Jim Jones

by Peter Nicholas After weeks of speculation, President-elect Barack Obama formally will introduce Sen. Hillary Clinton as his nominee for Secretary of State at a news conference Monday morning in Chicago, according to a Democrat close to the New York.......

by Frank James President-elect Barack Obama is announcing his national security team this morning. There are no surprises, all are people whose names were leaked in recent weeks. They are: Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, selecting Defense.....

by Mark Silva and updated with transcript President-elect Barack Obama, confronting the question of the beleaguered economy and tense international challenges that he is facing, explained his approaches to both fronts in an interview aired by NBC's Meet...

by Frank James There was a so-called table-top exercise today at the White House in which senior officials of the incoming Obama Administration rehearsed their roles in the event of a national emergency. Details of the scenario weren't released by......

by Mark Silva Hand this to Robert Gibbs: He is new at the podium of the West Wing press briefing room. He was surprised to learn, today, that the press corps might want to hear a rundown of what President......

by Mark Silva With much of the world awaiting confirmation of hopes that a newly elected American president will set a new direction in relations with the United States, Vice President Joe Biden promised in Germany today "to set a......

by Mark Silva All the focus on President Barack Obama in his travels across Europe - and on the sideshows of the Michelle Obama-Queen Elizabeth II touch and Michelle Obama-Carla Bruni 'fashion smackdown' - has tended to overshadow the work......

by Christi Parsons and Laura King and updated repeatedly President Barack Obama made a surprise landing in Baghdad today to meet with American military forces, help award some medals of valor and make his first stand as president in the......

by Mark Silva Dan Choi, a gay National Guard platoon leader, faces discharge from the military -- with the Obama administration "quietly shelving the president's campaign promise to repeal the 16-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy with the tacit...

by Mark Silva Retired Marine Gen. Jim Jones, National Security Adviser to President Barack Obama, is "a Bono fan.'' Rahm Emanuel, making his second tour of duty in the West Wing of the White House, isn't about to publicly compare......

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 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...