"I'm going to stay out of that," the vice president said after he was about to be candid about his views on Scottish independence.
The Anti-Defamation League criticized Biden's use of the anti-Semitic slur but said the vice president had "no ill intent."
Iowa will hold the first contest in the 2016 Democratic nominating campaign.
The president told Congress he didn't need its approval for his strategy to go after the Islamic State.
Possible 2016 U.S. Presidential candidates including Hillary Clinton, Rick Perry and Marco Rubio have slammed ISIS.
The Obama administration has emphasized that the U.S. is not intimidated by ISIS' brutal actions.
The president spent two weeks in Martha's Vineyard as American journalist James Foley was beheaded and the situation in Ferguson unraveled.
The "inevitability" talk surrounding Hillary Clinton and the 2016 race mirrors her 2008 campaign. Will the result be any different?
President Obama decided to cut short his vacation in Martha's Vineyard amid growing domestic and national problems.
With Iraq in need of a unifying leader, the U.S. and Iran are in agreement over the newly nominated prime minister-designate, Haider al-Abadi.
In brief remarks Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama praised the nomination of Haider Al-Abadi as Iraq’s new prime minister.
To say Haider Al-Abadi inherits a troubled Iraq is an understatement. Does the ex-electrical engineer have what it takes to bring Iraq together?
Secret Service agents reportedly don't like to be on Biden's detail.
Vladimir Putin has no soul, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden concluded after meeting with the Russian leader at the Kremlin in 2011, according to an article in the New Yorker published online on Monday.
U.S. officials said MH17 was shot down with a surface-to-air missile, and a "heat signature" may help them trace its origin.
The two world leaders had previously arranged to discuss the ongoing Ukraine crisis.
A rocket attack Tuesday in the Donetsk region, which killed 11 people, could have come from Russia, according to a military analyst.
Obama says Afghan election results should be honored and examined to ensure credibility.
Without Congress, Obama can do little to extend the meager family-leave benefits the United States offers it workers.
Drug smugglers are exploiting the distraction caused by thousands of Central American migrants for Border Patrol.
Nearly 100,000 Central Americans, including 52,000 unaccompanied minors, have crossed into the U.S. since October.
Biden's warning came as fighting continued in the east, which has killed 147 Ukrainian soldiers and wounded hundreds more.