The U.S. government will begin requiring big companies to monitor and report greenhouse gas emissions, officials said on Tuesday, a move that could make it easier for federal regulators to cut emissions if Congress does not pass a climate change bill.

Former CNN host Lou Dobbs is seriously considering running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 2012.

Watch the history of the United States unfold, from its birth, to its music, to its elections, and to its cultural breakthroughs.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has used powers granted to him by a controversial new law to block the court-ordered release of numerous photos of detainee abuse, government lawyers revealed in a court filing [PDF]

The trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others are a key step toward Obama's goal of closing the Guantanamo Bay prison.

President Obama sent his top aides back to the drawing board Wednesday by "pushing for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government," a senior administration official said.

U.S. President Barack Obama's push for sweeping healthcare reform was poised to clear a key Senate hurdle on Tuesday, opening a new phase in the raging debate over his top domestic priority.

Kudos to John Kerry and Lindsey Graham. Their op-ed in Sunday's Times points the way to a breakthrough in the climate change debate that's desperately needed.

The Obama Administration cannot easily erase the previous Bush Administration's isolationism of Venezuela, as the oil for arms contract deals in Moscow could re-ignite another low-level South American nuclear arms race. Obama intends Colombian operations!

The Third Jihad focuses on an FBI discovered secret document now being viewed by the public -- the manifesto for the American Muslim Brotherhood of Radical Islam, operating inside the United States to destroy Western civilization from within.