December 16, 2011  |   On Thursday's NewsHour, Ray Suarez talked with Vanity Fair contributing editor David Margolick about his new book, "Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock." The book tells the story of how an iconic civil rights era photograph changed the...

August 26, 2011  |   Forty-eight years after he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Jr. now has a permanent presence on the National Mall with this week's opening of the...

August 2, 2011  |   Updated 3 p.m. ET: Here's video of the president's Rose Garden statement, courtesy of the AP: Updated 12:25 p.m. ET: The president's statement has been slightly delayed due to the vote in the Senate. Stay tuned. Posted 10:52 a.m. ET...

May 6, 2011  |   A statement posted on militant websites and attributed to al-Qaida appears to confirm the killing of Osama bin Laden and warned of retaliation, saying Americans' "happiness will turn to sadness." The AP reports that the Internet statement was dated...

May 5, 2011  |   President Barack Obama meets with members of the national security team on the Osama bin Laden operation. New details about the Sunday raid on Osama bin Laden's fortified compound in Pakistan indicate that...

May 4, 2011  |   Updated 5:12 p.m. ET | President Obama told CBS News Wednesday that he has decided against releasing photos of Osama bin Laden's body: In an interview with Steve Kroft for this Sunday's 60 Minutes, President Obama says he won't...

May 3, 2011  |   As U.S. lawmakers continue to question what Pakistan knew or did not know about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden prior to the al-Qaida terrorist leader's death on Sunday, Pakistan's president, for his part, said any claim that his...

May 2, 2011  |   As the world processes the news that Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. military operation in Pakistan, we collected some of the most insightful and informative pieces of reading on the terror leader --...

April 11, 2011  |   One month after the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, 2-year-old Ayaka and family members pray for her missing grandmother and great-grandmother at a vacant lot where they lived in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture. Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images. As Japan...

March 21, 2011  |   Smoke rose from two reactor units at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant Monday, stopping work to reconnect power lines and fix cooling systems to Japan's nuclear complex damaged by the March 11 earthquake. What caused the smoke from Unit 3...

December 21, 2010  |   Massachusetts GOP Sen. Scott Brown, left, shakes hands with Jason Meininger, special assistant to Sen. John Kerry D-Mass., after a closed session about New START on Monday. Brown announced that he will support the treaty and said that he...

November 4, 2010  |   A red flag at a relocation camp in Port-au-Prince warns Haitians of approaching Tropical Storm Tomas. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. The Haitian government has called for the voluntary evacuation of all its earthquake zone camps ahead of Friday,...

November 1, 2010  |   Yemeni security guard a UPS branch in Sanaa. Photo by Mohammad Huwais/AFP/Getty Images. President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said that the two package bombs addressed to Chicago synagogues and intercepted by authorities in Britain and Dubai last...

October 29, 2010  |   The economy grew this summer at a slightly faster rate than last summer, as the Commerce Department said Friday that the economy expanded at a 2 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter. It is an improvement from the...

October 28, 2010  |   Villagers find shelter under a destroyed house on the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra. Photo by Bay IsmoyoAFP/Getty Images. The death toll from the tsunami that struck Indonesia rose to 343 Thursday as more bodies were found on remote...

October 27, 2010  |   Volunteers search for victims after Mount Merapi erupted near Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images. A thick layer of dust coated villages on the Indonesian island of Java after Mount Merapi began spewing lava and ash on Tuesday....

October 26, 2010  |   Updated 10:36 a.m. ET The AP reports that the death toll from a tsunami in western Indonesia has risen to at least 113 people. The new figure comes from the country's health ministry crisis center. Posted 10:20 a.m. ET At...

October 22, 2010  |   The WikiLeaks website is close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is "the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history." The Associated Press reports that the documents include hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports compiled after the 2003 invasion...

October 21, 2010  |   A federal appeals court late Wednesday issued an emergency stay of a judge's order halting the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, temporarily granting the Obama administration's request for a freeze on the order. The three-judge panel of the 9th...

October 20, 2010  |   Protesters run away from French riot police during clashes in Lyon. Photo by Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images. French riot police forced union workers away from blocked fuel depots in western France on Wednesday as strikes against government plans to increase...

October 19, 2010  |   Protesters in Lyon protect themselves from police tear gas during a demonstration against France's government pensions reform. Photo by Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images. Protesters clashed with police and set fires in cities across France on Tuesday as opposition to a...

October 18, 2010  |   A federal judge is hearing arguments Monday in a lawsuit brought by the Virginia attorney general challenging one of the major tenets of the health care reform law. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's suit alleges that the individual mandate --...

October 8, 2010  |   Protesters in Hong Kong demonstrate to free Liu Xiaobo outside the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday. Photo by Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images. Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday "for his long and non-violent...

October 7, 2010  |   Mario Vargas Llosa. Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images. The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and...

October 7, 2010  |   The toxic red sludge that has been winding its way though villages in Hungary this week -- the result of a metal plant reservoir that burst its banks -- reached parts of the Danube River on Thursday, an emergency official...

October 6, 2010  |   Tankers carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan burn Wednesday following an attack in Pakistan. Photo by Banaras Khan/AFP/Getty Secret, high-level talks over a negotiated end to the Afghan war have taken place between Taliban representatives and the government...

October 5, 2010  |   Updated 12:30 p.m. ET | Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-born man who confessed to trying to blow up a car bomb in Times Square in May, was sentenced Tuesday to a mandatory life term in prison. Shahzad, 31, defended his...

October 4, 2010  |   French Army soldiers patrol the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday. Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images. The State Department issued a travel alert Sunday, cautioning Americans visiting Europe of possible terrorist attack by al-Qaida or other groups. The alert...

October 1, 2010  |   Militants in southern Pakistan attacked more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan on Friday, a day after Pakistan closed a major border crossing in the northwest. There were no reports of anyone killed or injured....

September 30, 2010  |   AIG said Thursday it has reached a deal to repay the Federal Reserve Bank of New York billions of dollars it received during the credit crisis. The plan announced Thursday could return a sizable profit to taxpayers. The New...

September 29, 2010  |   British police officers on patrol in London on Wednesday. Photo by Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images. Security officials is Europe say a terror plot to wage a shooting spree in Britain, France and Germany is still a threat and authorities are...

September 28, 2010  |   The C.I.A. has drastically increased bombing in the mountains of Pakistan as part of an effort to cripple the Taliban, lower U.S. casualties in Afghanistan and foil a suspected terrorist plot against European targets, according to reports by the New...

September 27, 2010  |   Children of Israeli settlers walk past the construction site for 50 housing units in the West Bank settlement of Ariel. Photo by Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images. With the 10-month ban on building in West Bank settlements expired as of Sunday...

September 24, 2010  |   A day after encouraging the international community to support Middle East peace talks and speaking about the importance of human rights and democracy in ensuring a stable world economy and global security, President Obama on Friday will attend a high-level...

September 23, 2010  |   President Obama shakes hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. The president will address the General Assembly and world leaders on Thursday. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. In a speech to the annual session of the United Nations General...

September 22, 2010  |   President Obama "urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him," according to a new book by Washington Post journalist...

September 21, 2010  |   File photo of a U.S. UH-60 Black Hawk military helicopter. Photo by Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images. A NATO helicopter crashed Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, killing nine NATO troops. Some reports indicate that the soldiers were American. The cause of the...

September 20, 2010  |   Afghan election workers move ballot boxes to the Independent Election Commission warehouse in Kabul on Monday. Photo by Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images. The Free and Fair Elections Foundation of Afghanistan, an independent observer group, is voicing "serious concerns" about the...

September 17, 2010  |   An Afghan election worker and a donkey carry voting materials to a remote mountainous village in Shotol. Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images. On the eve of Saturday's parliamentary elections, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is urging citizens to vote despite...

September 16, 2010  |   President Obama is expected to name Elizabeth Warren as a special adviser to oversee the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau set up under the financial reform law, avoiding a potentially contentious Senate confirmation hearing. Warren is the...

September 15, 2010  |   U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a joint raid in Fallujah early Wednesday, killing seven people, Iraqi officials said. The raid comes two weeks after President Obama declared the end of combat operations in Iraq. Insurgents have intensified their strikes on...

September 14, 2010  |   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell gather for the second round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Photo by...

September 13, 2010  |   Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines international flight on Christmas Day is returning to court Monday, following reports that his lawyers have talked to prosecutors several times about a plea deal....

September 10, 2010  |   Austan Goolsbee is expected to be named chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg. President Obama is expected to choose one of his longtime economic advisers, Austan Goolsbee, to be the chairman of his Council...

September 8, 2010  |   In a 193-page report posted on its website Wednesday, British oil company BP partly blamed itself for the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and the disastrous Gulf of Mexico spill, as well as companies Transocean and Halliburton and a complex...

September 7, 2010  |   Indonesian demonstrators rally outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta to protest a Florida church's plans to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11. Photo by Aldo Utama/AFP/Getty Images. Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. and...

September 6, 2010  |   Happy Labor Day! Here's a roundup of some labor-inspired reading on what -- we hope -- is your day off from work. Or if you're one of the 14.9 million unemployed Americans looking for work,...

September 6, 2010  |   President Obama plans to outline a long-term infrastructure proposal at a Labor Day event in Milwaukee that would improve the nation's roads, railways and airport runways and cost at least $50 billion. The infrastructure investments are one part of a...

September 2, 2010  |   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on Wednesday. Photo by Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images. The day after meeting with President Obama at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...

August 31, 2010  |   Five U.S. troops were killed by roadside bombs and insurgent fire in southern and eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday. Outside Kabul, a gunman opened fire on a bus transporting Afghan Supreme Court clerks, killing three and wounding 12. Since Friday, 21...

August 30, 2010  |   Updated 12:29 EDT | Seven American service members were killed Monday in two separate roadside bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, NATO said. Witnesses in the southern city of Kandahar said an armored U.S. Army Humvee hit a roadside bomb in...

August 26, 2010  |   Pakistani villagers evacuate Sajawal in Sindh province on Thursday. Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images. The United Nations says it is reviewing security measures for its aid workers in Pakistan, the BBC reports, after a warning of new threats from...

August 25, 2010  |   A U.S. soldier looks at the scene of a car bombing in the city of Kirkuk, one of a series of apparently coordinated attacks across Iraq on Wednesday. Marwan Ibrahim/AFP/Getty Images. Bombers and gunmen launched a series of attacks...

August 24, 2010  |   As reported Monday evening, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the Obama administration's guidelines expanding embryonic stem cell research. U.S. Chief District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that government funding of embryonic stem-cell research violates the Dickey Wicker Amendment, which...

August 23, 2010  |   Pakistani flood victims stand in line for food in Sukkur on Monday. Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images. The United Nations said Monday that it has now raised about 70 percent of the $460 million it needs to provide emergency...

August 20, 2010  |   Updated 12:00p.m. EST Secretary of State Clinton and special Mideast envoy George Mitchell announced details on the upcoming Israeli-Palestinain peace talks as expected Friday morning. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will resume direct talks in...

August 19, 2010  |   Seven years and five months after the start of the war in Iraq, the last American combat troops have been making their way out of the country. Troops from the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, moved across the border...

August 18, 2010  |   Pakistanis walk in the flooded area of Shah Jamal on Wednesday. Photo by Banaras Khan/AFP/Getty Images. The picture of devestation from the floods in Pakistan continues to worsen Wednesday. The European Union said it will spend an extra $25...

August 17, 2010  |   A man receives treatment at a Baghdad hospital after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded army recruitment center in the Iraqi capital. Photo by Khalil al-Murshidi/AFP/Getty Images. A suicide bomber killed 61 people Tuesday at an...

August 16, 2010  |   Afghan President Hamid Karzai is setting a four-month deadline for private security companies to cease operations in the country, a government spokesman said Monday. The Associated Press reports that the Interior Ministry has 52 security firms licensed, but some older...

August 13, 2010  |   Updated 3:34 p.m. National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen said Friday that the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is not yet dead, and that BP will proceed with a relief well to permanently kill it. "Everyone...

August 12, 2010  |   The number of U.S. homes lost to foreclosure rose in July, foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday. Lenders repossessed 92,858 properties last month, up 9 percent from June and an increase of 6 percent from July 2009. California remains...

August 11, 2010  |   Crews in the Gulf of Mexico drilling the final feet of a relief well intended to permanently plug BP's oil well will have to wait two to three days as a tropical depression passes over the site. Retired Coast Guard...

August 10, 2010  |   As the Federal Open Market Committee meets Tuesday to decide on interest rate and monetary policy, U.S. investors will be waiting for possible action by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who most believe is thinking of ways to jumpstart the economy....

August 9, 2010  |   Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday that cement forced down the top of BP's blown-out well last week has hardened enough so that workers can begin drilling the final 100 feet of the relief well and seal the...

August 6, 2010  |   Private employers added 71,000 jobs in July, up from a revised 31,000 in June but not nearly enough to help the unemployment rate, which remained unchanged at 9.5 percent. Overall, the economy lost 131,000 jobs in July, the Labor Department...

August 5, 2010  |   BP plans to start pumping cement into its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, one day after achieving success with a "static kill." BP said Wednesday it was able to force the oil down with heavy...

August 4, 2010  |   Nearly four months after the worst accidental oil leak in history began in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is claiming a victory in its effort to plug its blown-out oil well. BP said Wednesday that mud forced down the well...

August 3, 2010  |   Crews hoped to begin pumping mud and cement into the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday in what BP officials said could be the permanent fix to the spill. Engineers planned to determine...

July 30, 2010  |   PHOENIX | Much has been made in recent months of the day that Senate Bill 1070 -- Arizona's controversial immigration law -- would go into effect. Everyone was waiting, debating, preparing. In the end, after Judge Susan Bolton's ruling, nothing...

July 27, 2010  |   PHOENIX | As soon as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law in April, grassroots groups started protesting. The high-profile immigration law makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally and requires local...

July 23, 2010  |   With Tropical Storm Bonnie expected to enter the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend, crews have stopped their efforts to plug BP's broken oil well and clean up the waters, halting work on the two relief wells and evacuating ships...

July 22, 2010  |   A storm brewing in the Caribbean is forcing dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico to prepare to evacuate the area where workers are trying to plug BP's oil well and clean the waters. Though the storm will not...

July 21, 2010  |   President Barack Obama is expected Wednesday to sign a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations. "In an ironic touch," notes the Associated Press, President Obama will sign the bill in downtown Washington, D.C., at the Ronald Reagan Building, named after a...

July 20, 2010  |   The federal government and BP continue to keep a close eye on the cap over the broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The cap, though still mostly holding in oil, has some scientists worried. The New Orleans Times-Picayune...

July 19, 2010  |   Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday morning that BP will be allowed to keep the cap on the oil well in the Gulf of Mexico for another day despite a seep in the sea floor. BP has...

July 16, 2010  |   Updated 5:33 p.m. ET The results of pressure tests on the shut-in oil well have not been ideal over the past 24 hours, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said Friday afternoon -- but the well will remain closed for at...

July 15, 2010  |   The U.S. Senate is planning a final vote Thursday on a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations. At least three Republicans, 55 Democrats and two independents are expected to support the bill, providing the 60 votes needed to overcome Republican procedural...

July 14, 2010  |   Oil continued to flow into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday as the plan to start slowly shutting off valves on the new cap over the well was suddenly halted. Government officials and BP said further analysis must be done...

July 13, 2010  |   BP on Tuesday will begin testing the new, tight-fitting cap on top of the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico to see if it will hold and stop oil from spilling for the first time in nearly three months....

July 12, 2010  |   BP continues to install a tighter cap over its leaking oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, saying it is ahead of its schedule to get the new, better cap in place. Once the cap...

July 9, 2010  |   Unidentified officials stand near the planes at Vienna airport presumed to be carrying the spies being swapped by the United States and Russia. Photo by Dieter Nagl/AFP/Getty Images. The United States and Russia completed the largest spy swap since...

July 8, 2010  |   A Russian officer guards an entrance to Lefortovo prison in Moscow on Thursday. Photo by Alexey Sazonov/AFP/Getty Images. Armored vehicles arrived Thursday morning at a Moscow prison in preparation for what could be the largest spy swap with the...

July 7, 2010  |   Three American soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb in the southern Afghanistan and a NATO airstrike mistakenly killed five of its Afghan army allies in the east on Wednesday, officials said. The Afghan soldiers were launching an ambush before...

July 6, 2010  |   Strong storms and rough water in the Gulf of Mexico kept oil skimming boats idle Tuesday morning, as BP's oil reached Texas beaches for the first time. The oil has now reached every Gulf state. About a dozen tar balls...

July 5, 2010  |   An oil spill cleanup crew works on July 4 in Pass Christian, Mississippi. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. BP's costs for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster has reached just over $3 billion for capping the well, cleanup...

July 2, 2010  |   The unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent from 9.7 percent, its lowest level in almost a year, the Labor Department said Friday. Payrolls declined by 125,000 in June, and private sector businesses added a net total of 83,000 workers, an...

July 1, 2010  |   Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan speaks with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., before leaving Wednesday's confirmation hearing. Elena Kagan is on her way to confirmation as Supreme Court justice, with the questioning phase over...

June 30, 2010  |   Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan moves one step closer Wednesday to succeeding Justice John Paul Stevens as day three of her confirmation hearings begin in the morning. A Republican-led filibuster to block a confirmation vote seems less likely. Senate Judiciary...

June 29, 2010  |   Elena Kagan is sworn in Monday for her Supreme Court confirmation hearing Day two of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Solicitor General Elena Kagan begin Tuesday morning. With opening statements and introductions by the...

June 28, 2010  |   Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan begin Monday. Monday's hearing is scheduled to begin at around 12:30 p.m. at the Hart Senate Office Building. Each member of...

June 25, 2010  |   Conference committee chairman Rep. Barney Frank at Senate-House meetings. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. A sweeping overhaul of Wall Street rules cleared congressional negotiations early Friday after last-minute deals and compromises. Final votes in the House and Senate...

June 24, 2010  |   Engineers repositioned the cap on BP's broken oil well late Wednesday after crews were forced to remove what has been the most effective method for containing some of the Gulf of Mexico spill. The logistics coordinator aboard the ship that...

June 23, 2010  |   President Barack Obama, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaks about Gen. Stanley McChrystal during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Updated 10:40 a.m. | Gen. Stanley...

June 22, 2010  |   Updated 1:30pm ET Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said that Gen. McChrystal made "a significant mistake" and used poor judgment in remarks to a magazine reporter. Gates made the comments in a statement released by the Pentagon: Gen. McChrystal...

June 21, 2010  |   France captain Patrice Evra, left, walks away during an argument with fitness coach Robert Duverne before the start of what was supposed to be a training session. Photo by Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images. Four years after reaching the 2006 World...

June 21, 2010  |   Smoke rises from controlled oil burns on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Photo by Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Two reports out Monday show critical safety lapses on the Deepwater Horizon before it exploded on April...

June 18, 2010  |   A day after BP chief executive Tony Hayward appeared before a congressional hearing on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, reaction to his testimony has been unsurprisingly critical -- he "mastered the art of saying very little very carefully";...

June 17, 2010  |   BP CEO Tony Hayward and other company executives leave the White House following Wednesday's meeting with President Barack Obama. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. A day after meeting with President Obama at the White House and agreeing to a...

June 16, 2010  |   People at a bar in Grand Isle, Louisiana, watch President Barack Obama's address to the nation about the oil spill disaster. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. President Obama will meet with BP executives at the White House on Wednesday,...

June 14, 2010  |   Ethnik Uzbeks cross the border into Uzbekistan as they flee from the southern part of Kyrgyzstan. Photo by AFP/Getty Images. At least 124 people have been killed and some 100,000 minority Uzbeks are massing at the border after three...

June 11, 2010  |   Updated at 2 p.m. ET In a press conference Friday, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said that BP will seek to nearly double its oil-collecting ability by mid-July. On questions around the newly revised estimates on the amount of...

June 10, 2010  |   At least 40 people were killed and more than 70 were wounded Wednesday night when a suicide bomber struck a wedding party in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, considered the birthplace of the Taliban and the focus of an upcoming U.S. military...

June 9, 2010  |   Pundits and voters alike are poring over the results of party primaries and runoffs in 12 states Tuesday, the busiest day yet in this year's congressional and gubernatorial elections. Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas narrowly overcame challenger Lt. Governor...

June 8, 2010  |   A great blue heron stands on an oil containment boom being used to protect Pensacola Beach, Florida. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Internal investigations over the past decade warned BP managers that the company disregarded safety and environmental rules...

June 7, 2010  |   A bird rescue team captures an oiled pelican for cleaning Sunday on Cat Island in Barataria Bay near Grand Isle, Louisiana. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Despite increased estimates over the weekend for the amount of oil BP is...

May 20, 2010  |   Torpedo parts salvaged from the Yellow Sea were displayed at a press conference in Seoul. Photo by Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images. An international civilian-military investigation team said Thursday that evidence overwhelmingly proves a North Korean submarine fired a torpedo that...

April 22, 2010  |   President Barack Obama speaks at Cooper Union in 2008 as a Democratic candidate. Updated 12:00pm ET You can find the full text of President Obama's speech on Wall Street reform here. Posted 9:30am ET...

April 13, 2010  |   President Obama meets with President Hu Jintao of China on Monday at the Nuclear Security Summit. President Barack Obama is set to open the first plenary session of the Nuclear Security Summit on Tuesday...

March 22, 2010  |   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington Monday for talks with the Obama administration. Netanyahu's arrival coincides with a difficult period in U.S.-Israel relations, aggravated by Israel's announcement of plans for new Jewish homes in east Jerusalem. The prime...

March 5, 2010  |   The U.S. unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.7 percent in February, as employers cut a smaller than expected 36,000 jobs, the Labor Department said Friday. The report also revised job loss figures for December and January to show 35,000 fewer...

March 4, 2010  |   A series of blasts targeting voters in Baghdad killed 17 people Thursday, as many Iraqis cast early ballots ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections. The latest violence comes a day after a coordinated attack in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, killed at...

March 1, 2010  |   The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling's appeal of his 2006 conviction for his role in the downfall of the Houston-based energy company. Skilling's attorneys argue that Enron's collapse into bankruptcy in...

February 11, 2010  |   As hundreds of thousands of government supporters rallied Thursday in Tehran to mark the 31st anniversary of the Iranian revolution, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the occasion to declare that Iran had produced its first stock of 20 percent enriched uranium....

February 10, 2010  |   -- A plow removes snow in front of the News Corp building in Manhattan during a snowstorm Wednesday. The second powerful snowstorm to hit the mid-Atlantic and Northeast in less than a week has,...

February 9, 2010  |   Iran began producing higher-grade enriched uranium on Tuesday, its state television reported. Iran's top nuclear official was quoted as saying Iran "had started the 20 percent enrichment ... in Natanz" for use in a Tehran research reactor. The United States...

February 8, 2010  |   President Barack Obama has invited Republican and Democratic leaders to the White House to discuss health care legislation later this month. The half-day meeting would take place Feb. 25 and be televised live. "I want to come back [after the...

February 5, 2010  |   Employers cut 20,000 jobs in January, but the unemployment rate surprisingly fell to a five-month low of 9.7 percent, according to the Labor Department's monthly report on Friday. The jobless rate was 10 percent in November and December. The report...

February 4, 2010  |   Democrats will officially lose their 60-vote majority in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, as Sen.-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass., will be sworn into office a week earlier than expected. Senate Democrats held that position for much of the last year. "Once...

February 3, 2010  |   A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers and three students from a girls' school in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, and in Iraq a bomb planted on a motorcycle killed at least 20 Shiite pilgrims. The American soldiers were in Lower...

February 2, 2010  |   One day after the Obama administration released its $3.8 trillion budget plan, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the president's budget director, Peter Orszag, are set to explain it Tuesday before congressional committees. Also on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Robert Gates...

February 1, 2010  |   President Barack Obama plans to send Congress a $3.83 trillion budget that calls for more money to fight high unemployment and cuts in spending for government programs to reduce a projected record deficit this year. President Obama's plan would raise...