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NAME - Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel.
AGE-BIRTH DATE - 66; Oct. 4, 1946.
EDUCATION - Graduate, Brown Institute for Radio and Television, Minneapolis, 1966; bachelor's degree, history, University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1971.
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NAME - Susan Elizabeth Rice.
AGE-BIRTH DATE - 48; Nov. 17, 1964.
EXPERIENCE - U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, January 2009-present; senior national security adviser on Barack Obama's presidential campaign, 2008; senior foreign policy fellow, Brookings
By By JULIE PACEAssociated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's chemical weapons position on Syria may have given Bashar Assad an unintended opening: The embattled Syrian leader appears willing to use other deadly tactics, including Scud missiles, without fear of U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice says she withdrew from consideration for secretary of state because she didn't want to endure confirmation hearings that were "very politicized."
Rice also says she wouldn't have wanted her nomination to have delayed or distracted President
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Susan Rice, the embattled U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, abruptly withdrew from consideration to be the next secretary of state on Thursday after a standoff with Republicans. The text of the letter she submitted to President Barack Obama:
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The statement released by the White House on Thursday in which President Barack Obama accepted the decision by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to withdraw from consideration to be the next secretary of state:
"Today, I spoke to Ambassador Susan Rice and accepted her
WASHINGTON (AP) - UN Ambassador Susan Rice withdraws from consideration for secretary of state.
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By By JULIE PACEAssociated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration to be the next secretary of state after the embattled U.N. ambassador ran into a standoff with Republicans over an attack on Americans in Libya.
President Barack Obama, in a statement, said
By By KIMBERLY DOZIERAP Intelligence Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. counterterrorism officials told lawmakers Thursday that uncooperative or less-than-capable local law enforcement in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia is slowing the search for suspects in the death of the U.S. ambassador and three other
By By ANDREW TAYLORAssociated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - One of President Barack Obama's Senate allies said Thursday that an increase in the Medicare eligibility age is "no longer one of the items being considered by the White House" in negotiations with top Republicans on avoiding the so-
