Former White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales misled Congress when he claimed the CIA in 2002 approved information that ended up in the 2003 State of the Union speech about Iraq's alleged effort to buy uranium for its nuclear weapons program, a House committee said today. ...more

December 18, 2008

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is seriously ill and might have suffered a stroke weeks ago, an American intelligence official in Washington said Tuesday, after Kim failed to attend an unexpectedly small-scale celebration of his country's 60th anniversary. ...more

September 10, 2008

With his moves last week involving Iraq, Iran and North Korea, President Bush accelerated a shift toward centrist foreign policies, a change that has cheered Democrats, angered some Republicans and roiled the presidential campaign. ...more

July 20, 2008

North Korea agreed to disable its main reactor by the end of October and allow international inspections to verify its nuclear disarmament in a deal reached Saturday at the end of six-nation talks. ...more

July 13, 2008

After the assassination of the archduke in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, Austria got from Kaiser Wilhelm a "blank cheque" to punish Serbia. Germany would follow whatever course its ally chose to take. Austria chose war on Serbia. And World War I resulted. ...more

July 12, 2008

Of the Axis-of-Evil nations named in his State of the Union in 2002, President Bush has often said, "The United States will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." ...more

July 2, 2008

The gray cooling tower crumbled behind billowing dust clouds in seconds Friday, reducing the structure at North Korea's nuclear reactor into a pile of rubble. It was a choreographed show by the communist regime meant to affirm an intention to stop making atomic bombs. ...more

June 28, 2008

U.S. and international investigators say that they have found electronic blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon on computers that belonged to a nuclear smuggling network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist. ...more

June 16, 2008

In a recent interview with the Times of London, President Bush revived a regret that he had expressed before, that he sometimes during the Iraq war resorted to gung-ho language which, he believes, left an impression that he relished the war. That impression, Bush has suggested, was false. ...more

June 16, 2008

President Bush, on the first visit here of his administration, demanded Wednesday that Israelis shut down unauthorized settler outposts on Palestinian territory, called on Palestinian authorities to take steps to halt rocket attacks against Israel, and issued a sharp warning to Iran. ...more

January 10, 2008