Erin Delmore

"I've heard from foreign leaders and from foreign ambassadors that this really undermines our ability to be the world's model of democracy," Sen. Chris Coons said. Read More

Republicans are floating ideas of wrapping the shutdown and the debt ceiling into a single debate. "That's absurd on its face," said House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer. Read More

In a Tuesday interview with NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the country's leadership a “cult,” and a “messianic, apocalyptic, radical regime” intent on the nuclear destruction of Israel and the U.S. Read More

"Ahmadinejad was a wolf in wolf's clothing. Rouhani is a wolf in sheep's clothing -- a wolf who thinks he can pull the wool over the eyes of the international community," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read More

"A small group of one house of one body of Congress has decided to hijack the federal government," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told Andrea Mitchell. "The want to re-litigate the election." Read More

Obama vowed to proceed with caution toward a potential diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear standoff, and reaffirmed an “unshakable bond” with the Israeli people. Read More

The U.S. and Russia have come to an agreement on a draft resolution to enforce the handover of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapon stockpiles, diplomatic sources confirmed to NBC News Thursday. Read More

Ushered into office less than two months ago, Rouhani--a former nuclear negotiator--campaigned on a promise to improve Iran’s international relations. Read More

With less than one week to go before health care "exchanges" open for enrollment, the administration says that individual premiums will cost an average of $328 per month--16% lower than the Congressional Budget Office projected. Read More

President Obama called on the United Nations to pass a “strong” resolution to ensure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad surrenders his chemical weapon stockpiles in a speech before the General Assembly Tuesday. Read More

A resolution that could end the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons is finally in the hands of the United Nations. But it's unclear if it will pass, and how it might be enforced. Read More

Kerry urged the U.N. to sign off on a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Syria at next week's meeting in New York -- hours after Russian President Putin expressed doubt that such a plan would work. Read More

A half-century after her father was president, Caroline Kennedy may get her own government job. Read More

After brokering a deal to cede Syrian weapons to international control -- and avoiding the imminent threat of a western military strike -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he is not certain the plan will work. Read More

The Pentagon ordered a review of security procedures after the 2009 Fort Hood massacre. So how did a troubled individual like Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis gain a security clearance? Read More

Nicole Hockley, whose six-year-old son Dylan was killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School just nine months ago, made an impassioned call for gun control in the wake of Monday's mass shooting at Navy Yard. Read More

Lawmakers are pointing to a new Inspector General report to answer why security at Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yard -- the site of Monday's shooting -- failed to stop a lone gunman bent on a rampage that ultimately killed 12 people. Read More

The United Nations said Monday that chemical weapons were used in an Aug. 21 attack outside of Damascus, marking the worst chemical attack against civilians in a quarter century. Read More

While recent diplomacy has focused on chemical weapons, the Assad regime has killed thousands of civilians with conventional weapons. Horrifying details from a new report. Read More

The Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., told NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell Wednesday that he was “disappointed’ in President Obama’s address to the nation on the Syrian conflict Tuesday night. Read More