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AP - Face to face with Iraq's leaders, Barack obama gained fresh support Monday for the idea of pulling all U.S. combat forces from the war zone by 2010. But the Iraqis stopped short of actual timetables or endorsement of obama's pledge to withdraw troops within 16 months if he wins the presidency.

The White House expressed unhappiness Monday about Iraqi leaders' public backing for Barack obama's troop withdrawal timetable. And it said that Baghdad may be trying to use the U.S. presidential election as leverage in talks about the future of American's military presence and obligations in the war.

Nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina revealed the nation's inability to house large numbers of evacuees, the bush administration proposed a new disaster housing strategy yesterday that includes a mix of solutions tried after the storm, while leaving major blanks to be filled by the next...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. troop "surge" in Iraq that President george W. Bush ordered last year has ended after the last of five additional combat brigades left the country, a U.S. military spokesman said on Tuesday.

Zimbabwean civil society was not ready to celebrate the signature of the memorandum of understanding establishing a framework for power-sharing talks

Once political enemies, mccain negotiates political alliance with president.

Sen. Barack obama said he found "a strong, emerging consensus" for the redeployment of U.S. combat forces from Iraq, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki telling Obama he hoped American combat troops will be gone in two years.

Exclusive: obama discusses opposition to surge, support for troop withdrawal.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged Congress Tuesday to approve the bush administration's plan to back up mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey says he wants Congress, not judges, to make policy on how Guantanamo detainees may challenge their detention. The U.S. supreme court has ruled against the bush administration three times in cases related to processing Guantanamo detainees.