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In response to a court order in an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, the Obama administration released a redacted version of a document outlining the federal government's policy on drone strikes. The disclosure of the 18-page presidential policy guidance, or PPG, follows the May 2013 release of a "fact sheet" describing the document.
This Oct. 23, 1983 file photo shows the scene around the U.S. Marine Base near Beirut Airport following a massive bomb blast that destroyed the base and caused a huge death told rising to 239, in Beirut, Lebanon. Iran's former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written a letter to President Barack Obama, that was posted Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, on a website associated with the former president's office, asking him to "quickly fix" a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could cost Iran some $2 billion.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are laying out their proposals for the economy this week -- and wasting no time exchanging fire over whose plan is best for America. In Detroit on Monday, Trump is set to outline an economic plan that calls for a ban on new financial regulations, a repeal of the estate tax and more items that his advisers argue will benefit the middle class.
Ali Jawwad reports that the US has just given Iraq four more F-16 jets. This is apparently part of a bribe from the White House to secure armed forces attacking Mosul in time for the reported "October surprise" Barack Obama has planned to throw the election to Hillary Clinton.
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton basked in a diplomatic "Moscow Spring," seizing on Vladimir Putin's break from the presidency to help seal a nuclear arms-control treaty and secure Russia's acquiescence to a NATO-led military intervention in Libya. When Putin returned to the top job, things changed.
Donald Trump has started whining about the presidential debates, perhaps setting the stage for skipping them. It should be a reminder that the tradition of televised presidential debates has always been something of a miracle - one that didn't have to become established, and one that could end fairly easily.
Pennsylvania matters. The Trump and Clinton campaigns will spend millions in this state to nudge the needle a few percentage points one way or the other.
After a successful trial in rhesus monkeys, a team of researchers, including doctors from Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is ready to start testing a Zika virus vaccine in humans, they announced this week.
Although few Americans are paying attention, the race to succeed Ban Ki-moon as United Nations secretary-general is well under way. The first Security Council "straw vote" took place in July; the second on Friday.
Among likely voters in Arizona, CBS/YouGov finds Republican nominee Donald Trump leading by only 2 points. Incorporating that into the In Virginia, Trump is 12 points behind the Democratic nominee among likely voters, according to the CBS/YouGov poll.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the 2016 National Association of Black Journalists' and National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Hall of Fame Luncheon at Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016.
Several private universities are boosting stipends and benefits ahead of a federal ruling that could clear the way for graduate students to form unions. To some grad students, it's an attempt to persuade them that they don't need collective bargaining to get a raise.
Japan on Saturday marked the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by renewing calls for a world free of nuclear weapons and by urging leaders to follow the example of President Barack Obama and visit the bomb sites. A crowd of 50,000 people at Hiroshima's Peace Park prays Saturday for the victims of the atomic bombing of the city, marking ... A woman lights a candle as she prays Saturday for the atomic bomb victims in front of the cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Mem... Quoting part of Obama's May speech in Hiroshima, Mayor Kazumi Matsui urged countries with nuclear weapons to "have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without them."
Barack Obama listened to Eminem backstage at the Democratic National Convention . In a new video that goes behind the scenes at the event, the US President can be seen enjoying the rapper's track, 'Lose Yourself'.
Republican Donald Trump questioned Democrat Hillary Clinton's fitness to be president Saturday night, saying "she's got problems" and that Americans "don't want someone who's going to short-circuit." Trump told a crowd of supporters that he's not sure the former first lady and secretary of state is up to the job.
President Barack Obama's seventh and final summer vacation at Martha's Vineyard has begun with hopes of getting in some relaxing time with the first family before the busy fall leading up to November's presidential election. Obama will fill the next two weeks with leisurely rounds of golf, beach outings, bike rides and hikes with his wife and daughters, and dinner with Mrs. Obama and their friends at some of the island's top restaurants.
President Barack Obama's seventh and final summer vacation at Martha's Vineyard has begun with hopes of getting in some relaxing time with the first family before the busy fall leading up to November's presidential election. Obama will fill the next two weeks with leisurely rounds of golf, beach outings, bike rides and hikes with his wife and daughters, and dinner with Mrs. Obama and their friends at some of the island's top restaurants.
President Obama celebrated his 55th birthday - his last before leaving office - with a big White House bash jam-packed with Hollywood A-listers. Attendees included talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi , Common , Fonzworth Bentley, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, NBC's Al Roker , George Lucas , interim chair of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile, retired basketball player Grant Hill, "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts, Sarah Jessica Parker , Pusha T, Samuel L. Jackson , Nick Jonas , who took a break from his tour with Demi Lovato , called the evening "A night I will never forget" on Twitter.