Thousands of people marched through London on Saturday to demand punishment for bankers, power to the poor and protection of the environment at a mass protest meant as a wake-up call to world leaders gathering here this week for an economic summit. ...more

March 29, 2009

The throng of war protesters swelled Saturday as they marched across the Memorial Bridge into Virginia, by the Pentagon and to the offices of defense contractors to mark the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. ...more

March 22, 2009

For one of his first foreign visits, President Barack Obama will call on NATO ally Turkey, an overwhelmingly Muslim country viewed as critical to aiding the U.S. pullout from Iraq, turning around the Afghanistan war and blocking Iran's nuclear ambitions. ...more

March 8, 2009

The family of a Navy pilot missing since his plane was shot down during the Persian Gulf War isn't ready to give up hope that he is alive and say they will oppose any decision to declare him killed in action. ...more

January 5, 2009

The international to-do list President George W. Bush hands to his successor has a lot of boxes marked "incomplete." Some of Bush's foreign policy and security priorities were overtaken by the two expensive wars that outlast him. In other cases, Bush ran out of time or political capital, or was vexed by the realities of a new world where even close allies don't always cater to American whims. ...more

January 4, 2009

Vice President Dick Cheney, who leaves office Jan. 20 as one of the most powerful, if unpopular, vice presidents in recent history, offered an unabashed defense of the Bush administration's claims of broad executive powers Sunday, mocking criticism from Vice President-elect Joe Biden and saying the president "doesn't have to check with anybody" before launching a nuclear attack. ...more

December 22, 2008

President Bush expressed remorse that the global financial crisis has cost jobs and harmed retirement accounts and said he'll back more government intervention if needed to ease the recession. ...more

December 1, 2008

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Sunday, describing the Illinois senator as a "transformational figure." ...more

October 19, 2008

During the Cold War, the United States had a clear, coherent, widely supported national security strategy that focused on containing and deterring Soviet communist expansion. In waging the war on terror, President Bush has embraced a strategy that calls for leveraging American military dominance with preventive military action. ...more

September 28, 2008

WASHINGTON - Republican John McCain agreed to attend the first presidential debate Friday night even though Congress doesn't have a bailout deal, reversing an earlier decision to delay the event until Washington had taken action to address the crisis. ...more

September 26, 2008