More than 150 doctors and other medical professionals are asking President Barack Obama to allow them to treat hunger strikers in the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "It is clear that they do not trust their military doctors," the physicians wrote in an open letter published in The Lancet medical journal on Tuesday. "Without [...]

If you have reached three-score and ten, as I have just done, youre permitted, perhaps expected, to mourn the passing of a better time, when tomatoes were tastier, the air sweeter. As Burt Lancaster in Atlantic City says to a young man struck by his first sight of the ocean, You should have seen it in the old days.

President Barack Obama warmly welcomed the announcement on Tuesday of fresh reconciliation talks between Afghanistan's government and the Taliban, as well as plans to launch a new round of direct negotiations between the insurgent force and the United States. U.S. officials said one of the likely items on the U.S.-Taliban agenda would be the return [...]

In the midst of negotiations in Congress over an immigration overhaul, House Republicans are planning a series of meetings with Hispanic-Americans in the nation's capital as part of a partywide effort to woo minority voters. The House Republican Conference, chaired by Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, is planning four meetup sessions between Hispanic-Americans and Republican [...]

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a top contender for New Jersey's vacant Senate seat, joined a panel of urban policy experts on Monday night to discuss national politics and local problem-solving. George Stephanopoulos, the ABC news analyst and former adviser to President Bill Clinton, moderated the discussion at New York's 92nd Street Y. It was one [...]

ABC News Brooke Kettler reports: At what age do young boys begin sexual self-exploration? As early as 15 weeks in utero, according to Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas. Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful, said Burgess, a former...

The Taliban said today that they are prepared to sit down for direct peace talks with Afghan and U.S. officials over the future of Afghanistan. The news comes as Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced today that Afghan security forces have taken over the countrys...

The civil war in Syria is expected to dominate much of the discussion as President Obama sits down tomorrow with the Group of Eight leaders in Northern Ireland, just days after the White House confirmed the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assads...

WASHINGTON Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin criticized the Obama administrations decision to supply weapons to the rebels in the civil war in Syria today, arguing that the U.S. should Let Allah sort it out until there is a stronger leader in the White House....

WASHINGTON Texas Gov. Rick Perry had a bit of an oops moment today when he mistakenly referred to the administrations response to the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi as occurring in Lebanon instead of Libya. I fear where weve come to in...