A settlement in a landmark lawsuit against two psychologists who helped design the CIA's harsh interrogation methods used in the war on terror marked the first time the agency or its private contractors have been held accountable for the program, legal experts said Thursday. The ...
What kind of president will Donald Trump be regarding sports? U.S. presidents have a tradition of throwing out the first ball to open a Major League Baseball season. They are also known for welcoming World Series winners and champion teams from other sports leagues to ...
Former President George Bush plans to vote for Hillary Clinton in November, the niece of President John F. Kennedy wrote in a Facebook posting. "The President told me he's voting for Hillary!!" read the caption of a picture Kathleen Kennedy Townsend posted on Facebook, as ...
What happens if a candidate for the White House is forced to quit the race? Who steps up to fill their shoes? It's a question suddenly under the spotlight Monday as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton battles a case of pneumonia that left her feeling so ...
America commemorated the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Sunday with emotional services of remembrance in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania to honor those who perished in the world's deadliest terror strikes. On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaida operatives crashed four passenger jets, two into ...
The reverberations of the decision to invade Iraq may well obscure the lessons of the Chilcot report.
Former President George W. Bush had every intention of sticking to his self-imposed exile from politics, but found that the phone kept ringing with appeals from Republican U.S. Senate candidates for help, friends say. As a result, Bush has embarked on a rescue mission to ...
The Republican-led House voted convincingly Wednesday to approve a $602 billion defense policy bill after rejecting attempts by Democrats to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to repeal the war powers President Barack Obama relies on to fight the Islamic State. The ...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday considered a contentious amendment that would repeal the 14-year-old war powers President Barack Obama is using to battle Islamic State extremists and force Congress to approve new authorization. The measure, authored by Rep. Barbara Lee, a California Democrat, is ...
George W. Bush never mentioned Donald Trump. But with his folksy touch, the former president unleashed a tough takedown Monday of the billionaire businessman who has upended a Republican Party his family has long led. "I understand Americans are angry and frustrated," Bush said during ...
George W. Bush won a bruising South Carolina presidential primary on his way to the Oval Office, as his father did before him. Now it's his brother's turn, and for Jeb Bush, the most consequential foreign policy decisions of his brother's time in office are ...
For much of the 2016 Republican primary, conventional wisdom has had it that former President George W. Bush is something of a liability to his brother Jeb's struggling campaign. But for at least one top Republican in South Carolina—the state that holds the American South's ...
