The walk in Ramadi was never supposed to happen. A sandstorm grounded Gen. Peter Pace and his entourage, who were planning on leaving the city after a quick visit during his final tour of Iraq.
So let's cut to the chase on the new National Intelligence Estimate: Does it show America is safer today than it was on September 10, 2001 -- or not?
After watching all of the talk about Iraq in President Bush's news conference Thursday, I couldn't get a certain song by the popular band Green Day out of my head -- "Wake Me Up When September Ends."
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down public school choice plans in Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky. The court ruled the two cases relied on an unconstitutional use of racial criteria, reflecting the deep legal and social rift over the issues of race, affirmative action and education.
Saudi security forces have arrested 172 al Qaeda suspects who were planning attacks inside and outside the kingdom, officials said Friday.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surprised many international observers Wednesday when he said his government would pardon and free 15 British sailors and marines captured last month.
It was a time when you felt you were covering a profound historic shift.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that "mistakes were made" in the dismissals of several federal prosecutors, but rejected Democrats' calls for his resignation on the same day that his chief of staff stepped down.
A federal jury Tuesday found I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby guilty of obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury in the investigation into how Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative was exposed.
Six people, including four college athletes, were killed Friday when their tour bus crashed through a wall and plummeted 30 feet from a bridge onto a busy interstate.
The walk in Ramadi was never supposed to happen. A sandstorm grounded Gen. Peter Pace and his entourage, who were planning on leaving the city after a quick visit during his final tour of Iraq.
So let's cut to the chase on the new National Intelligence Estimate: Does it show America is safer today than it was on September 10, 2001 -- or not?
After watching all of the talk about Iraq in President Bush's news conference Thursday, I couldn't get a certain song by the popular band Green Day out of my head -- "Wake Me Up When September Ends."
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down public school choice plans in Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky. The court ruled the two cases relied on an unconstitutional use of racial criteria, reflecting the deep legal and social rift over the issues of race, affirmative action and education.
Saudi security forces have arrested 172 al Qaeda suspects who were planning attacks inside and outside the kingdom, officials said Friday.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surprised many international observers Wednesday when he said his government would pardon and free 15 British sailors and marines captured last month.
It was a time when you felt you were covering a profound historic shift.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that "mistakes were made" in the dismissals of several federal prosecutors, but rejected Democrats' calls for his resignation on the same day that his chief of staff stepped down.
A federal jury Tuesday found I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby guilty of obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury in the investigation into how Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative was exposed.
Six people, including four college athletes, were killed Friday when their tour bus crashed through a wall and plummeted 30 feet from a bridge onto a busy interstate.
My friend has lived in Baghdad for the better part of his life. He's in his late 30s with a wife and three children, two of them girls.
Reality show star and former Playboy playmate and stripper Anna Nicole Smith's death leaves complicated legal questions unanswered.
CNN's Larry King interviewed Anna Nicole Smith several times on his talk show and said the model and actress lived a short life but one worthy of being told in a feature film.
And so we were off ... boxes packed, edible goodies in ample supply, camera batteries charged, ourselves recharged with energy drinks -- the crew left Mecca and headed for the Arafat plain, where today the pilgrims would perform the most important rite, standing from sunrise to sunset in supplication.
One could almost feel the need to do a double-take at seeing the steadily emptying Grand Mosque in Mecca from outside our hotel room window.
Christmas came today: but not for everyone on the team. The unlucky, grounded crew members were left in a pique as Adil, grinning like a Cheshire cat, left the hotel with our driver in the early hours this morning.
Arriving in the evening of December 20 in this hot, desert kingdom, laden with a train of boxes bearing some 280 kg of camera equipment, and some vague notions of a "schedule" to be adhered to, your ideals are dispelled as soon as you set foot in the arrivals lounge at King Abdul-Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
In the TV news business, if a story breaks, you better be ready to turn on a dime, pack your bags and head to the nearest airport.
Lebanon's Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel was shot and killed by apparent assassins Tuesday in Beirut, senior Lebanese government officials said.
Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down as defense secretary, President Bush announced Wednesday, a day after voters in the midterm elections expressed dissatisfaction over the handling of the war in Iraq.
A national religious leader with White House ties, the Rev. Ted Haggard, resigned Thursday after accusations by a male prostitute that the pastor paid him for sex during a three-year period.
On the cusp of an election that could overturn the Republican majority on Capitol Hill, I jokingly asked a senior Democratic aide whether he had ordered new business cards to reflect majority status.
With the war on terror a top campaign issue in midterm elections, President Bush has declassified key findings of an intelligence report after parts of it were leaked findng the Iraq war is fueling terrorism.
President Bush warned on Friday that a CIA interrogation program for terror suspects is in jeopardy unless Congress approves his proposals seeking to reinterpret America's application of the Geneva Conventions.
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey handpicked on Sunday 73 South African disadvantaged girls, the first of hundreds of girls who will attend her new school just outside of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The news of four soldiers accused of murders and rape in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, brings up issues that are often linked, but should not be -- "stress" and "crime."
British authorities have arrested at least 21 people suspected of plotting to blow up passenger jets heading from Britain to the United States. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the plans were "suggestive of an al Qaeda plot."
The Lebanese have endured more than a week of Israeli airstrikes. Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Wednesday that the conflict so far has caused "immeasurable loss": more than 300 people have been killed in Lebanon, 1,000 have been wounded and 500,000 displaced. Beirut has been hit particularly hard.
At least 11 people were wounded Monday when a Hezbollah rocket hit a residential building in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.
Dan Rather has reached a deal to host a weekly news program starting this fall on premium high-definition channel HDNet. The show is expected to debut in October.
Seven explosions hit packed commuter trains during rush hour Tuesday evening in Mumbai, India, killing scores of people.
An explosion and fire leveled a residential building Monday morning on New York's Upper East Side, fire officials and eyewitnesses said.
North Korea caused an outcry when it test-fired seven missiles, one of which was identified as a Taepodong-2 that has the potential to carry a warhead to the United States.
The latest recording by Osama bin Laden, which eulogizes terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, displays al Qaeda's public relations acumen, confidence and traditional Muslim identity.
Gen. George Casey, the U.S. commander in charge of coalition forces in Iraq, projects large reductions in the 127,000-member American force in Iraq, starting in September and continuing through 2007, according to a New York Times report.
CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour told CNN news anchors Michael Holmes and Adrian Finighan that the death of Abu Masab al-Zarqawi is an important step -- but will not stop the Iraq insurgency.
To get away from the public scrutiny that befits one of the world's most famous showbiz couples, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie decamped to Swakpomund -- a sleepy little town on the southwest coast of Africa.
A powerful earthquake in Indonesia has killed more than 5,000 people and left thousands more injured, many critically. CNN correspondent Dan Rivers visited one hospital to see how overwhelmed medics are coping with casualties from the disaster.
Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling were convicted of conspiracy and fraud Thursday in connection with the energy giant's collapse in 2001.
A massive fire broke out at Turkey's Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul on Wednesday, forcing hundreds to flee as huge plumes of black smoke darkened the sky. CNN's Miles O'Brien spoke to CNN producer Kaya Heyse at the scene of the blaze for "American Morning" shortly after 9 a.m. ET.
Up to 200 people were reported killed in an oil pipeline explosion on the outskirts of Nigeria's main city of Lagos on Friday.
Baghdad bureau director Cal Perry and correspondent Ryan Chilcote recently followed the surgeons of the Army's 10th Combat Support Hospital as they fought to save lives in the chaotic aftermath of combat.
Vice President Dick Cheney is in Eastern Europe, where he angered Russian officials with a speech that accused President Vladimir Putin of backsliding on democracy and trying to intimidate its neighbors.
With Zacarais Moussaoui headed for lifetime confinement at a federal prison for a minor role in the 9/11 attacks, the question arises of what will happen to the alleged planners who are in U.S. custody.
The jury in the case of al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui recommended Wednesday that he should receive life in prison rather than the death penalty for his role in the attacks of September 11, 2001, on the United States.
As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made their surprise visits to Baghdad on Wednesday, many of the troops stationed north of Baghdad, in Balad and Dujail, say either they didn't know about it or didn't care.
The man who has been the White House's most visible face in often contentious press briefings for the past two years announced his resignation Wednesday.
Two members of Duke University's lacrosse team were arrested and charged Tuesday with raping a woman hired as a dancer at a team party, jail officials said.
Responding to six retired generals' recent calls for his defense secretary to resign, President Bush said Friday that Donald Rumsfeld has his "full support and deepest appreciation."
A day after large pro-immigration rallies were held in more than 70 cities across the nation, Miles O'Brien talks Tuesday with CNN's senior political analyst Bill Schneider about the rallies' potential effects on the contentious congressional debate over immigration reform and the upcoming mid-term elections.
Vice President Dick Cheney told his top adviser in 2003 that President Bush had authorized the leaking of pre-war intelligence on Iraq, according to court papers released this week.
A federal jury decided on Monday that admitted al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty, tying him directly to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
U.S. and Iraqi troops scoured areas around Samarra north of the Iraqi capital Friday searching for insurgents as part of Operation Swarmer.
Slobodan Milosevic ruled by violent means during the disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, while trying to convince other world leaders that he was trying to bring peace to the Balkans.
I arrived at Hall One at the massive CeBIT trade fair on Wednesday night in in search of the mysterious new wireless device known only as Origami.
President Bush and his usual allies, congressional Republicans, are locked in a passionate fight over whether a United Arab Emirates company should assume some operations at U.S. shipping ports.
If ever there was a time Iraq needed leadership it is now. The sectarian violence here continues, and the threat remains that the insurgency is effectively pulling the country apart.
Some members of Congress have called a deal allowing a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates to take over management of six big American ports a dangerous move.
New faces are being put on old problems -- creating new tension but perhaps also options -- for Israel and the Palestinians, says Guy Raz, CNN's Jerusalem correspondent.
California death row inmate Michael Angelo Morales received a temporary reprieve before his scheduled execution Tuesday when two anesthesiologists refused to participate, citing ethical concerns.
Four U.S. presidents -- including President George W. Bush -- were among the luminaries at Coretta Scott King's funeral Tuesday. Among some speakers' accolades and tributes to the civil rights icon were criticisms of the current administration's actions -- the war in Iraq and domestic eavesdropping.
The White House has begun a new push to justify a controversial domestic spying program that allows the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on conversations to or from the United States without obtaining a court warrant.
The trip was pitched to us by the U.S. military as an opportunity to see first-hand, what it calls, the future leaders of the Iraqi army.
On Friday, an Arabic-language satellite TV network broadcast an audiotape it said was from Osama bin Laden.
On Thursday, an Arabic-language satellite TV network broadcast an audiotape it said was from Osama bin Laden.
Less than 100 meters from the holiest site in Islam, opposite the Grand Mosque in Mecca, is a surprising culinary offering: a Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food restaurant.
CNN Jerusalem correspondent Guy Raz is among the world's media, waiting for news of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's condition following a major stroke and considering the global impact of Israel's political upheaval.
Rescuers searched Tuesday for 13 men trapped in a darkened coal mine, trying to find a sign of the miners more than a day after an explosion left them trapped.
It was a year of high-profile trials, ranging from the spectacle of pop star Michael Jackson arriving at court in pajamas to the outbursts of ex-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
A public school cannot mandate "intelligent design," a concept critics liken to creationism, for its science classes, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday.
President Bush said Monday that a program designed to eavesdrop on the international calls involving U.S. citizens suspected of being involved with al Qaeda is legal under an measure enacted by Congress shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Iraqis went to the polls Thursday to vote on a permanent government, one they are counting on to help lead to a more secure nation and better life in the war-torn country.
President Bush on Monday compared the struggle to build a democracy in Iraq to the troubled birth of the United States.
An angry group of Iraqis chased former interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and his bodyguards from a Shiite shrine Sunday in the city of Najaf. Police fired shots into the air to disperse the crowd.
Veteran Israeli politician and former prime minister Shimon Peres has left his Labor Party and offered support to former rival Ariel Sharon. CNN's Jerusalem correspondent Guy Raz assesses what led to the move and what effect it may have on Israeli politics and the peace process.
The CIA leak probe is again making headlines, with the prosecutor planning to seek a new grand jury and journalist Bob Woodward's admission that a senior Bush administration official talked about CIA agent Valerie Plame weeks before her identity became public.
President Bush has gone on the offensive, stepping up his political rhetoric in the face of the Iraq war's growing unpopularity.
Jordanian authorities have detained an Iraqi woman accused of planning to be the fourth suicide bomber in last week's attacks in Amman that killed 57 people.
Protests and memorials dotted the Jordanian landscape Thursday, the day after three suicide bombers blew themselves up at separate hotels here. Fifty-nine people, including the three attackers, were killed in the blasts and more than 100 were wounded.
Three suspected suicide bombings hit hotels frequented by westerners in downtown Amman, Jordan, Wednesday night, killing dozens of people and wounding many more.
President Bush on Monday nominated Circuit Court Judge Samuel Alito to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Alito, a former U.S. attorney who has been a judge for 15 years, is considered a favorite of conservatives.
The special prosecutor in the CIA leak investigation was expected to ask the grand jury to indict Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, according to a lawyer involved in the case.
It's dubbed the "meat grinder." And the toll taken on U.S. forces on these roads patrolled by the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in the northern Babil province explains why.
I'll admit it. I wasn't prepared for what I saw. And I can only begin to understand what it was like for the people who lived there.
The withdrawal of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers followed weeks of criticism from some of Bush's supporters, who wanted a nominee with a clear conservative record.
President Bush's choice for Supreme Court justice nominee, Harriet Miers, withdrew from consideration Thursday -- a nominee who had come under fire from both conservatives and liberals.
President Bush Thursday outlined his vision of the war on terror in what the White House billed as a "major" policy address. CNN correspondent Suzanne Malveaux reported live outside the White House after Bush's address, speaking with anchor Daryn Kagan.
President Bush delivered what the White House termed a "major speech" Thursday on the progress of the war in Iraq and the broader conflict against terrorism.
In his first solo press conference since May, President Bush on Tuesday went to bat for Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and addressed a range of other issues facing the nation.
President Bush moved quickly Monday to fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist Saturday. Bush nominated federal Judge John Roberts to the nation's top judicial post.
Unarmed Israeli soldiers entered two synagogues in Jewish settlements on Thursday after hundreds of protestors refused to evacuate the building. The emotional evictions come as Israel ends its 38-year presence in Gaza.
President Bush on Tuesday selected U.S. Circuit Judge John Roberts Jr. as his nominee to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court.
President Bush announced on Tuesday that he's selected U.S. Circuit Court Judge John Roberts Jr. as his nominee to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court.
A previously unknown group calling itself the Secret Organization group al Qaeda Organization in Europe released a statement Thursday claiming responsibility for the London subway and bus bombings.
CNN Correspondent Elaine Quijano is in Scotland where the G-8 is meeting. She talked with CNN's Soledad O'Brien about President Bush's reaction to four explosions in London's transport system Thursday.
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced Friday that she planned to retire once the Senate confirms her successor.
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