Vice President Joe Biden gave a speech this afternoon celebrating the administration's push for new restrictions on gun ownership. Which is a little like an athlete stopping mid-race to say that he already considered himself a winner. While in sixth place.
The toy has been a thorn in the side of Mitt Romney ever since a senior aide first used its magical erasing properties to describe the campaign. Now the vice president and Ron Paul have joined the pile-on.
A Washington Post profile of Joe Biden calls him the Obama administration's "traveling everyman," and he's got a simple strategy to connect with every man (and woman) in the far-flung parts of America he visits: He'll figure out how he's related to them.
Hillary Clinton is already an odds-on favorite to run for president in 2016, if you take your odds from people like Maureen Dowd and Game Change authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived at the White House a little more than an hour ago and had a chat with Vice President Joe Biden before meeting with the president.
Joe Biden prides himself on his foreign policy experience, but one can't help but look at the scoreboard of foreign policy decisions Biden has gotten utterly wrong over the last 20 years.
In a candid admission that is both revealing of the inner circle of the White House — and designed to make the president look good — Joe Biden says that he, along with most of Barack Obama's senior advisers, told the president not to undertake the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.
The Weekly Standard drew attention Thursday to video of Vice President Biden discussing the outsourcing of call centers and briefly adopting an Indian accent.
It's really hard to get a real sense of the way the president delivered the State of the Union address without watching it, but the speeches are so long they're almost impossible to sit through.
The Gingriches add star power to the Kennedy Center honors, Alec Baldwin won't close the door on a New York City mayoral bid, and the NFL confirms Madonna will be performing at the Super Bowl halftime show.
The awkward process of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq was underscored by the violence and confusion during Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the country this week.
Vice President Joe Biden has landed in Baghdad for a surprise visit with departing American forces and Iraqi officials, stopping off on his way to Turkey and Greece.
Plus: Justin Bieber takes his paternity test, Diddy isn't changing his name, and the updated power structure at Conde Nast
Tickets for the vice president's $5,000-a-head fundraiser apparently could be had for less, Joy Behar is leaving HLN, and the Palace denies a new claim that Kate Middleton is pregnant.
France's first couple has a new baby girl, Joe Biden told an aggressive interview not to "screw around" with him, and the backstory to the latest Shia LaBeouf bar fight.
Plus: Mark Zuckerberg knows his showtunes
Today's message from Joe Biden is a bit pushy
The correspondence shows a rush to get loans approved before a Biden event
Plus: Former NYSE chairman Dick Grasso says he's 'seriously' considering running for mayor of New York City
Before Obama's speech, Boehner and Biden are caught talking golf on a hot mic
In an interview with Car and Driver, he recounts his bare-chested Onion alter-ego
On tour in the nation he challenges wrestlers, fires a few arrows, and names a horse
Biden's "noodle diplomacy" isn't overshadowing the money the U.S. owes China
Plus: Kim Kardashian's wedding has no time for your precious 'plus-one'
Reporters have tussled with security staff and Biden's blanched at eating intestines
Politico reports the Vice President accused conservatives of hijacking the debt limit
Flattery, shaded language, and lies are key
The office of Vice President Joe Biden is now tweeting as @VP
Boehner says deadline to raise debt ceiling is "artificial" as Kyl says the date is flexible
What's really going on? Maybe Cantor doesn't want to be the one raising taxes
"We've reached the point where the dynamic needs to change"
He'll order 10,000 troops out of Afghanistan now, and 20,000 more next year
Plus: British royals learn their new titles
Some Treasury accounting tricks will buy Congress a few more months to negotiate
Joe Biden eyed two other reporters before hiring the Washington Post's Shailagh Murray
Amazing shot shows top-level officials in the SItuation Room during the raid
The Obamas donated $254,000 to 33 charities
ABC News caught the vice president (and maybe a lady behind him) on tape
He especially disliked Vice President Joe Biden's pre-speech backslapping
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