Death of Osama bin Laden (2011)

Benghazi: The Obama spin continues

2013-05-12 05:00:00

"Bumps in the road." — President Barack Obama on the unrest in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East that included the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, an information officer, and two Navy SEALS. "Crude and disgusting"… "an...

Sanford and Hicks go to Congress, The CIA goes to Hollywood and CNN stays put

2013-05-08 07:10:00

Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has been elected to the House (or at least that's where we hear he's going). Welcome to your trends report for Monday, May 8, 2013. Sanford will head to Capitol Hill after facing off against Elizabeth...

John C. Ford Jr., cryptanalyst during World War II

2013-03-11 00:00:00

John C. Ford Jr., who as a young World War II cryptanalyst was part of a team whose work resulted in the shooting down of the bomber carrying Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, died Wednesday from respiratory failure at a son's Arnold home. He was 94....

Targeting Hillary

2013-01-25 00:00:00

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's swan song before the Senate and House committees on foreign affairs was in a sense a prelude to any future bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. It gave Republicans a last chance to cast her as an...

Torture helped get bin Laden?

2013-02-07 03:00:00

"Zero Dark Thirty," the film about the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden, got a fresh infusion of buzz over the weekend when outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta confirmed again that enhanced interrogation techniques aided the effort to find...

Hope, cynicism run high for second Obama term

2013-01-19 12:28:00

— Four years after he rode into the White House on a message of change, President Barack Obama is set to begin his second term Monday amid lowered expectations and a sense that his re-election has done little to alter the nation's fractured...

Obama for president

2012-11-02 09:30:00

Barack Obama has not been a perfect president. Millions are still suffering from a weak economy, vitally important issues like climate change and immigration remain all but unaddressed, and most disappointingly, the promise of a new politics to move us...

Panetta tells Naval Academy graduates to look to Asia-Pacific

2012-05-29 15:16:00

With Osama bin Laden dead, the war in Iraq over and the war in Afghanistan winding down, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told graduating midshipmen Tuesday to prepare themselves for "one of the key projects" of their generation: building American...

Libya crisis the latest chapter in Obama's foreign policy follies

2012-10-04 00:00:00

We're now entering the fourth week of the "CSI: Benghazi" hostage crisis. That's how long an FBI forensic team has been trying to gain access in Libya to what the State Department still calls a crime scene -- the Obamaadministration's preferred term for...

Romney's bizarre neo-con dalliance

2012-09-17 12:27:00

Its candidate having blundered into unfamiliar foreign-policy territory by accusing President Barack Obama of apologizing in the current Mideast crisis, the Romney campaign has now bizarrely compounded the political misstep by throwing more fuel on the...

At Morgan State, Michelle Obama urges supporters to work

2012-09-22 14:06:00

While polls show President Barack Obama beginning to widen his lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney nationally and in key states, first lady Michelle Obama had a message for supporters Friday at Morgan State University: Take nothing for granted. "As my...

Obama missteps facilitated Libyan attack

2012-09-24 04:30:00

After a week of President Barack Obama's typical lying fashion, his administration finally admitted that the terrorist assault on the American consulate in Benghazi and the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens was a preplanned operation by anti-...

Construction workers watch as the 408-foot spire is hoisted onto a temporary platform on the top of One World Trade Center in New York City. The raising of the spire, which comes on the second anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, will make One World Trade Center 1,776 feet tall.

2013-05-02 00:00:00

For those notable successes alone, we would endorse Mr. Obama for a second term.

2012-11-05 12:33:00

Although The Sun noted with some disappointment that President Obama had not moved Washington past the political stalemate between Republicans and Democrats -- if anything, the problem got worse during his term -- it supported him based on the strength of his accomplishments: a return to economic

2012-11-05 00:00:00