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Washington - The system worked. Authorities responded to the attempted Times Square bombing about as well as anyone possibly could — proving, once again, that viewing terrorism exclusively in …

Washington - The Pentagon Thursday banned four reporters, including one from McClatchy Newspapers, from covering future military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, charging that they'd violated ground rules by …

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - To get teen terror suspect Omar Khadr to cooperate, a former U.S. Army interrogator testified Thursday, he told the wounded Canadian a “fictitious” tale of …

The current drumbeat of commentary on the right that the Obama administration was too slow in responding to the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf raises two obvious …

With Venezuela's economy having contracted last year (as did the vast majority of economies in the Western Hemisphere), the economy suffering from electricity shortages, and the value of domestic …

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Writing about U.S. Middle East policy used to be a boring job. You'd start out with “The U.S. supports Israel's stand on...” and then just fill in the details. …

In last night’s NBA playoffs game, the Phoenix Suns beat the San Antonio Spurs 110-102. The team won this Cinco de Mayo game wearing its “Los Suns” jerseys, a …

An Uneven Contest: What if there were a great debate concerning the nature and future of American society, and only one side showed up? That approximately describes the condition …

Buenos Aires, Argentina - Martinez de Hoz, the minister of economy during Argentina's last dictatorship, was arrested Tuesday at his home in the upscale Retiro neighborhood in Buenos Aires. …