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The CIA Tuesday released the executive summary of a report that assesses the agency's anti-terror measures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks. The Inspector General's report is critical of the CIA's top officials, including former director George Tenet.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flies to Japan today to begin a week-long trip across Asia. It is her first trip as the Obama administration's top diplomat — and she says she's looking for ways that the U.S. and asian countries can chart a "common future."

President Barack Obama spoke to a joint session of Congress for the first time last night before a national audience. He outlined an ambitious plan to repair the national economy, and reemphasized his commitment to health care, and education as top priorities. But some Republicans are skeptical of Obama's agenda.

America's top math students went head-to-head with competitors from more than 100 countries — and they won. "If you can even solve one question," their head coach says, "you're a bit of a genius."

The share of total income of the top 1% of earners in the U.S. more than doubled over four decades. But in Europe, the gains were less dramatic. What accounts for the difference across the Atlantic?

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has outlined the options and risks of U.S. military involvement in Syria. Read his letter to the chairman of the Senate's Armed Services Committee.

Ambassador Kim Darroch paints Trump as incompetent and his administration as "diplomatically clumsy," in memos to the Foreign Office and leaked to the Daily Mail. Trump says the diplomat isn't liked.

For the first time, a woman has been named CEO of a major U.S. automotive company. Mary Barra, 51, breaks a glass ceiling in one of the most male-dominated industries in the nation. But women buy more than half the cars in America, so the question is why it took so long.

On the second anniversary of George Floyd's death, Black people continue to be targets of hate. America's race issues are once again at the forefront after the mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y.

A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney suggests in court papers that President Bush approved a leak of classified pre-war intelligence on Iraq. Lewis Libby's claims put the president and the vice president in the awkward position of having authorized leaks.