Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., leaves the Senate chamber last week after accusing the CIA of illegally searching committee computers.J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press Obama wants to stay…
The U.S. Agency for International Development on Saturday began seeking bids on a monitoring project contract that could cost up to $170 million. The agency hopes the five-year project will…
“We look forward to seeing more and more people take advantage as some of the politics of the thing get drained away, as people start feeling more confident about the…
UNITED NATIONS – Muslim and Christian leaders of the Central African Republic pleaded Friday for the U.N. Security Council to hurry and deploy peacekeepers to a country that’s been ripped…
The latest evidence suggests the plane didn’t experience a catastrophic incident over the South China Sea as was initially suspected. Some experts theorize that one of the pilots, or someone…
A 1849 map that is being auctioned by Heritage Auctions of Dallas shows Texas shortly after it became a state, when it was “at that fledging point where it’s just…
City played role in campaign for equality
President Barack Obama is asking Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to look for ways to ease America’s deportation policies. Obama met with three Latino lawmakers Thursday who complained about the…
Russia’s Foreign Ministry says violence that broke out in Donetsk, Ukraine, Thursday night shows that the Ukrainian government has lost control of its people. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left,…
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang says countries looking for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 need to better coordinate their efforts because passengers’ “families and friends are burning with anxiety.” Many Malaysians…
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – El Salvador’s electoral court on Thursday declared leftist candidate Salvador Sanchez Ceren the winner of the tight presidential election, making him the first former rebel…
A new poll shows that support for Hamas is slipping in the Gaza Strip as the government struggles to keep its economy afloat. Hamas’ economic problems have soared since the…
Approval of the $9.7 billion measure seemed likely by the Democratic-led Senate when it returns in late March from a weeklong recess. That would throw the issue into the Republican-run…
Newly released Air Force documents suggest that missile crew members at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota were cheating on exams almost a year before allegations of widespread cheating…
WASHINGTON – The oil company behind the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history can once again perform work for the federal government. Under an agreement reached Thursday with the…
Secretary of State John Kerry says he will urge Russia to consider something less than annexation of the Crimea region no matter what voters decide in a referendum Sunday. Crimea’s…
CIA Director John Brennan is denying that his agency hacked into a computer to find details about a Senate committee’s investigation into possible CIA abuse of terror suspects during the…
A House-passed bill that would expedite congressional lawsuits against the president stands little chance of passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate. The House, which is controlled by Republicans, say the law…
Iran’s president is visiting Oman to strengthen ties between the two Middle Eastern countries. Hassan Rouhani, left, signed an agreement to build a pipeline to ship Iranian natural gas to…
President Barack Obama plans to help low-paid salaried workers by raising the pay threshold for workers covered by overtime rules. The president wants to extend overtime pay to more salaried…
Malaysian officials are denying claims that they have been withholding any information about the circumstances surrounding the flight of a Malaysia Airlines jet that has been missing for five days.…
Obama made a point of welcoming Ukraine’s new leader to the White House, declaring as they sat side-by-side that he hoped there would be a “rethinking” by Russian President Vladimir…
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says her agency is finding that more people on signing up for health insurance as they find out how affordable it can be…
California officials are grappling with how to regulate driverless cars once they begin hitting the roads in a few years. One of the issues officials want to clarify now is…
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. is asking the CIA to apologize for searching a congressional computer system for information about an investigation into allegations that the CIA…
As criticism of their inability to find any trace of the jet has mounted, the Malaysian authorities have repeatedly insisted that they were doing their best to solve the mystery…
PATTAYA, Thailand – Authorities questioned travel agents Monday at a beach resort in Thailand about two men who boarded the vanished Malaysia Airlines plane with stolen passports, part of a…
Wilsondu1-i-syn Judge Col. James Pohl reviewed newly disclosed emails and said he found evidence of unlawful command influence in Fort Bragg officials’ decision to reject a plea deal before the…
