On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the vice president appeared to go beyond President Obama’s views on the issue.

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The Caucus: Biden ‘Comfortable’ With Gay Marriage

The Canadian firm trying to build an oil pipeline from Alberta to the US Gulf Coast has formally proposed a new route, the US state department says.

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New path for Keystone XL pipeline

BEIJING —Blind activist Chen Guangcheng and his family “have had a change of heart” about staying in China, the U.S. State Department spokeswoman said Thursday, and American officials are planning to talk with them more to decide whether they should leave their homeland and seek asylum in the United States. Read full article > >

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Activist Chen Guangcheng wants to leave China with Hillary Clinton

New details of intrigue, heroics and ultimately what some people involved called a betrayal emerged from the 10-day saga of dissident Chen Guangcheng.

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A Car Chase, Secret Talks and Second Thoughts

Negotiations between the United States and Pakistan failed over Pakistani demands for an apology for American airstrikes last November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on the Afghan border.

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Talks Between U.S. and Pakistan Fail Over Airstrike Apology

Hillary Clinton has jumped on the Amelia Earhart bandwagon, just in time for the 75th anniversary of the famed aviator’s disappearance in the South Pacific. Earhart “embodied the spirit of an America coming of age and increasingly confident, ready to lead in a quite uncertain and dangerous world,” Clinton said in a press conference at the State Department Tuesday. “She gave people hope and she inspired them to dream bigger and bolder. When she took off on that historic journey, she carried the aspirations of our entire country with her.” Read full article > >

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Hillary Clinton signs onto latest search for Amelia Earhart

“No president since the modern state of Israel [was formed] has failed to stand by our ally Israel — only President Obama. …The president spurned the president of Egypt when he took his first foreign trip to Cairo… In May he even said that Israel should retreat to its indefensible 1967 borders… Obama’s State Department now designates Jerusalem as an international city and in a bizarre move our State Department will not even acknowledge that Jerusalem belongs to Israel.” Read full article > >

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Michele Bachmann at CPAC: History through a partisan lens

The use of unarmed craft to protect American buildings and personnel may foreshadow an expansion of such operations to the United States government’s diplomatic arm.

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Iraq Is Angered by U.S. Drones Patrolling Its Skies

Hijackings have declined sharply in the past year, but where interdiction ends, a problem begins: what to do with the detained pirates?

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News Analysis: Seized Pirates in Legal Limbo, With No Formula for Trials

Ambassador Michael A. McFaul has arrived as the Kremlin tries to portray antigovernment protests as being driven by the United States, but he has no intention of keeping a low profile.

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In Russia, New U.S. Envoy, McFaul, Ruffles Feathers

The Taliban’s willingness to open a political office in Qatar represents a critical point in the United States’s attempt to negotiate an end to the Afghanistan war.

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Against Odds, Path Opens Up for U.S.-Taliban Talks

Mira D. Patel Special adviser, secretary’s policy planning staff, State Department   Best known for: Serving on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s policy planning staff, working on issues that affect women, refugees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. She has played a behind-the-scenes role on two U.S. global initiatives regarding gay rights, and women in public service. She recently flew to Geneva, where Clinton gave a speech to diplomats and activists on human rights for the LGBT community. Patel is also engaged in preparing for Thursday’s first colloquium of the Women in Public Service project, an effort to identify, train and support female political leaders worldwide. Read full article > >

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Fed Faces: Mira D. Patel

The quarter-million confidential State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks last year have been public on the Web for months. The government is pretending otherwise.

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State Dept. Withholds Cables That WikiLeaks Posted

Manchester, N.H., has taken in more than 2,000 refugees from countries like Somalia and Sudan, but officials there say they now need a break.

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Halt Is Sought to Manchester, N.H., Refugee Resettlement

The Obama administration has expressed concern that the failure to move to civilian control could undermine the defining revolt of the Arab Spring.

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U.S. Warns Egypt as Military Stalls Transition