For Afghanistan’s Karzai, funding tops NATO summit agenda
The Afghan president, who hasn't been shy about criticizing the West, is turning on the charm as the mission winds down and long-term aid is in question.KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai, perhaps best known in the West for periodic well-aimed jabs at his NATO allies, is embarking on a determined charm offensive as he faces the prospect of seeing troops and, perhaps even more crucially, dollars slip away from his country.
NATO and G-8 summits allow Obama to showcase foreign policy
His status as a world leader, rather than the slow economic recovery, will be in the spotlight.WASHINGTON — Whatever else they achieve, back-to-back summits of world leaders this weekend hosted by President Obama will showcase the perks of incumbency. An American president with sagging approval ratings on the top campaign issue — the anemic economic recovery — will stand in the spotlight as a seasoned world leader.
Video: Romney releases ad: “What I’d do on day one”
CBS News political director John Dickerson was joined Friday by the Huffington Post's Jon Ward, USA Today's Jackie Kucinich and the Washington Post's Karen Tumulty for a discussion on a new ad released by the Romney campaign on what he'd do on his first day as president.Arizona official: It’s ‘possible’ Obama won’t make ballot
WASHINGTON -- In a revival of the controversy surrounding President Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate, a state official in Arizona says it’s “possible” that he’ll hold Obama’s name off the Arizona ballot if Hawaii officials don’t send him confirmation that the president was born there.
Biden on same-sex marriage: ‘We didn’t make it an issue’ [Video]
Vice President Joe Biden said he and President Obama are "in the same place" on same-sex marriage, just more than a week after his comments on the issue forced the president to hasten his public declaration of support.
Jurors get John Edwards case
The jury will begin deciding the fate of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards Friday, a day after closing arguments concluded in the corruption trial.Hollande visits Obama as France weighs new course
President Hollande's campaign promises are counter to U.S. policy on economy, Afghan war; Will face questions at G-8 Summit, NATO conferenceDo voters want moderates out of D.C.?
Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner drew a hard line in the sand this week, renewing a battle over the debt ceiling unless President Barack Obama agreed to significant budget cuts during what may be a lame-duck session after the November elections.Now it’s the jury’s turn in Edwards trial
Closing arguments concluded Thursday afternoon in the corruption trial of John Edwards, after his defense team rested its case without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify.Romney: Rev. Wright ads ‘the wrong course for a PAC or a campaign’
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mitt Romney said Thursday that he did not approve of a proposal for a racially-tinged ad campaign from an outside group that considered invoking controversial comments of President Obama’s former pastor, telling reporters he wanted to “make it very clear I repudiate that effort.”