President Barack Obama and leaders of other major industrial powers grappled Friday with options to solidify world resolve against development of an Iranian nuclear bomb and encourage a more forceful response to worsening violence in Syria.

The federal government is asking an appeals panel in Richmond to reverse a ruling that shields a reporter from testifying in the case of an ex-CIA officer charged with leaking classified information about a botched covert operation in Iran.

Jurors in the former senator's corruption trial asked to review several pieces of prosecution evidence, including several checks from an Edwards supporter to an interior decorator that were co-signed and deposited by the wife of former Edwards campaign aide Andrew Young.

Thousands of protesters have arrived in Chicago knowing they are there in part to make a little noise during the weekend NATO summit, but myriad groups, special interests and causes have also resulted in internal turmoil.

Sen. Lamar Alexander wants to make clear that his amendment to the Lacey Act wasn't intended to justify seizure of instruments made before 2008, and he and the amendment's co-sponsor are writing a letter to authorities to clarify that point.

Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, refuge and relief.

Former President George W. Bush is returning to the White House on May 31 for the unveiling of his official portrait.

Georgetown, in response to calls to withdraw Sebelius’ invitation, had said that the school invites a wide variety of “high-profile” speakers and that Sebelius was chosen by students in the school’s Public Policy Institute to talk at their diploma ceremony.

The federal government is asking an appeals panel in Richmond to reverse a ruling that shields a reporter from testifying in the case of an ex-CIA officer charged with leaking classified information about a botched covert operation in Iran.