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President Barack Obama is facing a political situation not altogether unlike what the last Democrat in the White House, Bill Clinton, experienced during his second term.

President Obama's charm offensive has been a dismal failure , but of course, he didn't really try all that hard.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are making clear they are staying out of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, just as the race is about to be roiled by the candidacy of their close aide Huma Abedin's husband, Anthony Weiner.

In the idealistic constitutional fantasies of those who harbor high hopes and short memories, the accumulating effect of the scandals piling up at the White House will result in the impeachment and removal from office of Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States.

He's compared himself to Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, evoked nostalgia for John F. Kennedy, sought to emulate Ronald Reagan, praised George W. Bush, and enlisted the assistance of Bill Clinton in his 2012 re-election effort, but as his second term stumbles along, the president with whom Barack Obama finds himself being compared is Richard ... (more)

Former U.S. President Clinton visited Colombia last week, meeting with President Juan Manuel Santos and visiting Bogota, where Mayor Gustavo Petro showed him around the city in an electric taxi.

The Confederate flag of the 7th Virginia Infantry Army of Northern Virginia Obverse captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., in July 1863 by the 82nd New York Infantry.

What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity.

Come on, Eagle – let's get our headline facts straight. Obama did not fire the IRS chief.

President Bill Clinton walks to the White House Rose Garden to deliver a statement on the impeachment inquiry on Dec.

Those are the urgent questions Republican leaders face. Their answers depend on a third question: What do they hope to accomplish? It would be so easy to succumb to glee.

Mr. President, every month since you've been in office, I've sent you a personal letter, as I have with every president since Bill Clinton.

Wow, when you have Forehead, agreeing with the Tea Party, then you know the IRS scandal is a very serious problem for big government-loving, liberals.

A few weeks ago, a Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll was taken to gauge whom New Jerseyans view as their favorite president.

TEST Your Patriotism with the Intelligence Centre Inc., New York, and stand a chance to win a scholarship worth $495! We'd avoid Nikita Khrushchev, who looks the easier draw due to lack of hair and rounded throat.

The third book of Rick Atkinson's World War II trilogy tells the stories of the generals and the GIs in the Allied armies' final sweep across Western Europe.

Daughters of Charity, a nursing order, tended to men wounded at Battle of Gettysburg.

The state took control of the district yesterday because of fiscal woes. Turner has a long resume of school work, including in the fiscal distress unit of the state department.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is on a working visit to the U.S., awarded St.

Simon Calder is Travel Editor at Large for The Independent, writing a weekly column, various articles and features as well as filming a weekly video diary.