January 12, 2017 Obama administration under pressure to turn attention back to Iraq As Al Qaeda-aligned insurgents make unprecedented post-war gains in Iraq, U.S. military officials and others in the Obama administration are keeping their distance.
January 12, 2017 Lawmakers urge new US strategy as Boko Haram rampages through Africa One of the most brutal and murderous Islamist militant groups has been steadily gaining ground, inflicting a streak of atrocities shocking by even their standards -- and it's not Al Qaeda or the Islamic State.
January 12, 2017 US often powerless when terror groups, rogue regimes hold Americans Judy Gross lives just minutes away from the corridors of power in the mightiest nation in the world, but her husband is in a jail cell some 1,200 miles away and no one seems able to help.
January 12, 2017 With same-sex marriage legal, State Dept. to phase out benefits for domestic partners The State Department is ending benefits for domestic partners. Why? Because now they can get married.
January 11, 2017 US designates Indonesian group as terrorist organization The United States designated an Indonesian radical group behind an attack in Jakarta as a terrorist organization on Tuesday.
January 9, 2017 Iran set to receive huge shipment of natural uranium from Russia amid lawmakers' concerns Iran is set to receive a massive shipment of natural uranium from Russia -- enough, potentially, for several bombs, diplomats said Monday, highlighting a move that could give the Islamic Republic major leverage if the U.S. tries dismantling the controversial nuclear deal.
January 9, 2017 Kerry sorry for past State Department discrimination against gays Secretary of State John Kerry is publicly apologizing for the State Department's institutional discrimination in the past against gay and lesbian diplomats.
January 6, 2017 New whistleblower policy could give move to defund the UN a boost Six months after a United Nations watchdog report suggested better protection for UN whistleblowers, the global bureaucracy is about to produce a policy that could make a bad situation for those employees a lot worse.
January 6, 2017 North Korea's nuclear capability growing every day, top US diplomat warns North Korea's weapons capabilities have shown a "qualitative improvement" in the past year, the No. 2 U.S. diplomat said Thursday.
January 5, 2017 Email Headache Returns: New Clinton messages show passwords, schedules flowed freely The election’s over – but Hillary Clinton’s emails are still coming to light. And they help illustrate why the FBI declared she was “extremely careless” with the information flowing across her secret server.