[caption id="attachment_146991" align="alignright" width="152"] (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)[/caption] Our diplomacy is at work with respect to Iran, where, for the first time in a decade, weve halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material. President Obama,State of the Union address, Jan. 20, 2015 This ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senators are pushing to have a say about the ongoing international negotiations aimed at preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, a move they say will further destabilize an increasingly volatile Mideast. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is working on legislation that would allow Congress to weigh in by allowing it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says if Congress passes new sanctions on Iran, it will "all but guarantee" that delicate nuclear talks with Iran will fail. Obama is threatening to veto new sanctions. He says in his State of the Union address that if diplomacy fails because of new sanctions, it will alienate the U.S. from its allies and lead ...

[caption id="attachment_124786" align="alignright" width="160"] U.S. President Barack Obama answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, November 5, 2014.CREDIT: REUTERS/LARRY DOWNING[/caption] US President Barack Obama has once again threatened that he would use his veto power to thwart any bill that ...

President Barack Obama called on Congress to turn the page on an era of war and recession, as he laid out an expansive agenda for strengthening the middle class and sought to claim credit for Americas resurgent economy in a confident State of the Union address. Telling a packed chamber of the House of Representatives that middle class economics works,...