President Barack Obama is traveling to Texas to promote technology-based education, training and jobs as he seeks support in Congress for economic initiatives he proposed earlier this year, Bloomberg is reporting. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz welcomed President Obama to Texas Thursday, “perhaps he will learn how to create” jobs “from the folks who know […]

The veteran diplomat who oversaw the response to the deadly attacks on U.S. installations in eastern Libya last year offered a riveting account of that frantic night Wednesday as House Republicans sought to use his testimony to bolster their view that the Obama administration tried to shield embarrassing facts about the ordeal, The Washington Post […]

A day after three missing women were found alive in a Cleveland house, police and federal investigators on Tuesday were trying to determine how their suspected abductors had kept them hidden from view, even as authorities regularly pursued new leads in the roughly 10 years since they disappeared, according  The Wall Street Journal. The women — […]

As the weakly protected U.S. diplomatic compound in eastern Libya came under attack the night of Sept. 11, 2012, the deputy head of the embassy in Tripoli sought in vain to get the Pentagon to scramble fighter jets over Benghazi in a show of force that might have averted a second attack on a nearby […]

Israeli jets bombed Syria on Sunday, rocking Damascus for hours and sending pillars of flame into the night sky in what a Western source called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Reuters reports. Local people reported massive explosions and internet video showed the capital’s skyline lit by flashes. The Syrian government […]