joined on his planned trip this summer to Iraq and Afghanistan by two fellow senators who have been critical of the war in Iraq, one of them a moderate Republican Vietnam War......

By John McCormick WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama landed in war-torn Afghanistan early Saturday, his campaign confirmed, starting a weeklong effort to look presidential on the world stage while boosting his standing back home. The stop is the first of.......

So, Obama, after a stopover to visit with troops and play some hoops in Kuwait, has now landed in Afghanistan, which apparently will precede Iraq on his foreign trip over the next week. A couple of good things have......

by Liz Sly BAGHDAD - Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Baghdad on Monday for a firsthand look at conditions on the ground in Iraq as part of a tour of the Middle East and Europe designed to burnish his foreign-policy......

by Liz Sly BAGHDAD -- No one disputes that Baghdad is calmer, but Iraqi opinions are deeply divided over whether the lull means it is safe to start contemplating a withdrawal of U.S. forces -- a debate that intensified ahead......

by Kim Barker KABUL, Afghanistan -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai for almost two hours Sunday in a friendly discussion that addressed some of the troubled country's challenges but avoided...

by Mark Silva Never mind Joe Biden's suggestion that he isn't "the guy'' likely to make Barack Obama's presidential ticket. Geraldine Ferraro, who's been there before, said today that she got the call from Walter Mondale to serve as his......

by Frank James The conventional wisdom in Washington is that one reason the Bush Administration's proposal to buy toxic assets from financial institutions failed in the House earlier this week is because of bad marketing. The administration allowed the...

by Mark Silva So it is the Senate that goes first with the bailout -- some call it rescue -- of the nation's bad-mortgage-clogged banking institutions, with a vote tonight of 74-25. The Senate's strong and bipartisan approval of a......

by Mark Silva Sen. Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, would have made a fine Secretary of State - and is among those whom President-elect Barack Obama has courted across party lines in his bid for an inclusive government. But Lugar......

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon announced yesterday that 43,000 National Guard and Reserve support troops will begin replacing U.S. forces in Iraq early next year and that most of those part-time soldiers will be called to duty within 30 days. One unit from...