Botched Attack Kills State Department Employee in Afghanistan
An assassination attempt in Afghanistan on Sunday resulted in the first death of a State Department employee since the war there began.
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It looks like the U.S. government will give serious thought this week to arming Syrian rebel groups, days after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces re-captured the key city of Qusair.
An assassination attempt in Afghanistan on Sunday resulted in the first death of a State Department employee since the war there began.
The Secretary of State made another unannounced visit to a country in the Middle East on Monday morning. This time he's in Afghanistan to try and make nice over with President Hamid Karzai, whose relationship with the U.S. has been contentious of late — and that's putting it nicely.
Secretary of State John Kerry made a surprise trip to Iraq on Sunday to urge Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to at the very least do something about the continued Iranian flights to Syria that go right through Iraq's airspace. Right now they're not doing very much.
John Kerry announced the U.S. will give $250 million to Egypt on Sunday as a reward for President Mohammad Morsi's pledges for economic reform. If his government actually succeeds at reforming the country's economy, the U.S. will give him close to $1 billion.
Barring any international intervention or rebel advancement, Bashar al-Assad will be the President for another year, at least, if Iran is to be believed. Their friendship will live on.
New Secretary of State John Kerry met with leaders of the Syria opposition today and pledged the United States to increased assistance for the rebels—but only the "nonlethal" kind.
Brand-new Secretary of State John Kerry gave a speech Tuesday proudly defending Americans' "right to be stupid" in front of the very people who are most likely to think Americans are stupid, Europeans.
Brown's surprise move not to run for Senate comes at a heavy price to his party: There is no good replacement, and even a closer race among Democratic candidates makes stealing Kerry's seat for Republicans look like a long shot now.
Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing to become the next Secretary of Defense did not go well, but if he fails to get the job, it won't be because of some deeply held foreign-policy principle. And the best evidence rests with one man: John McCain.
According to the Boston Globe, President Obama settled on Kerry for Secretary of State before, not after, Rice withdrew herself consideration.
While saying a long goodbye to his fellow Senators on the day his temporary replacement was announced, the soon-to-be Secretary of State choked up as he mentioned his predecessors from Massachusetts.
The CBS station in Boston is reporting that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has selected William "Mo" Cowan to occupy Senator John Kerry's seat once Kerry is sworn in as Secretary of State today. So who is the second black Senator?
America, you'll officially have a new Secretary of State within 24 hours. Who the heck is going to be your next Senator from Massachusetts — and the next one after that — remains as confusing as can be. Let's catch up on how the end of the Hillary era at Foggy Bottom might unfold, and fast.
John Kerry breezed through his chummy confirmation hearing Thursday, but what countries will he blaze through in his role as Secretary of State?
John Kerry's confirmation hearing to become the Secretary of State will be marked (if it's marked at all by history) as one of the friendliest that the Senate has ever seen. Here are the early highlights, with protestor.
Kerry's confirmation isn't likely to be that contentious, but it's going to be viewed in the light of whatever Clinton says the day prior, Kerry is almost certainly prepared to answer questions on how he'd make sure a similar failure never happens again.
Lost in the vetting gap between his run for president and his nomination as Secretary of State are his various investments, which now pose a challenge to Obama officials who need to make sure that Kerry's holdings don't conflict with his new job.
There are several key differences between President Obama's cabinet picks in 2009 and in 2013. This term there are more longtime Obama allies. This term he's showing more "confidence in his choices," picking fights with Republicans. And this term he's picking a lot of white males.
Newly retired Representative Barney Frank confirmed Friday morning his interest in temporarily filling John Kerry's soon-to-be abandoned Senate Seat — and said that he'd told Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick "I would now like, frankly, to do that."
Elizabeth Warren is in, and Scott Brown wants back in, but someone needs to step in for Kerry when he takes over for Hillary Clinton — and then there's going to be a special election. Here's a field guide as the 113th Congress convenes.
Scott Brown will soon be out of a job, and it's no real secret that he will become the leading contender — even with new competition — in a special election to fill John Kerry's soon-to-be vacant Senate seat. So why is he making all this stuff up?
As if the "Where's Hillary?" meme hadn't picked up enough conspiratorial steam, it appears some believe Kerry somehow might not get confirmed as Clinton's successor until GOP Senators successfully drag her to testify about the Benghazi attacks.
President Obama nominated Senator John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State today.
Frank wouldn't confirm or deny whether he would accept a short-term appointment to replace Sen. John Kerry, should Kerry be appointed Secretary of State, and before other candidates line up for a special election next spring.
In the (likely) event Kerry is picked to head Foggy Bottom, Massachusetts would hold a special election late next spring or early summer. We dissect the contenders — and their odds.
After Newtown, public figures have called not just for more gun control but to find a way to stop glamorizing violence. But some of the most prominent, most serious public figures in America — national politicians — have been glamorizing guns for decades.
The actor and newly celebrated director traveled to Washington and met with Senator John Kerry and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday, sending the Internet into a fit of speculation that he might be pushing for Kerry's seat.
Well, that took long. Just days after Susan Rice took her name out of the hat to be Secretary of State, there are rumors flying that John Kerry's appointment is pretty much a done deal.
It's got to be Kerry, right? Well, yes, probably. But speculation also puts some other options in front of the president between now and whenever Hillary Clinton steps down — including, but not limited to, her husband.
McCain's campaign to block Rice's appointment was as strange as it was successful. Here's a timeline of the big moments that forced Rice to withdraw her name from consideration for Secretary of State on Thursday afternoon — and probably now make John Kerry the frontrunner.
As Stewart points out, the only good thing to come of the UN disability vote was the moment when we got to see Senate rivals John McCain and John Kerry troll each other and maybe go a little too far with the jokes.
At a press conference late Monday morning, Sen. John McCain called Sen. John Kerry "Mr. Secretary" at a press conference, which was either wishful thinking or a Freudian slip.
Thanks to the political equivalent of a "come at me, bro" from the President yesterday, it looks like Susan Rice is one step closer to becoming the Secretary of State. And we haven't even heard from any Senators yet.
Though he was an early frontrunner to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, a new report says that Senator John Kerry could be tapped to run the Defense Department instead.
John Kerry's dream of becoming America's next top diplomat (i.e. Secretary of State) has become something of a reality show saga in recent weeks as a rotating cast of characters challenge his rise to the top.
Politico's Lois Romano wrote today that the 2012 presidential election has become a "battle for white men," because, "after decades of taking a back seat" to women and minorty voter. Now, exactly when were white guys being so ignored?
With Senator John Kerry's speech at the Democratic National Convention drawing closer by the minute and Hillary Clinton's retirement from government looming, reporters in Charlotte have once again fallen in love with one of Washington's worst-kept secrets: Kerry wants to be Secretary of State.
The comparisons between the 2012 and 2004 presidential elections are so pervasive they've wormed their way into the campaign's collective brain, so much so that John Kerry will play Mitt Romney in President Obama's debate prep, and Romney is considering a very John Edwardsesque running mate, Tim Pawlenty.
The Obama campaign hopes to turn Mitt Romney into the John Kerry of 2012 by November. In the meantime, it's turning John Kerry into Mitt Romney, asking the senator to stand in for Romney during President Obama's debate prep.
John Kerry and the New York Times are having a debate about journalism. It all started when Kerry was asked by CNN's Ted Barrett if he thought The Times should have held their story on President Obama's ordering cyberattacks against Iran's nuclear program "for national security reasons."
A series of emails between Arianna Huffington, her partners and the late conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart shed new light on the early days of The Huffington Post.
If Republicans get to talk about President Obama's ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Roland Martin said on CNN Thursday, then Democrats get to talk about how Mitt Romney's Mormon church used to be racist, so there. Could there be a perfectly calibrated rulebook regulating the precise tit-for-tat between presidential campaigns? The Atlantic Wire has tried to create one.
All the cards are in place for Hollywood producer and Democratic Party booster Harvey Weinstein to deliver a cinematic October surprise for President Obama's re-election campaign.
What President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage didn't do: Allow a single new gay couple to get married. What it did do: Inspire waves of campaign donations, attack ads, and a symbolic but ultimately meaningless congressional vote.
The tactic credited with unraveling John Kerry's presidential campaign is being re-tooled for President Obama.
Kristen Wiig sure sounds like somebody who is ready to leave Saturday Night Live, Republicans need a new pitcher for this year's Congressional Baseball Game, and John Kerry is a grandfather.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
Also: Alan Ball is stepping down as True Blood showrunner, the Stanley Cup is coming to Capitol Hill, and Sean Young's history of awards season mayhem.
John Kerry and Scott Brown team up to make sure DirecTV customers in Boston will be able to watch the Super Bowl, and the first round of bidding for the Dodgers is complete.
Mitt Romney says he paid exactly what federal tax laws require, but it's hard not to notice he also checks all the boxes of a cartoon version of a Wall Street villain: Swiss bank accounts, funds in the Cayman Islands, and, The New York Times reports, original IPO shares in Goldman Sachs.
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