“I think that it’s important that even as we move forward with President Medvedev that Putin understand that the old Cold War approaches to U.S.-Russian relations is outdated. … Putin has one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new.” President Barack Obama speaking about Russian Prime Minister Vladimir [...]
A former Pennsylvania state senator convicted of a multimillion-dollar fraud is seeking a new trial on corruption charges, alleging the jury was tainted.
In court papers filed Thursday, defense lawyer Dennis Cogan says he discussed the case with a magazine reporter after the trial. He says reporter Ralph Cipriano told him he’d interviewed jurors and they [...]
President Barack Obama said he was confident the US economy would recover, despite new data showing unemployment at a 26-year-high of 9.5 percent, which dampened hopes of a quick rebound.
“As Ive said from the moment I walked into the door of this White House, it took years for us to get into this mess and [...]
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is defending the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and says the rule of law is working in Honduras.
A Republican conservative, DeMint called Zelaya “a Chavez-style dictator,” referring to Venezuelan leftist leader Hugo Chavez, an outspoken critic of the United States.
The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections.
Einstein 3 has triggered debate and privacy concerns because the program will use National Security Agency technology, which is already being employed on military networks.
Newly released Defense Department documents and memos about the first years of operation of the jail at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, portray a chaotic and sometimes violent operation that its own commanders described as dysfunctional.
The documents and memos were turned over to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of a Freedom [...]
A top Republican pressed for more information Thursday about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s ties to a Puerto Rican civil rights group he said took extreme positions on race, as the White House argued that the material was irrelevant to the judge’s nomination.
“During her time there, the organization took extreme positions on legal issues ranging [...]
The attorney representing two same-sex couples who were denied a right to wed in California said on Thursday he expected the case to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has yet to hear a case on the marriage issue.
A high court ruling potentially could trump state laws prohibiting same-sex unions.
The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections.
Einstein 3 has triggered debate and privacy concerns because the program will use National Security Agency technology, which is already being employed on military networks.
With concerns rising about a possible North Korean long-range missile test this weekend, two independent scientists say the rogue regime may be using an old Soviet ballistic missile to boost a rocket capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States.
But the scientists say that if North Korea does have such a Russian-made ballistic [...]
