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Bin Laden son-in-law to face conspiracy charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden faces arraignment on Friday in a federal court in New York, where he is ...
'Argo' storms to Oscar victory on night of surprises
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Argo" stormed to Best Picture victory at the Oscars on Sunday on a night of surprises that...
Best Picture contenders produce $2 billion box office bounty
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The movie studios behind this year's Best Picture nominees already have brought home a treasured ...
Amusement park planned in Pakistan town where bin Laden lived
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan plans to build a $30 million amusement park and outdoor activity centre on the ed...
Obama urges end to political name-calling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged Americans on Monday to reject political "absolutism" and partis...
'Argo' scores sweet Golden Globe victory
BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - Iran hostage drama "Argo" scored a sweet double victory at the Golden Globe a...
Politics to blame for 'Zero Dark Thirty' Oscar snub?
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kathryn Bigelow's snub by Academy Awards voters stunned her cast and awards pundits on Thursday, ...
Hollywood heats up with Oscars, Golden Globes
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Hollywood award season moves into high gear this week as a slew of televised nominations and awar...
Politicians critical of fictional 'Zero Dark Thirty' torture scene
Filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have defended the depiction of torture in their new movie "Zero Dark Thirty&quo...
'Lincoln' leads Golden Globe nominations
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Civil War-era drama "Lincoln" led the Golden Globe nominations on Thursday with seven ...
After Libya misfire, pressure on Romney in foreign policy debate
BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney face off on Monday in their third and final debat...
Locked in tight race, Obama and Romney trade jokes at dinner
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Locked in a tense race with time running out, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romn...
'I take responsibility' for Benghazi: Clinton
LIMA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton assumed responsibility on Monday for last month's deadly ...
Before debate, Romney calls Obama weak on foreign policy
BURLINGTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney launched a fresh attempt on Monday to pa...
Obama warns Iran on nuclear bid, containment 'no option'
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will warn Iran on Tuesday that the United States will "do what we must"...
Yemeni protesters storm U.S. embassy in Sanaa
DUBAI (Reuters) - Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Thursday in protest at a film they co...
Obama unites hope with realism in pitch for re-election
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - President Barack Obama asked Americans on Thursday for patience in rebuilding the weak ...
Michelle Obama says change takes time
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - First lady Michelle Obama acknowledged on Tuesday that the change her husband Barack Ob...
Obama, Democrats to make their case as convention opens
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democrats launch their case for U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election at his no...
Pentagon threatens legal action over bin Laden book
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon warned on Thursday that it was considering legal action against a former U.S. Navy SEAL f...
Navy SEAL's book gives different account of bin Laden death
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy SEAL who has authored a first-hand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden says th...
Sept. 11 attacks, Katrina top list of memorable TV moments
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Watching news coverage of the September 11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina disaster, and the O.J. Simpson ...
Obama vows "we remember, we rebuild" at World Trade Center
By Laura MacInnisNEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Thursday toured the soaring sky...
Al Qaeda No. 2 killed in drone strike: U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Abu Yahya al Libi, a Libyan-born top al Qaeda leader, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan ea...
White House said to give inside access for bin Laden film
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration arranged for two Hollywood filmmakers to get special access to government off...
Prosecutors say ready for long haul in 9/11 case
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Prosecutors and defense attorneys for five defendants in the September 11 at...
Obama swoops into Afghanistan on bin Laden anniversary
BAGRAM AIRBASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - President Barack Obama marked the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death with a s...
Obama in Afghanistan on anniversary of bin Laden's death
KABUL (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday to sign an agreement charting future relations wit...
Five arrested in U.S. plot to blow up bridge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities arrested five self-described anarchists in the Cleveland area for allegedly plotting ...
Obama seeks political advantage of bin Laden death
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday reminded Americans that his likely Republican opponent in the Novembe...
Obama, Kimmel jab at Romney at WH dinner (VIDEO)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama poked fun at his likely presidential rival Mitt Romney and Republican opponents...
Obama, Romney tweak strategies for tight race
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After months of casting Republican Mitt Romney as someone who often changes positions for political co...
Senate probe finds little evidence of effective 'torture'
(Reuters) - A nearly three-year-long investigation by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats is expected to find there is li...
U.S. on guard for attacks ahead of bin Laden anniversary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has reviewed potential threats to the United States before next week's anni...
Shooting zombies is the fad among gun enthusiasts
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - One of Patrick Flanagan's favorite movies as a kid was "Night of the Living Dead," a 1968...
Romney defines hawkish yet murky foreign policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As he locks down the Republican nomination for U.S. president, Mitt Romney is framing what looks to be...
Analysis: U.S. Civilian Courts Await Extradited Militants
By Mark HosenballWASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the Obama administration declared it wanted to put suspects involved in the Sept...
Pakistan jails bin Laden's family for illegal stay
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court charged former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters w...
U.S. commandos free two hostages in Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - U.S. special forces swooped into Somalia on Wednesday and rescued an American and a Dane after a shooto...
Hello Heidi to bye bye bunga bunga in 2011 odd news
LONDON (Reuters) - Bunga Bunga, Zenga Zenga, a tweeting cobra and other wacky news capped a year that saw the capture of Amer...
U.S. Probe Cites Mistakes in Deadly Air Strike
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A U.S. military investigation has found American and Afghan commandos wrongly concluded ther...
Jury finds man guilty of aiding al Qaeda
BOSTON (Reuters) - A jury on Tuesday found a Massachusetts man guilty of supporting al Qaeda by translating Arabic messages a...
Time names 'The Protester' Person of the Year
NEW YORK (Reuters) - From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movement, "The Protester" was named Time magazi...
Pakistan warns NATO attack threatens Afghanistan peace bid
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan ratcheted up pressure on NATO on Monday over a cross-border attack that killed 24 Pakistani so...
NYC police say arrest 'lone wolf' in bomb plot
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police arrested a 27-year-old man they called a "lone wolf" militant on charges of pl...
Obama: Gaddafi death a warning to iron-fist rulers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama hailed Muammar Gaddafi's death on Thursday as a warning to authoritarian leader...
'Underwear bomber' pleads guilty in court
DETROIT (Reuters) - A Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb in his underwea...
Romney says would exert U.S. leadership globally
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will vow on Friday to exert U.S. leaders...
Secret panel can put Americans on 'kill list'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of s...
Pakistan says U.S. pressure on militants must end
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States must stop blaming Islamabad for regional instability, Pakistan's prime minister told ...
Pakistan turns to China as ties with U.S. suffer
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan, facing a crisis in relations with the United States, appears to be seeking more support from ...
Gunmen kill five on Pakistan school bus
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on a school bus on Tuesday which kille...
Obama, Bush see raw emotions at 9/11 events
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama picked up where his predecessor George W. Bush left off in the war against Isla...
With grief, America marks 9/11
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Children yearned for lost parents and grown men and women sobbed in raw grief on the hard stone bearin...
Obama: U.S. stronger 10 years after 9/11
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Saturday the United States was stronger 10 years after the September 11...
Al Qaeda shadow of former self 10 years after 9/11
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's core leadership is badly wounded and almost certainly incapable of mounting another attack ...
Tony Blair: No regrets about befriending Gaddafi
LONDON (Reuters) - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he has no regrets about helping bring former Libyan leader M...
Post-9/11 U.S. intelligence reforms take root
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies will forever be scarred by their failure to connect the dots and detect the...
Governor Perry comes out swinging at debate
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry came out swinging in his national debut on Wednesday, all but c...
Distant lives come together on 9/11's front lines
COMBAT OUTPOST PASHMUL SOUTH, Afghanistan/NORAK, Pakistan, (Reuters)- New Yorker Danny Sjursen's Afghanistan war ought to be ...
9/11 has few rewards for Hollywood
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It was a disastrous attack that played out live on television 10 years ago, riveting a horrified nati...
Suspected suicide bombing kills 10 in Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected suicide car bomb attack killed 10 people in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan prov...
Al Qaeda No 2's death not yet confirmed: Pakistan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan still had no confirmation on Monday that al Qaeda's deputy chief had been kil...
US official: Al-Qaida's No. 2 killed in Pakistan
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Obama administration official says al-Qaida No. 2 leader, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been kil...
Obama's approval rating on economy hits new low
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Approval of President Barack Obama's handling of the U.S. economy has fallen to a new low of 26 percen...
Obama: 'Lone wolf terrorist' biggest U.S. threat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A decade after the 9/11 attacks, a "lone wolf terrorist" like the shooter in Norway now pres...
Obama pays respects, questions remain in Afghan crash
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware (Reuters) - President Barack Obama honored 30 U.S. soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Af...