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Congressional Republicans have had little luck convincing anyone other than Fox News and its viewers that there's something scandalous about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazie. But to keep the story's momentum going a feedback loop has emerged in which Fox reports something, the House holds hearings on it, and then Fox reports on those hearings.
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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.
When conservative commentators saw President Obama's campaign site was selling a flag with his "O" symbol subbed in for the stars, they saw blood. Literally!
American intelligence officials insist that the attack on the Benghazi consulate last week was not pre-planned, but a new CNN report says that Ambassador Chris Stevens had expressed concerns about the safety of the mission in the months before his death.
There's a pattern emerging to Mitt Romney's worst gaffes: his biggest political missteps come whenever he repeats something the conservative opinion complex has already repeated endlessly. Instead of being the candidate that conservative bloggers feared as a moderate, he's been exactly the candidate they wanted. And he's losing.
A new video surfaced over the weekend showing a group of unknown men pulling Ambassador Christopher Stevens from the burned-out wreckage of the American consulate in Benghazi. But who are they and why where they there?
Thoughtfulness has flown out the window out Newsweek this week, as Tina Brown traded in a little bit of integrity and placed her bets on Islamophobia being a big seller with the magazine's screaming "Muslim Rage" cover.
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.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeals to American audiences during his appearance on Meet the Press. Elsewhere, John McCain, Mike Rogers, George Will and Libyan President Mohamed Yousef El-Magariaf discuss the protests at U.S. embassies across the world.
At the ceremony to mark the arrival of the remains of the four diplomats who died in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised their service and promised not to "retreat from the world."
Mitt Romney's campaign so thoroughly believes in the power of its no-apologies-for-America foreign policy that it bought an ad on a Twitter hashtag mocking it.
Libyan officials say they have arrested four people in connection with the attack on the Benghazi embassy, though it isn't clear what role they might have played in the assault.
Amid the belief that the attack in Benghazi was the work of premeditated terrorists, there's a report from the British newspaper The Independent saying the State Department had advance warning of an attack and decided not to do anything. A Department rep. called it "absolutely wrong."
The conservative backlash to the backlash to Mitt Romney's comments on the attacks on U.S. embassies in Cairo and Benghazi Wednesday goes like this: You media people said you wanted Romney to talk about foreign policy, and now he is. What's the problem?
The timeline of events at the American embassies in Cairo and Benghazi offers insights into two key things: Whether the White House's first response was really to apologize to attackers and how Mitt Romney decided to attack the response.
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As members of the crew who worked on Muslim Innocence speak out, we're learning more and more about the mysterious man behind the movie, allegedly named Sam Bacile, what the real cost of production was, whether the movie played anywhere, or what it was originally about.
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.
Just like not all Americans are like the people who made the weird anti-Islam movie that is sparking protests in Muslim nations, not all people in Libya are like the ones who killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens.
Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl said the U.S. embassy in Cairo's condemnation of an anti-Muslim film as bigotry amid protests was "like a judge telling the woman that got raped, you asked for it because of the way you dressed," The New York Times's Jonathan Weisman reports.
CNN reports that the United States will send unmanned drones to Libya to look for jihadist camps, as the White House now accepts the belief that the Benghazi attack was the premeditated work of terrorists.
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.
Mitt Romney's attack on President Obama for the "disgraceful" decision to "sympathize" with the murderers -- and his decision to stick with the political attack in a press conference Wednesday -- "is likely to be seen as one of the most craven and ill-advised tactical moves in this entire campaign," Time's Mark Halperin says.
New photos have been released from the burned-out American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that show what remains of the damaged buildings in the light of day.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Republican nominee Mitt Romney, and now President Obama have all spoken about the murders in Libya.
Mitt Romney is speaking in Jacksonville, Florida today where he's addressing the attacks in Libya and Egypt. He believes that President Obama should still be held responsible for the statement made by the embassy in Egypt.
There is always a group of people for whom it is never too soon to analyze four Americans' murder for possible partisan gain.
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.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the attack in Libya which claimed the life of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
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Republicans saw yesterday's protests in the Middle East as an opportunity to hit the president over foreign policy, but the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has fundamentally altered that debate.
Reuters is reporting that four Americans were killed in the attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, and that one was the U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
One American citizen is dead in Libya after militants attacked the U.S. consulate there over the same controversial video that inspired protestors to storm the American consulate in Egypt on Tuesday.
Human Rights Watch has released a new report claiming that CIA agents arrested and tortured opponents of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi before turning suspects over to his regime.
It feels like déjà vu all over again: France, which led the charge for military intervention in Libya last year, is now backing a partial no-fly zone in Syria—a step that would for all practical purposes amount to a declaration of war.
As the battle for Aleppo continues, Syrian rebels and President Bashar al-Assad are ramping up outreach to their respective allies.
In a rare interview with German TV, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad dismissed the idea that he and Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi have anything in common, but we can help him think of at least a few things.
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Scary news out of Libya today: It appears that there has been an rocket-propelled grenade attack on a British convoy in the country.
According to his press over the years, if there was a Renaissance man among al Qaeda's senior leadership, it was Abu Yahya al-Libi, the terror network's deputy leader who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan on Monday.
The Tripoli International Airport, which handles about 30 flights in and out a day, has been shut down after it was attacked by "at least two dozen armed militiamen," according to the BBC.
Just when you thought Muammar Qaddafi's murderous legacy was beginning to fade, his former mercenaries go and destabilize one of West Africa's most tranquil democracies.
House Speaker John Boehner split with his fellow Republican John McCain in saying military action in Syria was "premature," a position similar to the one he took on Libya last year but that this time puts him on the same side of the debate as President Barack Obama.
Muammar Qaddafi's son and heir apparent, Saif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, is alive and in the custody of a Libyan rebel militia, but while he's physically well, his situation and his future are as uncertain as the status of Libya's own government.
One of Muammar Qaddafi's sons tried to flee into Mexico on a fake passport, that country says, but authorities there stopped him before he and his family could make it to a luxury home near Puerto Vallarta.
After claims emerged yesterday that former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, who The New York Times describes as "Qaddafi's brutal enforcer," had been captured, the United States now says there's no proof he's in custody.
The last major figure from Muammar Qaddafi's ousted regime has been captured: Intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi.
The U.S. suspect that an illegal cache of "hundreds of special artillery shells for chemical weapons" found in Libya were supplied to Muammar Qaddafi, according to a report from The Washington Post.
The son of the former Libyan strongman, once expected to succeed his father in control of the country, was taken by rebel fighters in the south of the country.
Today in books: A memorable speech from poet Nikky Finney at the National Book Awards ceremony last night, Penguin's lending self-publishing authors a counter-intuitive helping hand, and Libya's ceremonial "unbanning" of books.
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