Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

Text of President Barack Obama's speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House: ___ It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791— standing guard in the...

Paul Bedard

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who led the filibuster decrying President Obama's policy of using drones to strike American terrorists, still has doubts about the president's drone policy despite Obama's full-throated explanation of it Thursday at National Defense University in...

Brian Hughes

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

President Obama on Thursday said he is imposing new limitations on the use of drone strikes against suspected terrorists and took fresh steps to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, declaring America at a “crossroads” in its fight against terrorism. In the most expansive detailing of...

Paul Bedard

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

President Obama has failed to live up to his "transformational" image crafted in the 2008 campaign, winning a lukewarm "meh" from influential scholar Joseph S. Nye Jr., former dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In his upcoming book "Presidential Leadership...

Nikki Schwab

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

A handful of celebs and singers will be heading into D.C. this weekend for official Memorial Day festivities. First, there's Lt. Dan actor Gary Sinise, who is the host of Sunday's National Memorial Day Concert on the National Mall, alongside actor Joe Mantegna. Joining them are former...

Nikki Schwab

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

On Wednesday, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley lunched at Lincoln Restaurant in downtown D.C. with a group of 13. The governor and his gang took over the Flag Room at the restaurant. The Democrat ordered a seasonal chopped salad, roasted salmon and a brown-butter fudge cake, according to a...

Nikki Schwab

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

Singer Kelly Rowland is heading to the District this weekend to be the featured guest at the Park at Fourteenth's Memorial Day fete. The party kicks off with a dinner at 7 p.m. Sunday and carries on until 4 a.m. Monday. Tickets for the event, featuring the former Destiny's Child member, are $20...

Philip Klein

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

As I wrote earlier, California is going to be a major test case for the implementation of President Obama’s health care law. Though major insurers have decided to opt out of the state’s subsidized insurance exchange, the authority tasked with managing the program is now touting number of...

Paul Bedard

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

An Obamacare earmark championed by former Sen. John Kerry that raised wage payments to Massachusetts hospitals at the expense of those in the other 49 states is coming under fire in Congress and could die now that the 29-year Senate veteran is gone. Dubbed the "Bay State Boondoggle" by...

Charlie Spiering

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

During his foreign policy speech this afternoon, President Obama warned that domestic terrorism would increase in the modern age of the Internet. “[T]his threat is not new,” Obama said. “But technology and the Internet increase its frequency and lethality.” Obama warned Americans...