US President Barack Obama has refused to meet Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who will make a controversial visit to the United States in early March as he fights for re-election./ It is a "matter of long-standing practice and principle" that the president does not meet foreign leaders ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will not meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli leader travels to Washington in March, the White House said Thursday, one day after being caught off-guard by Republicans' invitation for Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flashes the sign of victory as he gives a speech during a campaign meeting Jan. 5./ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flashes the sign of victory as he gives a speech during a campaign meeting Jan. 5. (Jack Guez / AFP/Getty Images)/ Israeli spy ...
Congress is asserting itself because almost nobody trusts Obama./ President Obama is unhappy with House Speaker John Boehner for inviting Israel’s Prime Minister to address Congress without consulting the White House, with spokesman Josh Earnest calling it a “departure” from protocol. What Mr. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic leader of the U.S. House of Representatives says it was inappropriate for Speaker John Boehner to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress. Rep. Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday that Boehner should have consulted first with other ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister says he has accepted House of Representatives leader John Boehner's invitation to address the U.S. Congress. Boehner invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to a joint meeting of Congress in February and push for new sanctions against Iran. ...
Battle lines are drawn in Washington over possible sanctions against Iran. Plus, Google is entering the wireless phone service arena. Photo: Getty/ This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. ... when everybody and welcome the new sub I'm Simon Constable ... ...
The leaders of Israel and Iran have tense relations and they are likely to be exacerbated in the wake of a move by House Speaker John Boehner. He invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Washington and address a Joint Session of Congress on February the 11th. The issues are ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defying President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner announced on Wednesday that he's invited Israel's prime minister to stand before Congress and push for new sanctions against its archenemy Iran./ Boehner's decision to bring Benjamin Netanyahu before a joint meeting of ...
- Less than twelve hours after President Barack Obama directly lawmakers against nudging their way into talks over Iran’s nuclear program, members of Congress made clear that they weren’t planning to heed his cautions. “I have met no one that believes that us weighing in would do anything to ...
This January 5, 2015 photo shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)/ Washington (AFP) - The White House on Wednesday gave an icy response to news that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited to address Congress next month, suggesting it ...
The speaker of the House also told a private meeting of GOP lawmakers that Congress would move ahead on new penalties against Iraq despite Obama's warning that any legislation would scuttle diplomatic negotiations over the country's nuclear program./ Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c ...
A bipartisan battle is heating up over the possibility of more Iran sanctions. WSJ’s Jerry Seib explains. Photo: AP/ This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. ... prison Obama laid out a lot of ideas in the stated the Union speech that he Congress will be ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flashes the victory sign during an electoral rally for his Likud party in Tel Aviv, on January 5, 2015 (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)/ Washington (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was invited Wednesday to address a joint meeting of the US Congress ...
rebuffs Obama on sanctions/ FILE - In this May 24, 2011 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio to make a statement on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner has invited Netanyahu to address Congress about Iran. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, ...
In this May 24, 2011 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio to make a statement on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner has invited Netanyahu to address Congress about Iran. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)/ WASHINGTON (AP) — Rebuffing ...
- President Obama warned lawmakers in his State of the Union address on Tuesday against interfering with his administration's nuclear negotiations with Iran, promising to veto any new sanctions legislation that makes it to his desk. “New sanctions passed by this Congress, at this moment in time, ...
A day after President Obama threatened to veto any sanctions bill against Iran, lawmakers on Wednesday clashed with top administration officials over U.S. strategy in with the Islamic republic and indicated that they would drive headlong toward tougher legislation. The determination of a group ...
The speaker of the House also told a private meeting of GOP lawmakers that Congress would move ahead on new penalties against Iraq despite Obama's warning that any legislation would scuttle diplomatic negotiations over the country's nuclear program./ 's prime minister to address a joint meeting ...
House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday invited Israel’s prime minister to speak next month before a joint session of Congress as part of growing showdowns with President Obama over proposals to tighten sanctions against Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly accepted the offer ...
House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday invited Israel’s prime minister to speak next month before a joint session of Congress as part of growing showdowns with President Obama over proposals to tighten sanctions against Iran. The outreach by Boehner (R-Ohio) followed Obama’s latest appeals ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner is inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress next month and discuss the threat from Iran. Boehner, in a statement Wednesday, also is rebuffing President Barack Obama's call for ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding the opening round of Capitol Hill's showdown with the White House over talks to prevent Iran from being able to develop a nuclear weapon. The committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday about the negotiations with Tehran and the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says if Congress passes new sanctions on Iran, it will "all but guarantee" that delicate nuclear talks with Iran will fail. Obama is threatening to veto new sanctions. He says in his State of the Union address that if diplomacy fails because of new ...
House Speaker John Boehner invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of the U.S. Congress next month as lawmakers weigh legislation that would tighten sanctions on Iran. The invitation to Netanyahu comes hours after President Barack Obama said in his ...
House Speaker John Boehner said his response to President Obama's call to "hold your fire" on Iran sanctions is 'Hell no!"/ , an opponent of talks with Iran, to address Congress. to veto any new sanctions, telling Republicans he will act quickly on sanctions if the talks fail. The speaker told a ...
The Sheetz convenience store chain has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants. Sheetz Inc., which operates more than 700 stores in six states, discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by ...
Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, was out driving west of Moscow, Idaho, the night of the slayings, , and the defense plans to offer a cell phone tower and radio frequency expert to partially corroborate this account, a court document ...
The EU has agreed to expand sanctions on Iranian producers of drones and missiles following Tehran's unprecedented attack on Israel./ "It's very important to do everything to isolate Iran," European Council President Charles Michel said./ The bloc already has multiple sanctions in place against ...
) — Several students and adults participated in an hours-long walkout from Utah’s on Sunday with an initial target of 500 signatures — a number of signatures that was reached by Wednesday, prompting the goal to increase to 1,000 signatures./ The description for the petition says that the ...
a subpoena as she arrived for an event at a bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor, who is expected to be a witness at the A process server working for Trump's lawyers said he approached Daniels with papers demanding information related to a documentary recently released about her life ...
Tourists stranded in Dubai's major airports say they are "desperate for food" and are running low on water as floods cause disruption and chaos in one of the world's busiest transport hubs./ Passengers who have spoken to the BBC say they have been waiting for hours at Dubai's two major ...
Uber is helping investigators look into an account that sent a driver to the Ohio home where an 81-year-old man allegedly shot the woman to death because he erroneously believed she was part of a scam that targeted him, the ride-hailing company said Wednesday. The March 25 shooting death of ...
Hugh Grant arrives at the premiere of "Wonka" on Dec. 10, 2023, at Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, Calif. Hugh Grant says he received “an enormous sum of money” to settle a lawsuit accusing the publisher of The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into ...
Iran's brazen attack directly targeting Israel on Saturday means that the one thing President Biden most feared and desperately sought to avert in the wake of the 7 October Hamas attack has happened - an escalation of the conflict to the wider region./ For the US president, the tightrope he was ...
Police have released a grainy image taken from surveillance footage of a man believed to be responsible for a violent sexual assault on a woman who was sitting in her car outside of a restaurant in Pasadena on Saturday. The terrifying ordeal unfolded at around 8:40 p.m. on Sierra Madre Villa ...