President Barack Obama assailed critics of his Iran nuclear deal Wednesday as “selling a fantasy” to the American people, warning Congress that blocking the accord would damage the nation’s credibility…
By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER A civil lawsuit alleging ethics violations nearly a decade ago has become an issue in a Democratic congresswoman’s bid to unseat first-term Republican U.S. Sen. Mark…
By The Associated Press On two days in August 1945, U.S. planes dropped two atomic bombs — one on Hiroshima, one on Nagasaki, the first and only time nuclear weapons…
By LUCAS L. JOHNSON and KATHLEEN FOODY A gunman unleashed a barrage of fire at a recruiting center and another U.S. military site a few miles apart in Chattanooga on…
Here are the latest developments involving the agreement between the United States, Iran and world powers to limit the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program (all times EDT): 4:08 p.m. A leading…
By LISA LERER and KEN THOMAS Hillary Rodham Clinton’s embrace of a landmark nuclear deal with Iran as a worthwhile agreement that also needs strict enforcement underscores the tension between…
By DEB RIECHMANN President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday that Russia poses the greatest threat to U.S. national security and it would be…
By HAMZA HENDAWI, QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE They are the Islamic State group’s elite shock troops. Fanatical and disciplined, they infiltrate cities of Iraq and Syria, unleash mayhem and…
