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The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing Wednesday to determine whether allegations of prisoner abuse at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are true.

The possibility of White House senior aide Karl Rove as the anonymous source in the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name highlights the push-and-pull relationship between the White House press secretary and the press corps.

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers, who will step down from his post this September, speaks with Jim Lehrer about military challenges in Iraq and Afghanistan, his role as military adviser to the president, and his relationship with Sec. of…

A federal judge sentenced New York Times reporter Judith Miller to jail Wednesday for refusing to divulge her source to a grand jury investigating the administration's leak of a CIA operative's identity. Two media experts analyze the sentencing and what…

The International Olympic Committee early Wednesday chose London to host the 2012 Summer Games over Paris, the early favorite. Social sciences professor and Olympic historian John MacAloon talks about the Olympics bidding process.