U.S. News

• Barack Obama defends use of drones

  US President Barack Obama has defended the use of drones in a "just war" of self-defense against deadly militants and a campaign that had made America safer. In a…

• Abdul-Baki Todashev: Ibragim Todashev's father regrets sending him to US

  Abdul-Baki Todashev, father of a Chechen immigrant Ibragim Todashev, who was shot dead by an FBI agent while being questioned about his ties to Boston Marathon bombings…

• Jodi Arias trial: Jurors sent home as they still couldn't agree on whether to sentence her to death

  Members of jury for the Jodi Arias court case were sent home at 4.30 p.m. local time after spending the entire day deliberating whether or not they should sentence the…

• Jodi Arias pleads for life in prison and she asks jurors to consider impact on her family when weighing death penalty

  Jodi Arias tearfully pleaded with jurors to spare her from a death sentence in Travis Alexander murder case on Tuesday during a bizarre 25-minute testimony in which she…

• Michelle Obama once dated Treasury Department Inspector General J. Russell George at Harvard Law School

  Michelle Robinson, the future first lady of the United States, may have dated Treasury Department Inspector General J. Russell George at Harvard Law School, a new report…

• Johnny Berry: Amanda Berry’s father says she is living in a waking nightmare

  Johnny Berry, Amanda Berry’s father,  has revealed how his daughter is struggling to recover after ten years in captivity in Cleveland and is petrified that her accused…