There was little sign on Thursday that the deal for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to transfer power to his vice president had calmed Yemen, as simmering conflicts broke out into the open.
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5 Protesters Die In New Violence in Yemen
Twelve wounded troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, several missing both their legs, were clustered Monday around two long tables at the vice president’s home. Joe and Jill Biden’s third annual holiday meal for injured military personnel fell on an especially poisonous day of partisan finger-pointing in Washington. A special congressional “supercommittee” admitted that it had failed to cut the deficit by $1.2 trillion. Read full article > >
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Bidens host wounded troops
According to her memoir, Condoleezza Rice clashed repeatedly with the vice president over captured terrorism suspects.
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In Memoir, Condoleezza Rice Tells of Clashes With Cheney
You’ve got mail. Alaska has released 24,000 pages of emails from Sarah Palin’s two-year tenure as governor, and several revelations have emerged. One series of notes show that Palin was keen on the vice presidential role months before she was chosen as…
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Emails: Palin Liked Obama Energy Plan
Yemen’s opposition says it accepts a transfer of power to the vice-president after President Saleh left for treatment, amid uncertainty over his future.
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Yemen opposition accepts stand-in
Applicants for this fall’s freshman class at Ursinus have plunged, which the vice president for enrollment said was not only welcome but deliberate.
President Hosni Mubarak told the Egyptian people Thursday that he would delegate more authority to his vice president, Omar Suleiman, but that he would not resign his post.
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Mubarak Refuses to Step Down, Stoking Revolt’s Fury and Resolve
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will step down Thursday night, two sources tell NBC News, and his vice president, Omar Suleiman, will take his place. After over two weeks of protests, the army chief of staff waded into the crowd and told protesters,…
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Report: Mubarak to Step Down
Washington – The vice president calls, more than an hour after the appointed time but with an impeccable excuse: He was presiding over the Senate’s vote to ratify the New START treaty. START was the finish of a great few weeks for Joe Biden. A great few weeks for President Obama, too, but in a sense even better for Biden because so many of the successful initiatives were on the vice presidential to-do list. read more
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Ruth Marcus | For Biden, Mission Accomplished
Vice President Joe Biden says President Obama asked him to run again as his vice president on the Democrats’ 2012 presidential ticket, despite circulating rumors that Hillary Clinton would be slotted in as veep. “Look, [Obama] said, ‘We’re going to run…
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Biden: Obama Asked Me to Run Again
The White House dismissed the idea, floated by Bob Woodward, that the vice president and secretary of state might trade jobs.
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Clinton-Biden Swap: Denial, Speculation
Mubarak Refuses to Step Down, Stoking Revolt’s Fury and Resolve
Friday, February 11th, 2011
