Under President George W. Bush, the President's Daily Brief -- the highly classified intelligence paper delivered each morning to the White House -- rose to "an unprecedented level of importance," with negative consequences for the intelligence community, according to a new study by the Brookings...

Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key administration posts.

Czechs feel betrayed, Poles irked, Romanians slighted. Ask them who's to blame, and the answer may come as a surprise: President Barack Obama. George W. Bush fawned over Eastern Europe, and its leaders rushed to joinhis post-9/11 "coalition of the willing."

In this Sunday, April 5, 2009 file photo US President Barack Obama delivers a public speech to thousands of people on the Hradcany Square in Prague, Czech Republic. Broadly speaking, Obama is still admired by many ordinary Eastern Europeans.

Czechs feel betrayed, Poles irked, Romanians slighted. Ask them who's to blame, and the answer may come as a surprise: President Barack Obama.

Czechs feel betrayed, Poles irked, Romanians slighted. Ask them who's to blame, and the answer may come as a surprise: President Barack Obama. George W. Bush fawned over Eastern Europe, and its leaders rushed to join his post-9/11 "coalition of the willing."

The former Cork Examiner journalist who has been appointed the US Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland by Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, was in Belfast this afternoon.

John J. Sweeney will step down as president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. this week, having failed to expand labor’s ranks, but transforming it into a political power.

When Irvin Rosenfeld, 56, picks me up at the Fort Lauderdale airport, his SUV reeks of marijuana. The vice president for sales at a local brokerage firm, Rosenfeld has been smoking 10 to 12 marijuana cigarettes a day for 38 years, he says.