A book by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Taylor Branch, based on secret recordings made by former US President Bill Clinton, details Russian leader Boris Yeltsin's heavy drinking and refers to George W. Bush as "unqualified to be president."
Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy was laid to rest Saturday at Arlington National Cemetery. The senator's grave lies beside his slain brothers on a Virginia hillside overlooking the US capital.
President Barack Obama said Edward M. Kennedy had been a "champion for those who have none; the soul of the Democratic Party" during a eulogy offered at the late Massachusetts senator's funeral Mass.
Former US presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and many other Washington notables, joined President Barack Obama and the Kennedy family at the funeral Mass of the late Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy.
Six US citizens and one legal resident were arrested in North Carolina on Monday on charges they conspired to "engage in violent jihad," according to the Justice Department.
A Virginia appeals court has resentenced a US national to life in jail for joining an al Qaeda plot to kill then-president George W. Bush. Ahmad Omar Abu Ali had been sentenced to 30 years in jail, but that decision was judged too "lenient".
Former Guantanamo inmate Lakdhar Boumediene told FRANCE 24 in an exclusive interview about his seven-year ordeal in the US prison camp, where his protestations of innocence were met with escalating brutality from interrogators.
US President Barack Obama granted immunity to CIA officers involved in tough terror interrogations after the White House released Bush-era interrogation memos, which critics suspect contain legal justification for torturing terror suspects.
President Barack Obama's administration released four Bush-era interrogation memos, which critics suspect contain legal justification for torturing terror suspects. Obama has assured interrogators they will not be subject to prosecution.
