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Turkey protests test Obama's ties with Erdogan

By JULIE PACEAP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) - Government crackdowns against protesters in Turkey could test the close ties between President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a strategically important U.S. ally in a tumultuous region. The demonstrations in

US: No plans to end broad surveillance program

By LARA JAKESAP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is weighing whether to charge a government contractor with leaking classified government secrets while it defends a much-criticized National Security Agency surveillance program as an indispensable tool for

US spy programs raise ire both home and abroad

By LARA JAKESAP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration faced fresh anger Monday at home and abroad over U.S. spy programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world in the hope of thwarting terrorist threats. But a senior intelligence official said there

House Dem pushes for repeal of military force law

By DONNA CASSATAAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama and Congress need to rethink the broad authority for the use of military force in the war on terror, a law written when many U.S. troops now on the battlefield were on playgrounds, a House Democrat who wants the law repealed