Obama blasts 'least productive Congress in modern history'
2014-04-10 09:37:48
President Barack Obama sharply criticized what he called the least productive U.S. Congress in modern history on Wednesday in a fund-raising speech that he used to try to energize Democrats to vote in November congressional elections.
22 injured in Pennsylvania school stabbing
2014-04-10 07:32:38
A 16-year-old student wielding two knives went on a stabbing rampage in the hallways of a Pittsburgh-area high school, injuring 22 people before he was tackled by an assistant principal.
21 injured in Pennsylvania school
2014-04-10 07:32:38
A 16-year-old student wielding two knives went on a stabbing rampage in the hallways of a Pittsburgh-area high school early on Wednesday, injuring 21 people before he was tackled by an assistant principal.
US secretly fed political satire to Cuba in social media
2014-04-10 07:23:05
Draft messages produced for a Twitter-like service in Cuba that the US government secretly funded were overtly political.
20 students hurt in US school stabbing
2014-04-09 22:51:11
About 20 students were injured Wednesday morning after a stabbing spree inside a high school in the US State of Pennsylvanian at the start of the school day.
Hillary 'thinking' about 2016 WH run
2014-04-09 15:40:34
Asked again the question on the mind of everyone who follows US politics, Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday she was "thinking" about running for president in 2016.
US: Iran's UN envoy choice `not viable'
2014-04-09 09:36:23
The United States notified Iran's government on Tuesday that Tehran's pick for a new U.N. envoy is "not viable," a day after the U.S. Senate voted against letting the diplomat enter the country.
Museum to return stolen Bible manuscript
2014-04-09 07:15:23
The J. Paul Getty Museum said on Monday it will return a 12th-century New Testament manuscript to a monastery in Greece after museum officials learned it was stolen decades before the museum acquired it in 1983.
Maria Contreras-Sweet sworn in as SBA Administrator
2014-04-08 12:39:43
Maria Contreras-Sweet is ceremonially sworn-in as Administrator of the Small Business Administration by Vice-President Joe Biden (R) at the White House in Washington April 7, 2014.
US Senate approves jobless-benefits bill
2014-04-08 09:52:23
The US Senate passed legislation to renew a program of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed that expired last December, but the bill faced an uphill climb in the House of Representatives.
China tours by Pentagon chiefs
2014-04-08 07:19:09
Brown visited China, the first US secretary of defense to visit China since 1949.
Chinese military institutions visited by US officials
2014-04-08 07:16:14
Here are some of the Chinese military institutions that top US military officials have visited.