Archive for December, 2009

Terror suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab appears to have had direct contacts with radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. counterterrorism official told CNN Thursday.

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama’s pick to lead the Transportation Security Administration has provided Congress inconsistent reports about — and regrets for — running background checks on his then-estranged wife’s boyfriend two…

MAIDAN SHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Trucks gayly painted with hearts and doves jam up at crowded wayside bazaars. Billboards advertise cell phones and advise drivers to keep their donkeys off the road.

It’s not readily evident that this is probably the…

After losing the White House and nearly 70 congressional seats in the last two elections, Republicans are poised for a strong comeback in 2010, with significant gains likely in the House and a good chance of boosting their numbers in the Senate and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and had not been searched, two former U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.

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The Obama administration pledged Thursday to close gaps in the intelligence system that enabled a suspected terrorist carrying explosives to board a U.S.-bound plane, and vowed to create a better system for sharing and analyzing the information that…

KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii (AP) — President Barack Obama went golfing on New Year’s Eve.

The president hit the links at Mid-Pacific Country Club in the same Honolulu suburb of Kailua where he’s renting a beachfront home for the holidays.

Obama earlier…

A state ethics panel has fined three one-time top aides to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich for using state resources to issue a news release supporting Barack Obama as he launched his presidential campaign in 2007.

The Illinois Executive Ethics Commission…