WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State John Kerry defended an international deal to restrict Iran's nuclear program to skeptical lawmakers Tuesday, arguing that more sanctions and less dialogue would backfire and make Tehran only more likely to pursue ...
WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators on Tuesday signed off on tougher restrictions on banks engaged in complex financial trading, finally moving on one of the most complicated portions of the 2010 revamp of financial regulation.
The regulators ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- An ongoing project sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has uncovered a staggering 42,500 camps and ghettos during World War II, ranging from the giants such as Auschwitz and Warsaw to lesser-known factories, ...
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers scurried Tuesday to avoid failing to pass a defense authorization bill for the first time in more than a half-century, as the nation's top military commander warned that further delay might imperil U.S. troops stationed ...
Two top United Nations officials said Tuesday they were concerned about the welfare of a Guantanamo captive the U.S. repatriated to Algeria last week after a decade in the detention center in southeast Cuba.
In joint statement issued from Geneva,...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama can't yet claim to have turned a corner, but he does seem to have stopped a politically damaging slide in public approval for himself and his health care law, new polling data indicate.
After seven months of ...