BARACK OBAMA

A petition that one can only assume is a joke is calling on the White House to invade Portugal in revenge for the Europeans' late goal against Team USA.

Obama called on Congress to pass legislation to protect pregnant women in the workplace. Check out your state's laws protecting pregnant women.

Without Congress, Obama can do little to extend the meager family-leave benefits the United States offers it workers.

Years of legal feuding came to an end Monday when the Obama administration grudgingly turned over the Barron memo, which contains the legal justification for a drone strike that killed Anwar Al-Awlaki.

Indonesian retailers are cashing in on the Iraq crisis by selling ISIS merchandise, including "We Are All ISIS" T-shirts, online.

But the high court also said the EPA had wrongly stretched the Clean Air Act program for new and expanded stationary sources.

Capturing the frontier is a dramatic step toward the goal of building a caliphate across swathes of Syria and Iraq.

ISIS now reportedly controls most of Iraq's western border and is in a position to easily move weapons to arm Syrian rebels.

Netanyahu says a better idea would be to pit Iran against the Sunni extremists.

Rand Paul told David Gregory on "Meet The Press" the Iraq crisis was partly fueled by failed American policies over the last 13 years.

U.S. intelligence agencies have repeatedly warned top government officials that Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki and his policies were gravely antagonizing his country's Sunni population, two U.S. security officials said on Friday.

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The House bill gives the Pentagon more money for equipment, less for military health, and severely curbs Obama and the NSA.

Scarred by a decade of war, many Iraqis fear another U.S. intervention. Obama is pushing Baghdad to find a political solution.

Nearly 100,000 Central Americans, including 52,000 unaccompanied minors, have crossed into the U.S. since October.

For many gay couples, getting those federal protections means a long trip to a distant state to get married.

"What is still unclear is if Iran is really ready and willing to take all the necessary steps to assure the world that its nuclear programme is and will remain exclusively peaceful," said U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman.

Same-sex couples will receive both workplace protections and most federal benefits even if their state doesn't allow gay marriage.

The green revolution may be further off than we thought.

A source close to Maliki told Reuters that the government planned to hit back now that it had halted ISIL's advance.

Washington clearly would like to be rid of the Iraqi prime minister. But will it improve the security situation in the country?