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Meet Trump's think tank

9 years 10 months ago
Clues about the ideas that could emerge from the Trump administration are in a stately building on Massachusetts Avenue, a few blocks from Capitol Hill.

Obama's last words on torture

9 years 10 months ago
President Barack Obama plans to provide a final summation of his national security record Tuesday, reaffirming his counterterrorism strategy even as his successor has threatened to reverse course on many of Obama's priorities.

Source: Security clearance requested for Flynn Jr.

9 years 10 months ago
Officials from President-elect Donald Trump's transition team attempted to distance themselves Tuesday from Michael G. Flynn -- the son and former top aide to his father, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who is Trump's pick for national security adviser and was involved in the transition effort.

Pence pressed on clearance for Flynn's son

9 years 10 months ago
CNN's Jake Tapper repeatedly presses Vice President-elect Mike Pence on a security clearance request for the son of retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for national security adviser.

US mumps cases at highest level in 10 years

9 years 10 months ago
The United States is being hit with the most mumps cases in a decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest tally as of November 5 is 2,879 cases in 45 states and the District of Columbia.

Day of infamy: Attack on Pearl Harbor

9 years 10 months ago
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese Imperial Navy launched a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 2,000 Americans were killed amid the bombings, which destroyed a significant number of US battleships and airplanes. In a speech to Congress the following day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the day of the attack "a date which will live in infamy." Shortly thereafter, Congress passed a declaration of war against Japan, casting the United States into World War II.
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