Senators Kay Hagan, a Democratic from North Carolina, and John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, present a bill that would slash levies on repatriating foreign earnings

There's a new favourite in the race for the Republican nomination to take on Barack Obama in 2012. Yesterday saw Mitt Romney hobbled from his number one spot - on betting website Intrade at least - by Texan Governor Rick Perry. Romney had been seen as the candidate most likely to secure his party's nomination next year ever since he finished second to John McCain in the 2008 primaries. H...

The US should keep troops in the country beyond the end-of-year deadline for ending its combat mission to help keep the peace, says John McCain

Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, as well as Liz Cheney, have raised concerns at the direction of their party's foreign policy

Bill Kristol seems to think so. I'm told by two reliable sources that Rudy Giuliani intends to run for the GOP nomination for president in 2012. He may throw his hat in the ring soon. Rudy's theory of the race: In the fall of 2007, he decided he couldn't compete with both Mitt Romney and John McCain in New Hampshire, and disastrously decided to try to pull back there and pitch his t...

John McCain, the top Republican on the US Senate armed services committee, has called on President Barack Obama to withdraw no more than 3,000 troops when he commences the US drawdown in Afghanistan next month

Barack Obama will try to recapture the magic from his 2008 presidential campaign in his first large-scale outdoor rally since he delivered his acceptance speech in Grant Park, Chicago after defeating John McCain

The conservative Tea Party movement has made its influence felt in the latest round of Republican primary elections, with sitting senators John McCain being forced to the right in Arizona and Lisa Murkowksi struggling to retain the party ticket for her seat in Alaska.

With this recent editorial, the New York Times demonstrates once again its fitness only to harm national security through damaging leaks, rather than contribute to coherent debate. Climbing aboard the Robert Gates bandwagon (as the Secretary has replaced John McCain as Every Democrat's Favorite Republican), the Times lauds many of the Secretary's recently announced directives to cut defe...

Senator John McCain has called for Barack Obama to clarify his plans to start withdrawing troops within a year from Afghanistan.