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President Barack Obama arrived in Germany Tuesday for a 24-hour visit, the culmination of which will be a speech on Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate.

Military leaders are ready to begin tearing down the remaining walls that have prevented women from holding thousands of combat and special operations jobs near the front lines.

President Obama spoke to a massive crowd in Berlin, Germany during his 2008 campaign for the presidency.

Despite the failure of gun legislation in the Senate in April, Vice Presiden Joe Biden says the fight for expanded background checks and other gun reforms is not over.

NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander told members of Congress these programs are a “tool to...stop future attacks.”

At a hearing Tuesday, security leaders said leaks about classified programs affect their work and America’s relationship with allies.

Mel Wymore is campaigning in New York as a community board appointee, ex-PTA chair and founder of local organizations. But this city council candidate's resume has an unusual feature: He built much of it while he was a woman.

Tuesday FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce said the NSA’s surveillance program helped stop an attack on the New York Stock Exchange.

NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander told members of the House these programs helped prevent a terrorist attack similar to 9/11.

In a historic move for the military, the Pentagon is expected to announce its plan to start integrating women into combat forces.

An estimated 100,000 demonstrators flooded the streets of eight different Brazilian cities, to oppose poor services despite heavy taxes.

Afghan forces have taken over the security lead in Afghanistan, following an official handover from the U.S.-led NATO coalition.

President Obama defended secret National Security Agency spying programs as transparent, though they are authorized in secret.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Barack Obama on Monday that their positions on Syria do not coincide but both leaders agree on the need to push for negotiations in Syria's two-year-old civil war.

Photographers with NOH8, a campaign to promote marriage equality, visited Capitol Hill to collect portraits of members of Congress who support gay marriage.
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Photographers with NOH8, a campaign to promote marriage equality, visited Capitol Hill to collect portraits of members of Congress who support gay marriage.
Most every Major League Baseball game is preceded by a carefully-orchestrated set of exercises that, when combined, create a rhythmic choreography that is commonly known as batting practice.
District residents captured images of the ominous clouds and fat rain drops that inundated Washington Thursday.
In her first public speech since stepping down as secretary of State, Clinton outlined priorities for her work through the Clinton Global Initiative.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) spoke about the suicide of his father while he and the families of Newtown victims urged Congress on Thursday to pass legislation to require background checks for the transfer and sale of firearms.
Families of the Newtown shooting victims met with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) in D.C. Wednesday about their continued fight for stricter gun laws, despite the bill’s failure to advance in the Senate.
Apple officially entered the streaming music market with its announcement of iTunes Radio at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. The Post’s Hayley Tsukayama reports on why the new service could shake up the industry.
In a press conference Friday, President Obama addressed concerns about the National Security Agency and the FBI’s aquisitions of phone and internet records. Obama said that Congress approved the classified programs and added, “Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.”
In July, Metro plans to hire a contractor to begin the process of updating the turnstiles and fare machines in the Washington Metro system.
Thursday’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing brought out the wacky side of some representatives.