Posted: 8:17 AM The training has been taking place since late last year at an unspecified location, concentrating largely on Sunnis and tribal Bedouins who formerly served as members of the Syrian army.
Posted: 8:15 AM The new Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman presides over hearings on North Korea and counterterrorism, travels to Afghanistan and Pakistan and meets privately with foreign ministers and ambassadors.
Posted: 8:12 AM Tickets to the two arguments that begin Tuesday are technically free. But getting them requires lining up days or hours ahead, or paying someone else to.
Posted: 8:11 AM President Barack Obama challenged Congress Monday to "finish the job" of finalizing legislation aimed at overhauling the nation's immigration system.
Posted: 8:09 AM Justices heard arguments from the Justice Department against what the government calls "pay-for-delay" deals or "reverse settlements."
Posted: 7:46 AM A woman from California says she and her lesbian partner will attend the gay marriage argument at the Supreme Court, courtesy of her cousin, Chief Justice John Roberts.
Posted: 7:11 AM U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met again Tuesday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a day after they put on a show of unity as they tried to end recent bickering over anti-American comments made by the Afghan leader.
Posted: 6:48 AM The anticipated retirement announcement from South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson gives Republicans one of their best chances of picking up a seat in their quest to regain control, as the veteran moderate Democrat steps aside.
Posted: 6:45 AM "My client is absolutely, 1,000-percent not guilty," public defender Kevin Gough, who represents 17-year-old De'Marquise Elkins, told The Associated Press.
Posted: 5:32 AM The Senate version is to be heard first in the Senate Finance Committee, and the companion bill is scheduled for later in the House Transportation Committee.
Posted: 12:55 PM The Supreme Court is broadening its examination of affirmative action by adding a case about Michigan's effort to ban consideration of race in college admissions.
Posted: 12:44 PM President Barack Obama says he expects Congress to take up debate on an immigration bill next month so that he can sign it into law as soon as possible.
Posted: 11:03 AM The Obama administration has angered Tennessee's U.S. senators by nominating energy-efficiency expert Marilyn Brown for a full term on the TVA board.
Posted: 8:41 AM John Kerry has flown into Afghanistan on an unannounced visit to see President Hamid Karzai amid concerns the Afghan president may be jeopardizing progress in the war against extremism with anti-American rhetoric.
Posted: 8:35 AM Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan said on CBS "Face the Nation" on Sunday that he doesn't want to lure the United States into a "big boots, on-the-ground conflict."
Posted: 8:33 AM Given the choice of whether to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care law, many Republican governors and lawmakers initially responded with an emphatic "no."
Posted: 8:08 AM Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki on Sunday said he's committed to ending the backlog in 2015 by replacing paper with electronic records.
Posted: 8:05 AM The statement from the former adviser to President George W. Bush appears to acknowledge that opposition to gay marriage has waned in some conservative circles.
Posted: 7:03 AM Big change is coming to the lives of the lesbian couple at the center of the fight for same-sex marriage in California no matter how the Supreme Court decides their case.
Posted: 7:03 AM Federal regulators are pressing the Supreme Court to stop big pharmaceutical corporations from paying generic drug competitors to delay releasing their cheaper versions of brand-name drugs.
Posted: 6:03 AM The measure was amended in a House committee last week to remove the use of student IDs. Less than a week before, the full Senate voted 21-8 to pass a bill to allow such IDs.
Posted: 12:47 PM Davidson County Election Commission members have reversed an earlier decision to review some registered voters' citizenship status.
Posted: 11:41 AM Rep. Glen Casada has a bill scheduled that could be amended to address local government officials' call for a bill to allow them to meet privately as long as a quorum isn't present.
Posted: 7:11 AM Murphy went to Hamilton County Chancery Court with his complaint on Thursday, a week after the county election commission declared former council member Yusuf Hakeem the winner in District 9.
Posted: 6:43 AM The U.S. has strong indications that chemical weapons were not used in the attack in Syria's Aleppo province on Tuesday, a U.S. administration official said Thursday.
