January 29, 2010  |   The Obama administration is considering relocating the trial of the accused 9/11 mastermind out of Manhattan, White House officials told the Associated Press. When Attorney General Eric Holder announced in November that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would stand trial on U.S....

January 27, 2010  |   President Barack Obama will deliver his first State of the Union address Wednesday night to a nation and Congress that have become increasingly frustrated and concerned with the foundering economy and health care reform. In his speech, scheduled for 9...

January 19, 2010  |   Updated 1:20pm ET Aid to Haiti continues to be slow-moving one week after its capital, Port-au-Prince, was heavily damaged by a 7.0 earthquake. The Washington Post is reporting that security has become the primary concern there, and has limited...

January 18, 2010  |   Taliban militants launched a brazen series of attacks in the Afghan capital Monday, including an assault just 50 feet from the gates of the presidential palace. Hundreds of Afghan commandos descended on the scene, attempting to protect Pashtunistan Square, which...

January 18, 2010  |   Six days after the massive earthquake in Haiti, a chaotic aid situation is continuing to plague quake victims in their search for basic needs. On Monday, thousands of troops, doctors and aid workers arrived to distribute much-needed relief for the...

January 12, 2010  |   An international custody battle brought the Supreme Court's attention back to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction Tuesday morning, 30 years after the convention was established. At issue is a convention clause that requires a country to return a...

January 8, 2010  |   Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man accused of attempting to blow up a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day, entered a not guilty plea during his arraignment Friday in a federal courtroom in Detroit. The 23-year-old Nigerian suspect said little during a...

January 8, 2010  |   The U.S. unemployment rate remained steady at 10 percent for the second straight month, according to a report from the Labor Department. Although that might signal some economic stability, U.S. employers cut 85,000 jobs in December, suggesting that broader recovery...

January 7, 2010  |   The American public will learn on Thursday of the government missteps that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to get on a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit on Christmas Day. The Obama administration is set to release an account of the events...

January 6, 2010  |   --Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, Conn., has decided not to seek re-election in November. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.) Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd, a five-term Democrat and chair of the Senate Banking Committee, has decided not to seek...

January 5, 2010  |   The U.S. embassy in Yemen reopened its doors Tuesday after a two-day closure, saying Yemeni forces had successfully addressed security fears brought on by al-Qaida groups in that country. Despite reopening the embassy, U.S. officials cautioned Americans in Yemen "to...

January 4, 2010  |   Starting Monday, citizens from 14 nations, including those that the United States considers "state sponsors of terrorism," will face more stringent security guidelines when traveling through American airports. The Obama administration announced over the weekend that passengers from these countries...

December 18, 2009  |   This post was updated at 12:18pm ET. In their struggle to secure the 60 votes necessary to pass health care legislation, Democrats in the Senate made slight inroads early Friday morning, blocking a potential GOP filibuster apparently aimed to delay...

December 11, 2009  |   House leaders moved closer Thursday night to approving a sweeping overhaul of the country's financial regulatory system. If enacted, the bill "would mark the largest revamp to the country's financial regulatory regime since the Great Depression," reports the Washington Post,...

December 10, 2009  |   --President Barack Obama holds his Nobel Peace Prize next to Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, during a ceremony Thursday in Oslo. (Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images.)   President Barack Obama traveled to Oslo Thursday to accept...

December 9, 2009  |   This post was updated at 1:12pm ET. --Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday night that Democratic senators reached a resolution over a dispute on a proposed government-run health insurance plan. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Senate Democrats cleared...

December 8, 2009  |   The Supreme Court heard arguments today for two cases that raise challenges to a federal anti-corruption provision that has been instrumental in the prosecution of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, former Illinois Gov. George Ryan and Enron executives, according to the...

December 8, 2009  |   --Iraqi and U.S. soldiers secure the site of Tuesday's bomb blast on Cairo Street in northern Baghdad. (Photo by Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images) More than 100 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in a series of coordinated car bombings...

December 7, 2009  |   -- A U.S. soldier shakes hands with villagers during a patrol in the Narang district of the eastern Kunar province in Afghanistan on Sunday. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images) Several news organizations over the weekend focused their attention to...