Nuclear Policy

by Mark Silva The United States "will not stand for violations of international law,'' Susan Rice, the Obama administration's ambassador to the United Nations, said today, in the wake of a North Korean missile launch that flew in the face......

by Mark Silva It took the United Nations Security Council a little over a week to condemn North Korea's launch of a missile and agree to increase sanctions against Pyonyang, but the White says it's "pleased with what we got.''......

by Mark Silva The United States will take part in group talks with Iran about its suspect nuclear program, the Obama administration said today - a marked shift from the strategy of the Bush administration, which labeled Iran as part......

by Mark Silva Considering the fact that Iran is holding a young American journalist in jail, that Iran's leader refuses to accept the notion of two states for Israelis and Palestinians - indeed denies that the Holocaust even happened -......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama, calling North Korea's reported underground nuclear test a "matter of grave concern,'' said early today that not only this, but also the apparent testing of another short-range missile "warrants action by the...

by Mark Silva Storm warnings on the healthcare reform front: Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said today that President Barack Obama may lack the votes in the Senate necessary to push the healthcare reform he wants this summer. "Well to......

by Mark Silva A few months into the federal government's attempt to stimulate the economy, with unemployment at a 26-year-high of 9.5 percent in June, Vice President Joe Biden, the Obama administration's point-man on the stimulus program, allows that...

by Mark Silva It may not be the "reset button'' that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented her Russian counterpart earlier this year - a symbol of the need to start over again in relations between the United States and......

by Mark Silva Retired Army Gen. Colin Powell, who also once served as the chief diplomat for the United States, says Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could have averted the famed confrontation with the Cambridge, Mass., Police Department at......

by Mark Silva While maintaining that husband Bill Clinton's journey to North Korea to secure the release of two American journalists was "a private mission,'' apart from any consideration of nuclear proliferation, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says...

by John M. Glionna and Paul Richter and updated from Washington SEOUL -- Former President Bill Clinton arrived in North Korea today in a dramatic bid to negotiate the release of two American TV journalists sentenced to 12 years in......

by Christi Parsons NEW YORK -- In a sweeping call for international cooperation, President Obama this morning challenged world leaders to set aside "an almost reflexive anti-Americanism" and work together with him and other nations on common goals such...