On Thursday, the president plans to deliver a speech focusing drone attacks and military detention — a pretty sweeping agenda for a simple policy speech, one that might signal a sea change in America's counterterrorism efforts, and Obama's foreign policy legacy.
A new batch of emails from the Penn State archives shed new light on former football coach Joe Paterno's approach to discipline and also contradict earlier claims from his family that he never used email.
At a meeting of the "Friends of Syria" in Paris, French François Hollande and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered some of the strongest threats so far against Syria and the nations that are supporting its dictator.
Today in Sports: A blockbuster NBA trade, soccer get new technology, and some truly awful Olympic photographs.
Six people were arrested in Greater London on Thursday as part of a possible terrorist plot "involving Islamist extremists, with potential UK targets," according to The BBC.
The bodies of two Turkish air force pilots who were shot down by the Syrian military last month have been found with the help of Robert Ballard, the undersea explorer famous for discovering the wreck of the Titanic.
The latest attack against Mitt Romney and his complicated stance on the health care debate is coming from an unexpected source: the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal.
Folks in San Diego witnessed either the worst Fourth of July fireworks celebration — or the absolute best — when a technical malfunction caused all of their pyrotechnics to go off at the same time.
Today in Sports: Swimming's grand "old" lady is out of the game, Brooklyn goes for broke with Dwight Howard, and a soccer star comes out.
A State Representative in North Carolina accidentally cast the deciding vote on key fracking bill, handing her opponents a victory because she pushed the wrong button.
Amid recent noise about New York City's controversial "stop and frisk" policy, Reuters had done a deep dive into five years of worth of police data to see where (and to whom) the vast majority of searches take place.
On the same day The New York Times reports about a major U.S. naval build up in the Persian Gulf, the Iranian military is bragging about missile tests that can threaten Israel.
A investigation by Human Rights Watch has identified the locations of 27 different "torture centers" across Syria where thousands of citizens have been interrogated and abused since the nation's uprising began in March of 2011.
Today in Sports: Will they or won't they have a track and field run off?; Michael Phelps dials it back a notch, and Tiger Woods is on a roll.
After years of rumor and speculation about his sexuality, CNN anchor/reporter Anderson Cooper has ended speculation in the most understated way imaginable
The prevailing wisdom in conservative circles, following this weekend's news about John Roberts' health care flip-flop, is that the liberal media influenced the Chief Justice's decision. Yet, in retrospect it looks like both sides were playing that game all along.
The Army soldier who killed his superior officer on Thursday and then shot himself, died from his wounds a day later.
A federal district Court judge has issued a temporary injunction blocking a new law that would have forced the closure of Mississippi's only remaining abortion clinic.
Enrique Peña Nieto appears to have won Mexico's presidential election on Sunday, though his closest challenger refused to concede the race despite a sizable deficit at the polls.
Today in Sports: A military salute at the NBA Draft, Maryland cuts back on sports, and Sid the Kid isn't going anywhere.
A former dean at Purdue University has withdrawn a pledge of $1 million to the school in protest of the Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels' appointment to be the school's next president
United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan says he "optimistic" that international talks in Geneva this weekend will end with "an acceptable result" for the Syrian peace process despite little evidence that this peace plan will do any better than the last one.
Passengers and crew on a Tianjin Airlines flight in the Xinjiang province in China, overpowered and subdued six people who attempted to hijack the plane shortly after takeoff.
A solider at Fort Bragg in North Carolina shot and killed a fellow soldier on Thursday before trying to kill himself.
In a 5-4 decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Affordable Care Act has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
A military transport plane that crashed in 1952 was discovered frozen in the ice on Colony Glacier in Alaska.
An embarrassing and costly trade that got JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon called before Congress, may actually cost the bank four times more dollars than originally thought.
Update: Curry didn't do much to sugarcoat her disappointment during her very emotional on-air goodbye, and she focused on her love for viewers. "This is not as I expected -- to ever leave this couch after 15 years."
Today in Sports: Sailing comes back to TV, college football gets a playoff, and a truly horrible umpiring call.
There was another painful reminder of the dangers faced by women in Egypt after the story of another attack on a Western journalist that sound painfully similar to the sexual assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan last year.
In a highly symbolic moment once thought "unthinkable", Queen Elizabeth traveled to Northern Ireland on Wednesday and met with Deputy Prime Minister Martin McGuinness, a former commander in the Irish Republican Army.
Despite major defections and an increasing tough and brutal resistance, intelligence officials in the United States say that Syria's government is unlikely to fall anytime soon.
After a lot of hand-wringing over inter-party squabbles and the endangered incumbent, Congressional lifers Orrin Hatch and Charles Rangel easily survived their primary challenges on Tuesday, signaling almost certain re-election in the fall.
Today in Sports: A title for Arizona, a swimming rivalry in the making, and boos for White Sox fan Barack Obama.
A study by two online security companies found that sophisticated crime-rings are stealing tens of millions of dollars by hacking bank computers.
As Turkey, NATO, and the United Nations all struggle with an appropriate response to Syria's continued flouting of international norms, Iran is now offering its services as a peacemaker.
The island of Cyprus became the fifth European country to request a bailout for its struggling banks, and the estimated 10 billion euros needed would amount to more than half its total economy.
The Wall Street Journal — a key arm of the Rupert Murdoch media empire — is reporting that their boss is seriously considering splitting that empire's entertainment and publishing divisions into two separate companies.
Today in Sports: The Fortnight gets underway, Tony Parker nearly loses an eye, and the dumbest trade offer ever.
The nation was eagerly awaiting the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act, which did not come today, but still shined a brighter light the other important decisions that were released today.
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In an interview that won't sit well with leaders in Israel, Egypt's president-elect Mohammed Mursi says he wants to build closer ties with Iran and will "reconsider" the Camp David Accord that has kept the peace between his country and Israel for more than 30 years.
Six senior officers, including a general and two colonels, have defected along with 30 other soldiers from Syria's army and arrived in Turkey.
This week's award for Easy Irony went to a man who claimed he was shot while hitchhiking across the country to write a book about "Kindness in America." Now gets a new award for admitting that he actually shot himself.
Today in Sports: U.S. track and field gets more aerodynamic, a soccer player has an underwear problem, and who will hire Erin Andrews?
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Florida Governor Rick Scott is okay with removing thousands of names from the voting rolls in his state, because his name was once removed from that same because Florida thought he was dead.
Nearly twenty years after a deadly nerve gas on attack on the Tokyo subway, police in Japan have tracked down the final remaining fugitive from the group that was responsible.
Today in Sports: Armstrong fights back, Matt Cain gets a big assist, and the Heat need a time machine.
Egypt's Constitutional Court has just ruled that its month-long parliamentary election was unconstitutional, ordering the entire lower house of Parliament to be dissolved.
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