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Obama to graduates: 'A new feeling about America'
President Barack Obama declared Wednesday the world has a "new feeling about America" and more respect for its leadership, weaving re-election themes ...
Pakistan convicts doctor who helped find bin Laden
A doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden was convicted Wednesday of conspiring against the state and sentenced to 33 years in prison, ...
Obama to address Air Force graduates in Colorado
President Barack Obama is delivering his final commencement speech of the season, addressing graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy before pivoting ...
Officials: 2 foreign doctors, 3 Afghans abducted
Two foreign doctors and their three Afghan colleagues have been kidnapped in a remote area in northeast Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.
Chicago police get high marks for NATO protests
The sight of Chicago police raising billy clubs against demonstrators was the kind of image that has dogged the city's police force longer than most ...
Taliban, Afghan neighbors could hamper NATO's exit
The NATO summit's plan to "responsibly wind down" the Afghan war is not entirely in the hands of President Barack Obama and his fellow world leaders.
Ryan Crocker, ambassador to Afghanistan, to leave
Ryan Crocker, the unflappable diplomat who became the civilian face of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over two administrations, is stepping ...
Turkey says US favorable to sale of armed drones
President Barack Obama's administration is inclined to sell armed drones to Turkey but has to convince Congress first, Turkey's president told ...
Summit doubleheader short on surprises
A long weekend of economic and security summits was heavy on stagecraft and light on surprises. The Group of Eight gathering in Camp David, Md., and ...
Obama snubs Pakistan head over supply routes
In an unmistakable snub, President Barack Obama left Pakistan off a list of nations he thanked Monday for help getting war supplies into Afghanistan.
Who will drones target? Who in the US will decide?
White House counterterror chief John Brennan has seized the lead in guiding the debate on which terror leaders will be targeted for drone attacks or ...
After NATO summit, questions about protest mindset
For activists, the NATO summit in Chicago served as one big stage from which to air a broad range of grievances — not just the war in Afghanistan or ...
Obama on Afghan: Leave on time, no 'perfect' end
President Barack Obama and leaders around the globe locked in place an Afghanistan exit path Monday that will still keep their troops fighting and ...
Obama says Yemen now a hub for foreign terrorists
President Barack Obama says the United States is very worried about al-Qaida terrorism and extremism in Yemen. Obama says Yemen is drawing foreign ...
Obama: US making 'diligent progress' on Pakistan
President Barack Obama says the U.S. is making "diligent progress" on re-opening supply routes from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Obama and Afghanistan's ...
THE RACE: Obama and Romney fight over budget goals
The presidential race is shaping up as a battle between Republican calls for more government austerity and Democratic appeals for more spending to ...
Protesters march through Chicago to NATO summit
Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Chicago on Sunday in one of the city's largest demonstrations in years, airing grievances about war, ...
NATO shifts to help an elusive Afghanistan peace
President Barack Obama and NATO allies declared Sunday that the end of the long and unpopular Afghanistan war is in sight even as they struggled to ...
Police: 45 arrested, 4 officers hurt in protests
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says the protests of the NATO Summit resulted in 45 people being arrested and four officers suffering ...
Hollande: NATO missile defense should worry no one
France's new president said Sunday that Russia and other countries should not feel threatened by the planned NATO missile defense system. Speaking at ...
Hollande sticks to Afghan pullout at NATO summit
France's new president says he's being "pragmatic" with his decision to pull French combat troops out of Afghanistan by the year's end.
NATO officials: No plan to intervene in Syria
United States and NATO officials say the North Atlantic alliance has no intention of intervening militarily to quell violence in Syria.
2 more activists charged related to NATO summit
Prosecutors charged two more activists Sunday with crimes tied to the two-day NATO summit, accusing one of saying he wanted to blow up a downtown ...
Michelle Obama, NATO spouses visit youth center
First lady Michelle Obama and the spouses of NATO heads of state dropped by a Chicago youth center where they watched a hip-hop aerobics class for ...