What happened to Obama?

By David Suissa
Published on May 20, 2013

You know things are getting rough for President Barack Obama when even The New Yorker, that bastion of liberal thought, starts ridiculing him. Reacting to how the president is distancing himself from his administration’s three emerging scandals—the mishandling of the embassy attack at Benghazi, the targeting of a right-wing group by the IRS and press snooping by the Department of Justice -- the magazine’s resident humorist, Andy Borowitz, wrote a post on its Web site titled, “Obama Denies Role in Government.”

Is Obama George W. — or even Nixon? The secrecy factor

Published on May 14, 2013

The Obama administration has in recent weeks suffered a 1-2-3 scandal outbreak.

Senate panel sets Tuesday vote on Hagel nomination

Published on February 11, 2013

A U.S. Senate panel plans to vote on Tuesday afternoon on the bitterly contested nomination of Chuck Hagel as President Barack Obama's new secretary of defense, the committee said on Monday.

Yemeni security forces on highest alert after Al-Qa’ida targets U.S. ambassador

Published on January 7, 2013

Yemeni and US embassy officials went on high alert recently after Al-Qa'ida offered a bounty to kill US ambassador to Sana'a Gerald Feierstein or any American soldier in the country.

Obama to nominate Kerry for sec. of state

Published on December 21, 2012

President Obama is set to nominate Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) as secretary of state.

Rice pulls name from State Dept. bid

Published on December 13, 2012

Susan Rice, the front-runner to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as U.S. secretary of state, dropped her bid for the post.

Lieberman: No problem with Rice

Published on November 29, 2012

Departing U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman said he would not object to the nomination of Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, as secretary of state.

Clinton forms panel to investigate Benghazi attack

Published on September 20, 2012

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday she was forming a panel to investigate the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. officials.

Media misled in anti-Islam filmmaker story

By Tom Tugend
Published on September 12, 2012

Reform leader, Jewish groups condemn Libya attack on U.S. envoys

Published on September 12, 2012

A top Reform rabbi appeared with Libya's U.S. ambassador and Muslim and Christian leaders condemning the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya and the U.S. Embassy in Egypt, along with the anti-Muslim film that allegedly incited the violence.

Slain U.S. Ambassador Stevens helped nurture Libyan democracy

Published on September 12, 2012

Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in the Libyan city Benghazi, was deeply involved in the transition of the North African state and had been U.S. envoy to the rebels who overthrew strongman Muammar Gadhafi last year.

U.S. envoy to Libya killed over anti-Muslim movie

Published on September 12, 2012

The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other American diplomats were killed, and the U.S. embassy in Cairo was attacked over an anti-Muslim movie.

Gadhafi: "We will show no mercy and no pity to them"

Published on March 17, 2011

Muammar Gadhafi told Libyan rebels on Thursday his armed forces were coming to their capital Benghazi tonight and would not show any mercy to fighters who resisted them. In a radio address, he told Benghazi residents that soldiers would search every house in the city and people who had no arms had no reason to fear.