The disclosure that the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan has expressed opposition to deploying more troops lays bare a fierce debate within the Obama administration.
Military prosecutors have charged Maj. Nadil Malik Hasan with premeditated murder in last week’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Tex., an official said.
He has only a handful of concerts behind him, but the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 28-year-old Venezuelan maestro, Gustavo Dudamel, has had his face plastered across town.
Emergency supplies of antiviral drugs are being sent to Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where hospitals report that they are being overwhelmed by patients with swine flu.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.