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US officials say al-Qaeda had plans to hijack or sink oil tankers in order to prompt a spike in prices and trigger an economic crisis in the West.
The United States searched on Saturday for the culprits behind a plot to bomb Jewish targets in Chicago.
With a BP well spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico for a fifth week and President Barack Obama under pressure to act, legal experts say it is only a matter of time before his…
The second major snowstorm in less than a week slammed the US East Coast from Washington to New York on Tuesday, forcing the United Nations to close.
BAE Systems will pay about $450-million in fines in the United States and Britain, settling long-running corruption investigations.
The Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a US airliner on Christmas Day has provided "useful, actionable" intelligence to US authorities.
US President Barack Obama is "not patient" and is demanding immediate changes in airline security, the top US military officer said on Wednesday.
Intelligence agencies learned an Army psychiatrist contacted an Islamist sympathetic to al-Qaeda and that the information was relayed to authorities.
The Obama administration is close to selecting a location on US soil to house some detainees from the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay.
Seven former heads of the CIA urged President Barack Obama on Friday to end the probe into allegations of abuse of prisoners.
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid halted debate on a -billion rescue Bill late on Thursday, but said lawmakers would resume work Friday.
The United States pledged on Tuesday to pump -billion into its banks, following similar action in Europe, though a threat of recession remained.
G8 leaders sat down to lunch at a hotel with African heads of state on Monday as activists accused the rich nations’ club of backpedalling on pledges.
United States President George Bush urged British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday not to set a timetable for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
Republican rivals Mitt Romney and John McCain clashed on Saturday over how to revive the depressed economy of Michigan, as the most open United States presidential race in…
In a bold bid to turn back a rising financial storm, the United States Federal Reserve on Friday cut a key bank lending rate and signalled a willingness to take more dramatic…
Retired United States Navy medic Charlie Anderson twice thought about committing suicide: once when he feared he would be sent back to Iraq in 2004 and again last year when a…
The United States Federal Reserve sent record payouts of more than -billion in cash to Baghdad on giant pallets aboard military planes shortly before the US gave control back to…
United States President George Bush said on Friday the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was an important milestone on the country’s path to democracy. ”Bringing…
