President Obama?s big speech on counterterrorism policy was interrupted by Medea Benjamin,co-founder of Code Pink,

Yemen officials cheered President Barack Obama?s decision to resume the transfers of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.

A feud between Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) and the Senate?s tea-party faction over budget strategy erupted on the Senate floor.

Former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft said the top U.S. priority in Syria should be to work with Russia to arrange a cease-fire rather than to arm Syrian rebels or establish a no-fly zone in the country.

Lawyers for the company that challenged President Obama's recess appointments to the NLRB filed a response with the high court and also asked it to hear the case.

President Barack Obama is reasserting his case that closing Guantanamo is crucial to U.S. counterterrorism goals, and is making a defense of the controversial drone program, in a speech at the National Defense University. Here is the text of his speech, as prepared for delivery.

President Barack Obama issued this statement Thursday on the attack in London that left a British soldier dead.

The House Oversight & Government Reform Committee might recall Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the latest controversy, to testify.

Penny Pritzker told a Senate committee that President Obama said he picked her to help improve his relationship with businesses.

Secretary of State John Kerry, in the middle of his fourth trip to the Middle East, is deeply invested in the peace process. On Thursday, he went all in?stopping his motorcade on a busy street in Ramallah, in the West Bank. He chose a popular schawarma shop--Samer?s Restaurant--to sample traditional Palestinian fare.