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By now, it is no secret that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was more than peeved with President Barack Obama’s May 18 proposal for Israel to retreat to pre-1967 lines. And while some have commended the move, others have condemned it.

Prominent Republicans have strongly criticized President Barack Obama’s proposal to redraw the map of Israel to pre-1967 borders, on the eve of talks between the US and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In advance of his White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday, President Barack Obama laid bare his peace plan proposal between Israel and Palestine.

Some prominent Israeli reporters who are accompanying the Egyptian Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his trip to Washington, has predicted a stormy meeting between him and the US President. Netanyahu and Obama are scheduled for talks at the White House on Friday.

The Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer unveiled an online tax calculator for New York City residents, announced Thursday.

The U.S. national debt hit $14.3 trillion, reaching its legal borrowing limit on Monday.

The European Union and United States are preparing to hit Syria's leaders with new sanctions as anti-government protesters are still facing a brutal crackdown.

Jailed IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is not in a position to run the International Monetary Fund, said Timothy Geithner, US Treasury Secretary.

After the talks with King Abdullah II of Jordan ahead of a full week of intense negotiation, Obama has guaranteed that he will call for a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict.

In his speech concerning the Middle East at the State Department this Thursday, President Barack Obama is expected to outline his vision for the future of a region in upheaval.

There are two carved-in-granite long-term economic trends; one of them being the decline of the dollar and the other one being war. I think those are locked in, and so I recommend people buy investments that do well during wartime or during periods of currency debasement, which we have.

Pakistan has agreed to return the tail of a U.S. helicopter that was damaged during the raid that brought an end to the terror leader Osama bin Laden earlier this month.

You’re competing against young people in Beijing and Mumbai. Those kids are hungry, they’re working hard and you’ll need to be prepared for it, president Barack Obama said to U.S. high school graduates.

Members of Obama's administration outlined their plans for cyber security.

George Mitchell, the special emissary to the Middle East has decided to resign after two years of effort to achieve peace in the Middle East.

The Libyan rebels met with U.S. officials at the White House on Friday, but the delegation failed to get recognition as the sole council to take over power.

The threat that the U.S. federal government won’t be able to pay all of its bills by its already extended Aug. 2 looms large, but Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has another warning: If the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling isn’t raised, seniors reliant on Social Security and Medicare are to be worried about.

Judicial Watch, a Washington D.C.-based conservative public interest group, announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense after the group said the government agency would not comply with their Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking the release of images following Osama bin Laden's death.

U.S. Navy SEALs found a 'huge' and 'fairly extensive' stash of pornography in a wooden box in Osama bin Laden's bedroom, U.S. officials have said.

U.S. officials have spoken to Osama bin Laden’s widows in Pakistan, the White House has confirmed.

Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell is resigning after two years of mediating peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis which have stalled and amid ongoing tensions which led to clashes on Friday throughout the West Bank.