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Michael Takiff says that despite a cool relationship in the past, the president needs the former president's help in his reelection campaign

A Bosnian immigrant accused of plotting to bomb New York's subway system as an al Qaeda terrorist has been found guilty on all counts.

Keith Ellison says: We accomplished our mission in Afghanistan; bin Laden is dead, al Qaeda is scattered. For the sake of our economy and security, it's time to leave.

Politics is a contact sport, and presidents tend to get tackled on every play, even the ones they've executed perfectly.

The 6-month-old girl whose parents created a "bucket list" blog for their daughter after doctors said she would not live past age 2 died Monday, her father said.

Three of the men claim to be anarchists and they thought about a series of plots before deciding to target the Route 82 bridge, the FBI says.

Steps were being taken to guard against a new threat of "body bombs" planted inside passengers aboard flights heading to the United States from overseas, a government official with knowledge of the threat said Tuesday.

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to China on Tuesday, President Barack Obama was tight-lipped about the whereabouts of escaped Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng and his potential impact on the discussions to be held this week in Beijing.

Long before Chen Guangcheng became internationally known as a human rights crusader, villagers near his home knew him as the man to go to when they had trouble with local authorities.

During the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night, Jimmy Kimmel made a joke that President Obama laughed at, but that you could see was just killing him inside.

The leader of an Amish sect in Ohio, who was indicted on federal charges for allegedly shaving the beards and cutting the hair of community members, must pay for his own legal defense after making millions off an oil-and-gas deal, court documents show.

Homeland Security is launching its own investigation into the scandal involving 24 members of President Obama's security detail for his trip to Colombia last month.

A panel investigating phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid said he is not a "fit and proper person" to run a major international company.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday praised opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's efforts to advance democracy in Myanmar a day after she said she would take the oath of office for the country's parliament despite objecting to its wording.

Dozens of Syrians were slaughtered by regime forces in early morning violence Tuesday, opposition activists said, despite the growing presence of U.N. monitors in the country.

A task force created by Florida Gov. Rick Scott to examine the state's "Stand Your Ground" law in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting meets for the first time Tuesday.

A ferry has sunk in a remote part of northeastern India, killing at least 20 people, a state government official said Monday.

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will learn Tuesday whether a judge will dismiss a civil suit brought against him by the New York hotel housekeeper who accused him of assaulting her last year.

Felipa Fabon sorts through rubbish looking for fast food scraps she'll later cook and sell. It's called pagpag.

There is no better way for historians to assess his thinking and the real state of al-Qaeda than the "treasure trove" of documents that were recovered by the US Navy SEALs, writes Peter Bergen