Chile's former military ruler General Augusto Pinochet dies at the age of 91 - a week after entering hospital in Santiago to receive treatment for a heart attack.

Islamic militants are flouting a recent peace deal and fortifying alliances with Al Qaeda and foreign fighters, creating a virtual Taliban mini-state.

MANCHESTER, N.H., Dec. 10 -- The political phenomenon known as Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) descended Sunday on the state with the nation's first presidential primary, drawing enthusiastic crowds and trailed by a huge media horde as he continued to stoke interest in a possible bid for the White House...

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Administration officials said many of the proposals are impractical or unrealistic and are racing to come up with alternatives.

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Iraqi bureaucrats are so fearful and confused by anticorruption measures that they are afraid to sign off on contracts.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 10 -- A few blocks from Ali Farouk's three-story home, an empty house provides a glimpse of what he fears will be the future. Once owned by a Sunni Muslim, the paint is peeling, the windows are blown out. Two scarlet X's mark the pale blue front door.

A growing number of programs use taxpayer funds to pay for evangelism aimed at prisoners, recovering addicts, job seekers and teenagers.

A military watchdog group is asking the Defense Department to investigate whether seven Army and Air Force officers violated regulations by appearing in uniform in a promotional video for an evangelical Christian organization.

U.S. Rep. William Jefferson easily defeated his fellow Democratic opponent in a runoff election Saturday, despite an ongoing federal bribery investigation.

Entering the office of incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can be a bit of an intimidating experience. It has the austere look one would expect of such a room and it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the fact that the man who has just become the most powerful person in the United States Senate occupies that space. That is, until you meet Harry Reid himself. Senator Reid gave me 30 minutes of prime time on his last day as the Senate Minority Leader on Friday and, from the moment I was ushered into his office, Reid gave a welcome that quickly made me feel more like I was talking to an unassuming country lawyer than the man who will chart the Senate's legislative course for the next two years. In addition to the warm welcome, I was struck over the course of our visit by something that I've learned to spot in life and that's readily

Senator Barack Obama visited the key campaign state selling a message of hope but proclaiming himself wary of the “hype” surrounding him.

At the height of the Mark Foley scandal in October -- when Democrats were pounding Denny Hastert and company on a daily basis for having taken no action despite knowing about the emails sent by Foley to at least one page (and for lying about their past knowledge) -- Democratic Congressman (and DCCC Chair) Rahm Emanuel went on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos (along with GOP Rep. Adam Putnam). I haven't been able to find a full transcript, but the full video is here, and this article provides an account of the segment. All week long, Republicans had been insisting that the Foley scandal was a Democratic "dirty trick," speculating that Democrats -- specifically the DCCC of which Emanuel was the Chair -- were just as aware of the Foley e-mails as various GOP House Leaders were, and they accused Democrats (with no evidence) of

On the Senate floor Thursday night, Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR) said Bush’s Iraq policy “may even be criminal.” This morning on ABC’s This Week, Smith elaborated on his criticism of Bush, calling his Iraq policy a “dereliction” and “deeply immoral.” Smith said the death of ten soldiers on Wednesday made him go from “steamed to

The re-election of Representative William J. Jefferson, who is under an F.B.I. investigation, highlighted the racial divisions in New Orleans.

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When the State Department recently asked the CIA for names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in a clandestine nuclear weapons program, the agency refused, citing a large workload and a desire to protect its sources and tradecraft.

In the summer of 2003, shoppers in Southern California began getting a break on the price of milk.

Biden on This Week: Everyone from John McCain, who says it a different way, to Joe Biden, to -- across the board -- is saying, we have one last shot to figure out how to deal with the chaos in Iraq. If we can't, you better get out. Joe Biden, Imus, 8/17/06: Because there's a civil war, and you got to -- if there's a civil war, Don, where you have the Mahdi army, as well as what they call the Badr Brigade, which is the Iranian-trained outfit that works for the -- that's the Shia outfit with the Dawa (inaudible) party. If those guys start shooting at the same time the insurgents are, all the king's horses and all the king's men aren't going to keep that country together again. We've got one last shot here to separate these parties, and you have to do it politically. And if you don't do the kind of thing we did in Dayton when we settled the

There was no early mention of a fourth man, and some officers did not remember firing, according to a report on the Queens shooting.

There is no getting out of the Middle East. U.S. actions in this Gulf war have dramatically increased the likelihood of future conflicts.

SECRET talks in which senior American officials came face-to-face with some of their most bitter enemies in the Iraqi insurgency broke down after two months of meetings, rebel commanders have disclosed. The meetings, hosted by Iyad Allawi, Iraq’s