Politics

  • Oversight board concerned about NSA surveillance

    The chairman of the group that President Barack Obama says will meet with him to discuss the National Security Agency's secret surveillance program is expressing concerns about the program and says the group will publish a report about its inquiry.

  • Obama making plans to tackle global warming

    President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term.

  • World powers to meet on Syrian rebel demands

    World powers will meet this weekend in Qatar to decide on how to answer a list of requests for help from Syrian rebels, a French diplomat said Wednesday.

  • Bipartisan proposal on student loans circulating

    Students applying for financial aid for the coming school year could find some comfort in a bipartisan student loan compromise taking shape in the Senate that would prevent interest rates from doubling and set a single rate each year for undergraduate students, rich or poor.

  • Senators seek cost cuts for F-35 fighter jet

    Senators sought cost-cutting opportunities Wednesday in the Pentagon's $400 billion program for the next-generation F-35, a fighter jet with a troubled testing record that military leaders said America couldn't afford not to build.

  • Obama's Berlin speech: History raises the stakes

    Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement.

  • Dem senator presses Pentagon on Guantanamo feeding

    The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says she opposes the force-feeding of terror suspects at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is pressing the Pentagon to establish a more humane treatment.

  • Russia could stand in way of Obama's nuke cuts

    By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over new reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for cooperation from a former Cold War foe in no mood to agree.

  • Greek coalition talks drag on to end TV crisis

    Greece's governing coalition failed to end a political crisis triggered by the closure of state broadcaster ERT, but said talks would continue Thursday to try to avoid a snap election that could delay vital economic reforms and disrupt the country's bailout program.

  • Republican Sen. Murkowski supports gay marriage

    Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she now supports gay marriage, becoming the third Senate Republican to do so.

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