WASHINGTON A federal judge on Tuesday accused the Bush administration of hiding evidence in the case of a Yemen man who has been held as a terror suspect at Guantanamo Bay for six years. ...[Full Story]

WASHINGTON The Social Security Administration, envisaging the near-future prospect of 10,000 baby boomers applying for benefits every day, has put together a new online service that will allow people ...[Full Story]

WASHINGTON CNN says President-elect Barack Obama has approached its medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general. The cable news network s ...[Full Story]

ST. PAUL, Minn. Republican Norm Coleman is suing to challenge Democrat Al Franken's apparent recount victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race. At a news conference Tuesday, Coleman says he w ...[Full Story]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will go to the United Nations on Tuesday to help with international efforts to arrange a ceasefire in Gaza, the State Department said. ...[Full Story]

Jeb Bush has decided not to run for the Senate in Florida,according to formerstate House Speaker Marco Rubio. He said it just wasnt the right timing, Rubio said, recounting a ph ...[Full Story]

WASHINGTON Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday that President-elect Barack Obama apologized to her for not notifying her ahead of time that Leon Panetta was his pick for CIA director. ...[Full Story]

WASHINGTON Roland Burris tried to take President-elect Barack Obama's Illinois Senate seat Tuesday but failed in a scripted piece of political theater staged just before the opening of the 111th ...[Full Story]

NAIROBI, Kenya Three masked gunmen fatally shot a Somali aid worker Tuesday, as the U.N. envoy to Somalia said the United Nations should create a Baghdad-style Green Zone in the African country so he ...[Full Story]

WASHINGTON President-elect Barack Obama apparently plans a more aggressive approach than the Bush administration to helping friendly nations get better at fighting terrorism within their own borders, ...[Full Story]