WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has authorized sending weapons to Syrian rebels for the first time, U.S. officials said Thursday, after the White House disclosed that the United States has conclusive evidence President Bashar Assad's...

USA TODAY - The political and diplomatic worlds are buzzing Thursday over a report that former president Bill Clinton disagrees with President Obama on Syria.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's top national security adviser is resigning and will be replaced by Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. who has been a lightning rod for Republican criticism over faulty explanations for the attack...

WASHINGTON -- The military's top uniformed officers acknowledged before a Senate panel Tuesday that they had lost focus on sexual assaults in their services while they also opposed proposals that would remove commanders' discretion to overturn...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John McCain quietly slipped into Syria for a meeting with Syrian rebels on Monday.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers on President Barack Obama's watch, robbing...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner was replaced Thursday as director of the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups.

USA TODAY - Apple CEO Tim Cook went to Washington on Tuesday and calmly defended the tech giant from a scathing Senate panel's report that concluded the company famed for its iPhones and iPads had become similarly infamous for corporate tax avoidance.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Britain's Prince Harry saluted America's war dead in somber remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, pausing, too, to place flowers on the tombstone of John F. Kennedy and visit the grave of a British World War II hero...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A buttoned-down Prince Harry joined Michelle Obama in honoring military families Thursday and toured an exhibition in Congress about land-mines, opening a weeklong U.S. visit devoted to the wounded victims of war. Shrieking...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons could be a greater threat after that nation's president leaves power and could end up targeting Americans at home, lawmakers warned Sunday as they considered a U.S. response that stops short of...