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The Jerusalem Post reports that President Obama has appointed Robert Ford to the position of US Ambassador to Syria. Syria is listed by the State Department as a sponsor of Terrorism, and the US has not had an ambassador there since 2005, when Pre…

Americans say they most admired President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2010, according to an annual USA Today/Gallup survey released Monday. Obama is Americans’ most admired man for the third consecutive year, ge…

The Medical Marijuana boom that set towns scrambling to deal with a surge of pot shops and left state lawmakers wondering how to fix the citizen-approved initiative was chosen by members of The Associated Press as the top news story in Montana for…

North Korea's official news agency blasted the incoming chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee -- while mistaking her for a chairman. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), a Cuban immigrant, has been a regular target of dictator Fidel Ca…

The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler, who's spent 9 years at the State Department as the paper's diplomatic correspondent, is shifting roles to become a columnist with a political focus, a source close to the paper said today. He's over to start …

Last week, Republican members who had pledged to support the Fiscal Year 2011 Omnibus Appropriations Bill changed their minds and chose instead to walk in lockstep with the House and Senate Republican leaders who believe that freezing spending a…

Outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said Wednesday she is, "very, very proud of the work that was accomplished by this Congress." Pelosi spoke to reporters just before the House was set to pass the 9/11 First Responders Healt…

Twice within four days, my name has popped up in the Bush-era secret cables uncovered by Wikileaks. Lucky me. Though nowhere near as earth-shattering as the uncovering of American misdeeds in Iraq and Afghanistan, these classified cables provide…