A lucky day for Susan Rice

WASHINGTON — President Obama dropped embattled United Nations envoy Susan Rice from consideration as his next secretary of State, signaling the start of a broad reshuffling of his Cabinet and senior staff. Bowing to a barrage of criticism by

The big lesson of Ambassador Susan Rice's decision to drop out as a candidate for Secretary of State may be that we should now expect top Administration officials to fall ill on weekends when there is bad news on their

Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who on Thursday withdrew her name from consideration for Secretary of State, has a reputation for toughness. How tough? Her Russian counterpart, ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin, joked that he

WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said she found the treatment of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice by Republican senators "appalling," arguing that her consideration to be the next Secretary of State

WASHINGTON -- In a phone call with the president on Thursday, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice formally withdrew her name from consideration as the next Secretary of State, putting an abrupt end to a political drama that had