A look at how the dynamic between Obama and Netanyahu has played out over the years.
WASHINGTON — This was never happily-ever-after waiting to happen. When President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office early in 2009, there were plenty of reasons to expect their relationship would be difficult. The cerebral president and the brash prime minister have stark differences in personality, politics
The Islamic State, one expert said, is trying to make God “a co-conspirator in a genocidal project.”
The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq during his first public appearance. CAIRO — Three British schoolgirls believed to have gone to Syria to become "jihadi" brides. Three young men charged in New York with plotting to join the Islamic State group and carry out attacks on
Czech public radio said the perpetrator called a local television station before the attack, complaining that police weren’t solving his problems and threatening that he would “take things into his hands.”
A police officer guards the entrance to a building where a gunman opened fire in a restaurant and killed eight people before fatally shooting himself in Uhersky Brod, eastern Czech Republic, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. The gunman was a local man around age 60, said Patrik Kuncar, mayor of the southeastern town of Uhersky Brod. It was the worst shooting
The District becomes the first place east of the Mississippi River where recreational pot is legal. Alaska also legalized pot this week, joining Colorado and Washington state.
WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia defied threats from Congress and moved forward Thursday with legalizing possession of marijuana after a voter-approved initiative. Despite last-minute maneuvers by Republican leaders in Congress and threats that city leaders could face prison time, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the city was implementing
The fate of those kidnapped, almost all of them Assyrian Christians, remained unclear Wednesday, two days after they were seized.
An Egyptian man holds a poster with Arabic that reads, "Muslims and Copts are in the same tragedy," during a protest against Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. BEIRUT — Islamic State group militants have moved a large
Some surveys have the potential to punish people for being poor or uneducated by attaching a lower risk to those who have steady work and high levels of education.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — States are trying to reduce prison populations with secretive, new psychological assessments to predict which inmates will commit future crimes and who might be safe to release, despite serious problems and high-profile failures, an Associated Press investigation found. These programs are part of a national, data-driven
Democrats, at 71 percent, were the most likely to support raising taxes on capital gains. Among Republicans and independents, 46 percent supported it.
WASHINGTON — The rich aren’t taxed enough and the middle class is taxed too much. As for your taxes, you probably think they’re too high as well. Those are the results of an Associated Press-GfK poll that found that most people in the United States support President Barack Obama’s proposal to raise investment taxes on high-income
