MIAMI -- More than 21/2 years since Miami police shot and killed seven black men within seven months, and despite pleas for action from a member of Congress, the U.S. Justice Department hasn't finished its civil rights investigation of the city ...
WASHINGTON -- White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said Sunday that "the scope and scale" of assistance to Syrian rebels will expand, based on evidence that the Assad government is gaining ground in the protracted civil war and that it may ...
WASHINGTON -- Five years ago, when Americans had not yet made up their minds on their choice for president, Europe had. More than 200,000 people crowded the streets of Berlin -- a favorite backdrop for U.S. politicians reaching for history -- to ...
WASHINGTON -- As President Barack Obama prepares to go to Northern Ireland on Sunday to promote a new trade pact with the European Union, hopes are running high for many U.S. businesses eager to squeeze more cash from one of the world's most ...
WASHINGTON -- Former National Security Agency contract employee Edward Snowden used a computer thumb drive, a portable data storage device that is supposedly barred inside the spying agency, to smuggle highly classified documents out of an NSA ...
WASHINGTON -- Chemical weapons experts voiced skepticism Friday about U.S. claims that the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad had used the nerve agent sarin against rebels on at least four occasions this spring, saying that while the use ...