WASHINGTON — Disclosures about National Security Agency cyberspying on millions of Americans vividly illustrates how the federal government’s check-and-balance system is out of balance.
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KABUL — A proposed law to protect Afghan women and girls from abuses such as child marriage, bride barter and spousal abuse has created a furor in the past week, exposing a generational and religious struggle that persists in this traditional Muslim society despite a decade of Western-backed…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov met in Paris Monday to coordinate international efforts to bring both sides in the Syrian civil war to peace talks.
BRUSSELS (AP) — British Foreign Secretary William Hague says the European Union has decided to lift the arms embargo on the Syrian opposition while maintaining all other sanctions against Bashar Assad’s regime after June 1.
BALTIMORE (AP) — A fire that broke out aboard a Royal Caribbean ship Monday did enough damage that the rest of the cruise was canceled and the company said the more than 2,200 passengers will be flown from the Bahamas back to Baltimore where the trip began.
MOORE, Okla. _ Rain drenched the tornado-devastated towns near Oklahoma City again Thursday as weary survivors began to bury their dead and find the strength to carry on.
When President Barack Obama travels to Oklahoma on Sunday to meet with the survivors of Monday’s tornado, it will mark the third time this year that he has journeyed to a patch of America to console a community on behalf of the country. During his five years in office, this presidential ritu…
KABUL, Afghanistan _ A suicide bomb blast killed a provincial leader and at least 12 other people Monday in northern Afghanistan, the latest in a step-up of attacks by Taliban insurgents as warm weather returns.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria’s civil war next door.
CAIRO _ Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ordered army reinforcements to the restive Sinai on Monday amid rising tensions there over the kidnapping of seven soldiers by suspected Islamist militants.
BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah was pulled more deeply into Syria’s civil war as 28 guerrillas from the Lebanese Shiite militant group were killed and dozens more wounded while fighting rebels, Syria activists said Monday.
WASHINGTON _ Given the crude nature of the bombs and the rash actions of the fugitives, the Boston Marathon attack looks less like a plot orchestrated from wwabroad, investigators say, and more like an example of what U.S. officials have long feared: a lethal operation by home-grown terroris…
BOSTON (AP) — Moments after investigators went before television cameras to broadcast photos of two men in ball caps wanted for the Boston Marathon bombing, queries from viewers started cascading in — 300,000 hits a minute that overwhelmed the FBI’s website.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s first budget of his new term is a political straddle, aimed at enticing Republicans into a new round of deficit negotiations while trying to keep faith with Democrats who favor higher taxes in service of more government spending.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by a net $600 billion over 10 years, raise taxes and trim popular benefit programs, including Social Security and Medicare. The White House claims deficit reductions of…
WASHINGTON — The headline initiatives in Barack Obama’s budget include adoption of chained CPI and other cuts offered as a concession to House Republicans in December, the funding of universal preschool through a $78 billion increase in the tobacco tax, and the inclusion of various infrastru…
WASHINGTON — This is a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad jobs report.
WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to budgets, balance is in the eye of the congressional beholder.
TEL AVIV, Israel — Across Israel Friday, news stations aired a special live broadcast of President Barack Obama’s last day in the Jewish state with a headline summarizing his visit: “US President wins our hearts and minds.”
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, 76, a quiet intellectual, was sworn in as the Catholic Church’s first pope from the Americas on Wednesday.
VATICAN CITY— Pope Francis, the Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio, will be expected to clean up the Catholic Church’s administration and finances and restore its moral leadership role, turning a page on recent scandals.
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