WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former US military intelligence analyst who was responsible for a...
WASHINGTON: The overseers of the US intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect...
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA./WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump on Friday chose Washington insider Donald McGahn to be his White House counsel, giving him the job...
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has said he would consider seeking advice from Bill Clinton, just days after besting the former president's wife, Hillary, in the...
LAS VEGAS, UNITED STATES: Democrat Hillary Clinton and rival Donald Trump wade into their last presidential debate Wednesday with the Republican candidate spiralling downward...
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: The US Senate cleared the way for a $1.15 billion sale of tanks and other military equipment to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, defending a frequent partner in the Middle East recently subject to harsh criticism in Congress.
CHILMARK, UNITED STATES: Declaring he was tired of talking about Donald Trump, President Barack Obama urged Democrats on Monday not to grow too confident about their prospects in the 2016 election despite Hillary Clinton's strong position in the race for the White House.
WASHINGTON: Fifteen Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the largest such release in years, the Pentagon announced Monday.
NEW YORK: President Barack Obama is again facing dissent from within his administration – this time from Attorney General Loretta Lynch - over his plans to shutter the Guantanamo Bay military prison, according to senior administration officials.
BRUSSELS: The NATO alliance agreed on Wednesday to hold onto its broad geographic layout of bases in Afghanistan, a move that could make it easier for the United States to keep more troops there as Kabul struggles with a resurgent Taliban threat.
ORLANDO, FLA./WASHINGTON: The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub knew of his plans for the attack and could soon be charged in connection with the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, a law enforcement source said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON: Democratic President Barack Obama lambasted Donald Trump's proposed ban on Muslim immigrants on Tuesday in an angry denunciation of the Republican presidential candidate's response to the Orlando nightclub massacre.
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama paid tribute Saturday to late boxing great Muhammad Ali, as a towering champion "who fought for what was right" not just in the ring but outside it as well.
HANOI: President Barack Obama said Monday he remained confident the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would be ratified in the United States despite strong political opposition in Washington.
TOKYO: President Barack Obama will go to the atom-bombed city of Hiroshima right after a G7 summit in Japan late next month, the Nikkei business daily reported Friday, in what would be the first such visit by a sitting US leader.
HIROSHIMA: John Kerry on Monday became the first US secretary of state to visit Hiroshima's atomic bomb memorial, calling it a "stark, harsh, compelling reminder" of the need to rid the world of nuclear weapons.