Obama's administration

The report said current plans for the modernization of the aging planes, ships and missile silos that make up the U.S. nuclear arsenal would cost 50 percent more than if the U.S. only operated and maintained its current equipment in the field.

The former U.S. Army Chief of Staff Raymond Odierno said the United States has given its leadership in the Middle East to Russia.

"Frankly we have given up our leadership in the region to Russia. It is time for us to reassert our leadership," Odierno told Fox News on Dec. 21.

The visit by outgoing American President Barack Obama next week to Athens was planned on the certainty that it was going to take place after the victory of Hillary Clinton. And that his keynote speech was to be delivered on one of world's best known locations for the practice of democracy. 

If the U.S. congress had not imposed a two-term limit on the presidency in 1947 after Franklin D. Roosevelt's record four electoral victories, U.S.

The U.S. Congress will vote in coming days on approving construction of the much-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project Republicans claim is step one in their plan for enhanced U.S. energy production.