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By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over new reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for cooperation from a former Cold War foe in no mood to agree.

An emotional Timothy Westfield on Wednesday told a Criminal Court jury how he was shot and how his friend Bernard Hughes was murdered almost three years ago at the British Woods Apartments.

A man who was convicted in the rape of a 15-year-old girl in New York State has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for not registering as a sex offender after moving to Niota, Tn.

WASHINGTON: A US lawmaker said on Monday he is blocking $75m in aid to war-torn Afghanistan until President Barack Obama's administration provides information on alleged "secret cash payments" to President Hamid Karzai.

Two pragmatic Senate Republicans are working furiously with Senate immigration reformers to strike a compromise on a package of amendments to the bipartisan reform bill, offering up the Senate's most realistic chance of passing a reform bill with the slew of GOP votes that the bill's authors have long coveted.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Gang of Eight's immigration bill can pass the Senate in its current form, although he's open to border security changes that don't destroy the bill's pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

Last week, several U.S. senators opted to leave Washington, D.C., early rather than attend a closed briefing made by top intelligence officials regarding the gathering of phone and Internet communication records.

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden thumped his chest today in response to being branded a traitor by former Vice President Dick Cheney.

The bailout and government ownership of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been tumultuous at best.

Congress is preparing to address an issue that has loomed for five years: the fate of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

More than a dozen people gathered in Krutch Park Monday to show their support for immigration reforms that don't involve mass deportation and detention.

Senator Bob Corker says he's holding up $75 million in U.S. assistance to Afghanistan until he gets answers from the Obama administration about alleged cash payments from the CIA to Afghan President Hamid Karzai .

The Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Monday he is holding up millions of dollars in U.S. aid to Afghanistan until President Barack Obama's administration explains the rationale behind more than a decade of cash payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Iran's presidential elections offered a rare opportunity for the world's media spotlight to shift from focusing on Iranian officials, donning white lab coats flanked by metallic centrifuges, to the Iranian people.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force which gives the president wide military powers to pursue al-Qaida and the Taliban.

SmartSpace LLC is a small business I started 20 years ago in Nashville. We own and operate 700,000 square feet of office space -- once-vacant buildings that we repurposed into sustainable buildings where economic activity and jobs thrive.

Betting on Congress to do anything is about as risky a bet as you can make, but Bruce Berkowitz is willing to make it.

Hamilton County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to the 8500 block of Ooltewah-Georgetown Road early Thursday afternoon to check on the well-being of a male resident who had threatened to harm himself.

The latest rendering of the Uranium Processing Facility, the multibillion-dollar production facility to be constructed at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge.

Following a White House announcement that President Barack Obama will authorize his administration to provide arms and training to Syrian rebels, Sen. Bob Corker, a longtime backer of aiding Syrian opposition groups, offered comment and urged the president to exercise caution.