McCain and Sen. Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, said the U.S. public needs to be told more clearly and realistically the difficult challenges in Iraq.
Human Rights Watch has asked Washington to explain intelligence failure that led to the killing of 15 children in two recent attacks by American forces in Afghanistan.
The US steel industry has urged the Bush Administration to defy the WTO ruling and continue protection for it despite the certainty that the EU and other countries may retaliate if the US does not comply.
US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz got a taste of the mood among a section of the population when he paid a visit to Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
It struck down key elements of the administration policy to hold enemy combatants or suspected terrorists indefinitely.
A majority of those polled still say the US did the right thing in taking military action against Iraq while 31 per cent thought otherwise, the poll by Newsweek shows.
'It was international diplomacy led by the US that went to the task of talking to these two nations,' he said.
The US deputy secretary of state said the Bush administration would 'go as far up the chain of command as necessary' to punish the guilty.\n\n
A United States steelmaker has asked the Bush administration to restrict imports of the product from India, contending that the industry here was being 'seriously injured' as a result of increasing imports.
Bush administration 'ignoring' international law in treatment of detainees, especially children, at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba
It is time for the Congress and the Bush administration to recognise the importance India plays in the region and the world, the Democratic Congressman said.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha on Friday night for a general exchange of views ahead of a visit next week by a top Bush administration official to India.
Asserting that there has been no change in its visa policy on Narendra Modi, the United States on Thursday said the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate is welcome to apply for a visa and wait for a review which will be grounded in American law.
In perhaps the first explanation of the US denial of visa for Narendra Modi, the Obama Administration on Thursday said the decision was taken by the "previous" government.
The road ahead will be long and winding and much resistance can be expected from the high-flying 'hawks' in our skies. But that should not deter the policymakers from planning a road map with the 'big picture' in mind, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Born to Zerin Rao anchooling fd Jehangir Narioshang Rao, both Parsi physicians from India, Rao grew up in Michigan and did her srom Detroit High School. She is married to Alan Lefkowitz and the couple has two children.
In "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership", James Comey will "explore what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions", according to Pan Macmillan, which has acquired the publishing rights in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth excluding Canada.
The withdrawal will take effect on December 31, 2018. The US will remain a full member of the Paris-based UNESCO until then.
The United States senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of James Coney, a former Bush Administration official, as the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Coney, who was confirmed by 93-1 votes by the senate replaces, Robert Muller as the FBI director who served in this position for a decade.
United States President Donald Trump remarks on Monday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought his mediation on the Kashmir issue will "damage" the Indo-US relations, ex-diplomats said.
World soccer's governing body FIFA has hired a former New York prosecutor to represent it as senior officials face bribery and corruption charges in a US court, a person familiar with the matter said.
A former top American diplomat, considered to be the architect of the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, on Friday urged US President Barack Obama to reach out to India's prime minister-designate Narendra Modi for an early meeting.
'Biden's promise of returning to 'normalcy' after Trump appears to mean that the same old politicians, who are responsible for the 'endless wars' in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, are being brought out of the woodwork after four years,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'Flattering press, nice photos, no major gaffes.' 'Both sides will be very happy as they are clearly measuring 'success' by a different yardstick than the world used in the past.'
The US president puts Pyongyang back on list of state sponsors of terrorism for first time since 2008.
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