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It took a long time for the Obama administration to admit an Al Qaeda link to the attacks in Benghazi on Sept. 11, but according to a new report in The Daily Beast, U.S. intelligence officials knew al Qaeda was involved within a day of the attacks.
He was warned not to use any "inflammatory rhetoric" for his final speech to the United Nations as president of Iran, but Mahmoud Ahmadinejad isn't a big fan of following orders.
The Obama administration has soothed concerns about its Predator drone program by assuring that foreign governments give "full consent" before drones drop Hellfire missiles on unsuspecting targets on their territory. Turns out, though, that's not always the case.
While the Pentagon is still mulling over whether to prosecute Navy SEAL author Matt Bissonnette, it is sure about one thing: it doesn't want any of its employees tweeting about that guy's best-selling book.
It's baby apartheid, and it could be your best shot at getting some peace and quiet on an 8-hour red eye.
China is making big headlines today, on our site and in newspapers, for the launch of its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning. But to add some perspective to China's latest military gain, we've updated a chart to reflect the new naval status quo.
In address to the UN General Assembly, President Obama will defend the First Amendment values of the United States in wake of the riotous uptick of anti-American protests caused by the anti-Islam video Innocence of Muslims.
In today's world tour of state media: The violent poetry of the Taliban is compiled in a book, Vietnam cracks down on "anti-state propaganda" and Iran follows suit. We begin in Afghanistan.
It's not unusual for reporters and press flacks to exchange strong words, but it is unusual for them to go deep-six nuclear on each other—and that's exactly what transpired between longtime Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines and BuzzFeed reporter Michael Hastings in a radioactive e-mail exchange published today.
When Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Pussy Riot had spent enough time behind bars, it raised hopes that they could be released at their next court hearing on Monday, Oct. 1. But in a new interview from prison, the band does not sound all that hopeful.
Pakistan was willing to devote a national holiday to protesting the film Innocence of Muslims but calling for the producer's assassination is a step too far, apparently.
It will likely be Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's last big speech on the international stage this week, and United Nations organizers are terrified he's going to go out with a bang.
The Taliban attack on an air base in southern Afghanistan on Friday drew coverage for the way the insurgents cloaked themselves in U.S. army uniforms to gain a tactical advantage, but few have taken note of the historical proportions of the damage inflicted.
Journalist-turned-immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas has a new cause celebre: Discouraging news outlets everywhere from using the word "illegal immigrant" in news articles.
After its extensive lobbying campaign in Washington, Hillary Clinton is going to de-list the Iranian dissident group Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, from the State Department's terror list in the next few days, reports CNN's Elise Labott.
While the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi has dominated headlines for more than a week, the facts of what actually happened during the Sept. 11 assault are still far from settled. But new media reporting is beginning to piece together the sequence of events.
It never lived up to the renown of the Iraq War troop surge, and now it's officially over.
In a $70,000 charm offensive, the Obama administration has begun airing ads across seven Pakistani television networks to condemn the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims, according to State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
In a statement that suggests the White House and State Department may not be totally in sync, White House spokesman Jay Carney said today "It is self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack," referring to the assault on U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other U.S. personnel.
Protesters burned U.S. flags and hurled objects at riot police amid fires and clouds of tear gas in Pakistan's capital. Looks like the blowback over the Innocence of Muslims film isn't ending anytime soon.
North Korea may be vowing to reduce South Korea to ashes in "three or four minutes" but that doesn't mean it can't pay homage to South Korea's most beloved export, i.e., global pop sensation PSY.
Depending on who you believe, it was either a triumphant attack by Syrian rebels or a potentially catastrophic mid-air accident, but a Syrian military helicopter crashed near the capital.
There isn't a shred of evidence to suggest that Attorney General Eric Holder knew about the botched "gun-walking" scandal known as "Fast and Furious" before Congress began asking him about it in early 2011, according to a long-awaited report by the Justice Department's inspector general.
Some people struggle to act grateful for symbolic gifts from friends or colleagues. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is not one of those people.
For the most part, the West has been spared of the kind of turbulent protests rocking the Muslim world in recent days, but that soon could change as anti-Islam groups threaten to screen the film Innocence of Muslims in the U.S., Canada and Germany.
Jay Carney's previous existence as Washington bureau chief for Time magazine hasn't been much of a problem for him as White House press secretary, but he did get tripped up today by an April 2008 column he wrote about "Barack Obama’s poorly-chosen words about small-town Americans."
You can imagine what an angry Egyptian mob might do to anti-Muslim U.S. pastor Terry Jones , but you don't have to imagine what an angry Egyptian legal system would do.
Every day, cable TV producers book guest after guest to appear on TV. How do you become one of those people?
The scandalous publication of Kate Middleton's unsuspecting breasts has created three case studies surrounding the right to publish royal private parts, and private is the key word here.
Your deep-V's aren't welcome here, Dov Charney. The Malaysian government has begun organizing seminars aimed at helping parents and teachers identify latent homosexuality in children. One of the principal warning signs? V-neck T-shirts.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice surprised journalists Sunday when she contradicted prevailing wisdom that the deadly assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya last week was not a pre-meditated attack.
After months of foot-dragging, the White House finally announced how it would implement the mandatory spending cuts to defense and domestic spending Republicans and Democrats agreed to last year, but that no one — not Congressional Democrats, Republicans, or the White House — wants to see go in effect.
Chicago kids' week-long break from school appears to be coming to an end. The Associated Press reports that president of the Chicago School Board David Vitale says that the teacher's union have fleshed out a "framework" to resolve the teacher's strike by Monday.
If you can't keep track of all the Muslim protests erupting across the globe, you're not alone.
Here's a new twist on the panopticon: Authorities in southern Maryland are installing cameras to monitor the cameras monitoring auto traffic.
Bad news comrades: Russian strongman Vladimir Putin is not who you think he is. All of those photos of him capturing endangered snow leopards, scuba diving in the Black Sea and hunting Siberian wildlife? Staged. Choreographed. Totally pre-cooked!
Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke is sick of sitting on the sidelines and on Thursday announced an aggressive new plan to boost the economic recovery by pushing down longer-term interest rates.
Everyday Americans spout off hours upon hours of offensive statements about Islam. So how on Earth did a poorly-produced, wildly obscure 14-minute YouTube clip spark violent uprisings from Yemen to Afghanistan to Algeria to Egypt?
The biggest international news story of the month may be based on a total fraud. That's the sinking feeling reporters are getting about Muslim Innocence, the so-called "film" attributed to a flurry of riots from Algeria to Gaza to Egypt to Afghanistan.
For the next two weeks, the right has delivered President Obama a clear ultimatum: Meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or face constant nagging about every single non-essential appointment you make.
From banning YouTube in Afghanistan to nationwide protests in Egypt, the outrage cycle is far from over following the release of an anti-Islam movie by a Israeli-American filmmaker Sam Bacile.
Few biographical details are known about the Israeli-American filmmaker who enraged Muslims yesterday with his incendiary film about the Prophet Muhammed. But one thing is clear: Director Sam Bacile expected his film to incite violence.
Fending off a malicious smear that went viral yesterday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has denied any affection he allegedly has or had for the loathed rock group Nickelback.
The haze of confusion surrounding the abrupt stroming of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo today is beginning to clear up.
Dick Cheney picked the wrong day to criticize Barack Obama for not paying close enough attention to presidential daily briefings.
The imprisoned Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden's compound, Dr. Shakil Afridi, managed to make a phone call to Fox News' Dominic Di-Natale and describe the brutal tortue he says he's been subject to since being arrested for treason last year.
CBS News anchor Scott Pelley was stunned when the ex-Navy SEAL author of No Easy Day told him members of SEAL Team 6 were napping on the helicopter ride over to Osama bin Laden's hideout. But one explanation that occurs often in the book is that members of SEAL Team 6, apparently, are extensive users of potent sleeping pills such as Ambien.
When George Will described American football as a liberal institution in his weekend column for The Washington Post, the missive was discarded as an outgrowth of Will's reactionary crankiness.
On Monday, the U.S. National Archive released 1,000 declassified documents pertaining to the 1940 massacre of 22,000 Poles by the Soviet Union. The Cliffs Notes version? America's coverup of the infamous Katyn Massacre was more extensive than previously thought.
A second charity is refusing to accept donations from former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, author of the bestelling book No Easy Day about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, The Atlantic Wire has confirmed.
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