Washington (dpa) – The US Supreme Court heard the first arguments Monday in a challenge to President Barack Obama's signature health care overhaul law, as Republican presidential candidates used the opportunity to attack the proposal that is sure to (...)
Washington (dpa) – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Saudi Arabia later this week to discuss the ongoing violence in Syria and other regional issues, the State Department said Monday.
Clinton will meet with King Abdullah (...)
Washington (dpa) – US Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales was charged Friday with 17 counts of murder in the March 11 killings of Afghan civilians.
Bales could face the death penalty for 17 counts of murder with premeditation, along with six counts (...)
Washington (dpa) – The World Bank announced Friday it would consider three candidates from the United States, Colombia and Nigeria to lead the international development lender.
The bank's board of directors said they would consider Jim Yong Kim (...)
Washington (dpa) – US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta welcomed his Israeli counterpart Ehud Barak to the Pentagon Wednesday for talks expected to focus on the nuclear standoff with Iran.
The Pentagon provided few details of the meeting other than (...)
Washington (dpa) – A Guantanamo detainee pled guilty to war crimes charges on Wednesday as part of a deal with the US government that would see him testify against other terrorism suspects, court documents showed.
Majid Khan, 32, had faced (...)
CAIRO (dpa) – A 17 year-old pupil has died following a shooting at a high school in the US state of Ohio, media reported Tuesday, bringing the death toll to two.
A 16 year-old had died in a local hospital on Monday, hours after a teenager opened (...)
CAIRO (dpa) – One pupil died and four others were wounded in a shooting at a high school in the US state of Ohio, police said Monday.
The shooter, believed to be acting alone, opened fire in the cafeteria of the school in Chardon before classes (...)
Washington (dpa) – The Republicans vying to face President Barack Obama in November elections blasted him in a debate late Wednesday for not going far enough on Iran and Syria.
“Syria is a puppet state of Iran,” former Pennsylvania senator Rick (...)
Washington (dpa) – A landmark trade deal between the United States and South Korea will enter into force on March 15, US trade officials said Tuesday.
US and Korean officials had completed review of each other's laws and regulations over the (...)
Washington (dpa) – A Nigerian man who attempted to blow up a passenger jet to Detroit on Christmas 2009 was sentenced to life in prison Thursday.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called underwear bomber, had pled guilty to the charges last year, (...)
Washington (dpa) – Members of the terrorist group al-Qaeda have been infiltrating the Syrian opposition, a top US intelligence official told Congress Thursday.
“Another disturbing phenomenon that we've seen recently, apparently, is the presence (...)
Washington (dpa) – The US military will allow women into thousands of additional positions for the first time, by narrowing rules meant to keep them out of combat, the Department of Defense said Thursday.
After more than a decade of (...)
Washington (dpa) – The United States is weighing the possibility of providing humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, even as it continues to pressure the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, the White House said Tuesday.
Spokesman Jay Carney (...)
Washington (dpa) – Israel could attack Iran this spring in a bid to stop Tehran from producing a nuclear weapon, an unnamed defense official told CNN Thursday.
The source was familiar with an assessment by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that (...)
Washington (dpa) – The United States on Friday urged Latin American countries not to strengthen ties with Iran as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepares to visit the region.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that the (...)
Des Moines, Iowa (dpa) – The top two Republican candidates in the opening contest of the US presidential race sprinted to a photo finish Tuesday evening.
Former former Pennsylvania senator Rich Santorum and former Massachusetts governor Mitt (...)