In Washington, power is measured by access to the president, and as Barack Obama's team fills up with heavyweights, some are wondering if Vice President-elect Joe Biden is running out of room.

Former president opened his foundation's first charitable conference abroad, but his wife's recent appointment as secretary of state grabbed the spotlight.

Its hard to believe that this national-security team will oversee a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq.

For the next two years, at least, John McCain is again the senator from Arizona.

Which Hillary Clinton will be secretary of state?

Jay Nordlinger on the Terror War, alliances, Christmas tracks, and more.

 200 hours of White House tape recordings and 90,000 pages of documents to be released Tuesday

The nation's governors are meeting with the president-elect on Tuesday to press their case for help with budget shortfalls.

Robert Gates visits Minot Air Force Base, says lapses in nuclear weapons procedures last year were unacceptable.

Washington has been inconsistent in its approach to troubled financial companies.

President-elect Barack Obama will need a strong team to help him with the challenges he will face. The choices announced on Monday are a strong start.

Barack Obama and his team should put into action a foreign policy doctrine that builds on some of the ideas developed during George W. Bush’s term.

Well, I am not in anguish.

Who would have guessed Obama harbored a secret desire to draw on experienced Republicans to manage his national-security policy?

There is a paradox at the heart of the proposed bailout of the auto industry. The rescue would have no chance of passing without the muscle of the Big Three's unionized workforce. Yet you can't turn around without hearing someone trash autoworkers for the terrible crime of trying to earn a decent living.

"We don't think the world's great nations and countries can be held hostage by non-state actors," Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said yesterday. Fair enough. But what is the world to do when those non-state actors operate from the territory of a state and are the creation of that state's intelligence services?

Soon after Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, the former president and I had a brief telephone conversation. I had been downright heated about the pardon, a lot angrier than I had ever been about Monica Lewinsky. Clinton implied that I had things historically backward. Long after the Rich pardon had been forgotten, he said, the Lewinsky scandal would remain a vivid memory. That day is yet to come. The Rich pardon is back.

A concept that excludes nothing defines nothing. That's why one of the most urgent tasks for President-elect Barack Obama's "Team of Rivals" foreign policy brain trust is coming up with a coherent intellectual framework -- and a winning battle plan -- for the globe-spanning asymmetrical conflict that George W. Bush calls the "war on terror."

"Nyet! Nyet!" That's what a Russian bodyguard told a McClatchy news reporter when the latter asked for comment on an incident aboard the Admiral Chabanenko, a Russian destroyer that carried President Dmitry Medvedev to Venezuela last week. Following the pomp, circumstance and 21-gun salute that are mandatory at such meetings, there was, it seems, a bit of a misunderstanding. As Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez boarded the vessel, his beefy bodyguards tried to follow him up the gangplank. They were stopped by their equally beefy Russian counterparts. The Venezuelans, who presumably spoke no Russian, tried to push their way through. The Russians, who presumably spoke no Spanish, fought back.

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