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Glenn Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of President George W. Bush, in Bethesda, Maryland, June 15, 2011. (Photo: …

Vermont, land of rolling green hills dotted with black and white Holsteins and picturesque red barns. White people, everywhere, lots of them. Home of state-sanctioned town hall meetings that …

Washington - Representative Anthony D. Weiner has told friends that he plans to resign his seat after coming under growing pressure from his Democratic colleagues to leave the House, …

Arizona is burning. Texas, too. New Mexico is next. If you need a grim reminder that an already arid West is burning up and blowing away, here it is. …

US Capitol Building seen from Freedom Square. Organizers are planning a demonstration for October 6 with the intent of recreating Tahrir Square two blocks away from the White House. …

Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan’s army chief, the most powerful man in the country, is fighting to save his position in the face of seething anger from top generals and …

Nuclear safety rules in the United States do not adequately weigh the risk that a single event would knock out electricity from both the grid and from emergency generators, …

Islamabad - Al Qaida moved Thursday to fill the leadership vacuum caused by the death of Osama bin Laden, announcing that his deputy has taken over. …

Dr. Rachel Z. Chatters, a pediatrician, left, examines Draven Smith, eight, who relies on Medicaid, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on March 24, 2011. (Photo: Michael Stravato / The New …

Europe's Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. (Photo: Davide “Dodo” Oliva) Martin Wolf, an economics commentator at The Financial Times wrote a very important column recently on the …