Just nine days ago, Florida, Georgia and Alabama seemed on the verge of resolving a 17-year-old battle over each state's share of water in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint rivers system. ...more

November 10, 2007

The sweeping security crackdown by Gen. Pervez Musharraf that thwarted a protest rally against his emergency decree by opposition leader Benazir Bhutto left the two adversaries locked in a standoff Friday. ...more

November 10, 2007

For more than five months, the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of President Bush's promotion of democracy in the Muslim world. ...more

November 4, 2007

Bush administration officials are considering granting Guantanamo detainees substantially greater rights as part of an effort to close the detention center and possibly move much of its population to the United States, according to officials involved in the discussions. ...more

November 4, 2007

Gov. Charlie Crist emerged from a meeting Thursday with federal officials and his Georgia and Alabama counterparts saying he is "confident" they will work toward a regional water-crisis plan that protects Floridians. ...more

November 2, 2007

An attempt by Georgia's governor to limit the amount of water released into the Chattahoochee River has reignited a 17-year-old water war with Florida and Georgia. ...more

November 1, 2007

The attack Sept. 6 by Israeli warplanes inside Syria struck what Israeli intelligence thinks was a nuclear-related facility that North Korea was helping to equip, current and former U.S. and Israeli officials say. ...more

September 18, 2007