President-elect Barack Obama hasn’t even stepped into office and already a scandal is threatening to dog him.
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig has lost his latest attempt to withdraw his guilty plea in the Minneapolis airport men’s room sex sting that effectively ended his Senate career.
Congress and the White House struggled to clear the final obstacles on a $15 billion bailout of the auto industry on Tuesday, seeking agreement by day’s end followed by swift passage.
Pakistan has intensified its crackdown on a militant group suspected in the Mumbai terror attacks by arresting 20 more people but will not hand any of its citizens over to India, officials said Tuesday.
Norm Steenstra’s budgeting worries mount with each new load of cardboard, aluminum cans and plastics jugs dumped at West Virginia’s largest county recycling center.
Five men charged with plotting the Sept. 11 attacks told a military judge Monday that they want to immediately confess at their war-crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay.
Security forces raided a camp used by militants blamed for the Mumbai attacks and arrested more than a dozen people in Pakistan’s first known response to the assault, militants and an intelligence official said Monday.
A bailout plan for the failing U.S. auto industry could include a Cabinet-level oversight board and a provision to withdraw the money if the overseers decide the companies are failing to take steps to overhaul themselves.
Rioters rampaged through Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki on Sunday, hurling Molotov cocktails, burning stores and blocking city streets with flaming barricades after protests against the fatal police shooting of a teenager erupted into chaos.
Sen. John McCain said Sunday that the situation in Afghanistan will get more difficult before it gets easier - “just like the surge in Iraq was” – as the U.S. prepares to pour thousands more troops into the country, including on the doorsteps of Kabul.
David Gregory’s new job as moderator of “Meet the Press” was made official Sunday with an announcement on the long-running NBC interview program that he will take over starting next week.
Pakistan’s leaders know what’s at stake after the terror attack in Mumbai and have acknowledged their duty to evict terrorists and prevent future attacks, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday.
Airports in India went on high alert Thursday following fresh attack warnings as officials said India suspects two senior leaders of a banned Pakistani militant group orchestrated the deadly Mumbai attacks.
Retail gasoline fell to a new three-year low Tuesday and in an unprecedented decline, crude oil costs $100 less per barrel than it did four months ago with a U.S. recession eating away at energy demand.
Police have arrested the aunt of a 17-year-old boy who showed up at a gym shackled and terrified, claiming he had just fled his captors.
Caracas’ new mayor, a leading opponent of President Hugo Chavez, says he wants to battle crime, trash and potholes – the issues that pushed this sprawling, chaotic capital to make a shift to opposition rule.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates signaled a willingness to forge ahead with two key priorities for the incoming Obama administration: accelerating the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
Russian warships have held training exercises with Venezuela’s navy in Moscow’s first such Caribbean deployment since the Cold War.
Wall Street rebounded Tuesday, regaining some of the ground lost in the previous session’s huge drop, as the potential for a bailout of the beleaguered auto industry helped calm investors. The Dow Jones industrials rose more than 225 points, regaining a third of Monday’s nearly 680-point plunge.
The luxury American cruise ship teeming with hundreds of tourists just might have been too much for the Somali pirates to resist.
