
'Lincoln,' 'Les Mis,' 'Playbook' lead SAG awards
The Civil War saga "Lincoln," the musical "Les Miserables" and the comic drama "Silver Linings Playbook" boosted their Academy Awards prospects ...

Review: 'Zero Dark Thirty' is massive, meticulous
Until the very end, she is described as "The Girl." Even after a relentless, decade-long pursuit that leads to the daring midnight raid of Osama bin ...

Chicago man gets 10 years in suicide-bomber plot
A Chicago man who pleaded guilty to a plot to attend a Somalia training camp with the dream of becoming a suicide bomber was sentenced Tuesday to ...

Hunting bin Laden and history in 'Zero Dark 30'
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal were knee-deep in preparing the follow-up to their Oscar-winning "The Hurt Locker," a film that would chronicle the ...

Crashes raise concern about Pakistani air force
Over a dozen Pakistani air force planes have crashed in roughly the past 18 months, raising concerns about the health of an aging fleet that officials ...

'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Lincoln' make AFI top-10 list
Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty," Steven Spielberg's Civil War epic "Lincoln" and Christopher Nolan's superhero tale "The ...

Pakistan: US drone strike kills al-Qaida commander
A U.S. drone strike has killed an al-Qaida commander in Pakistan's northwest, the second member of the Islamic militant network killed in the area in ...

'Amour' takes top prize from LA film critics
The French-language drama "Amour" was chosen as the year's best film Sunday by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, whose prizes are among a ...
Pakistan: US drone kills senior al-Qaida leader
A U.S. drone strike has killed a senior al-Qaida leader in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials said, in ...

AP-GfK Poll: Obama approval rises postelection
A month after the bitterly fought election, President Barack Obama has his highest approval ratings since the killing of Osama bin Laden, according ...

NBR Awards name 'Zero Dark Thirty' best film
Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" continued to gather awards momentum as the National Board of Review named the Osama bin Laden hunt docudrama the ...

NY Film Critics name 'Zero Dark Thirty' best film
The New York Film Critics Circle named Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" the best film of 2012, voicing its strong support for the grimly ...

1 of FBI's 10 most wanted arrested in Mexico
One of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives was arrested in Mexico and returned to Los Angeles Friday night to face charges of murder, kidnapping and ...

Internal emails offer details on bin Laden burial
Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden's burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional ...

FBI: 4 Calif. men charged in alleged terror plot
Three California men excited at the prospect of training in Afghanistan to become terrorists prepared, authorities say, by simulating combat with ...

Saudi man gets life in prison in US bomb plot
A former Texas college student from Saudi Arabia was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for trying to make a bomb for use in a religious attack, ...

Radical cleric Abu Qatada released from jail
A radical Islamist cleric described by prosecutors as a key al-Qaida operative in Europe was jeered by protesters Tuesday after he was freed from ...

'Medal of Honor' shooter game takes a bullet
The punishment of Navy SEALs who worked on the video game "Medal of Honor: Warfighter" is the latest in a series of misfires for the interactive ...

Radical cleric Abu Qatada wins deportation appeal
A radical Islamist cleric described by prosecutors as a key al-Qaida operative in Europe cannot be deported from Britain to Jordan to face terrorism ...

Obama honors sacrifice made by nation's veterans
President Barack Obama paid tribute at a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery to "the heroes over the generations who have served this ...

Obama, Palin and Jobs join Bartlett's club
So much has changed since we last heard from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," a decade ago. Barack Obama was a state legislator. Sarah Palin was ...

Pentagon moves to silence SEALs about missions
The military is cracking down on special operations troops who share knowledge of their secret missions for profit, punishing seven Navy SEALs, ...

Man behind anti-Muslim film gets 1 year in prison
The man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence in many parts of the Middle East agreed to spend a year in federal prison for unrelated ...