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  • Obama to tour Jersey Shore with Gov. Christie

    23 May 2013, 9:07 pm

    The president's visit is to showcase the recovery efforts in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy
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  • Video: 5/23: Obama: The war on terror, "like all wars, must end"; baby born as tornado struck

    23 May 2013, 8:46 pm

    Warning of the danger of keeping America on a "perpetual wartime footing," President Obama called for an end to the war on terror; and, With a tornado and a baby on the way, doctors and nurses at the Moore Medical Center really had to deliver.
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  • Obama announces steps toward Guantanamo closure

    23 May 2013, 8:08 pm

    The president's plans come as 60 percent of the 166 detainees who remain at Guantanamo are participating in a 14-week hunger strike
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  • Video: GOP Sens. slam Obama's suggestion that war on terror "must end"

    23 May 2013, 8:04 pm

    Flanked by several GOP colleagues who echoed his remarks, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blasted the president's declaration that the war on terror "must end" as premature and foolhardy, saying that a desire to bring the war "to a compete closure contradicts the…
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  • Video: Obama: The war on terror, "like all wars, must end"

    23 May 2013, 7:46 pm

    Warning of the danger of keeping America on a "perpetual wartime footing," President Obama called for an end to the war on terror, explaining, "Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue, but this war, like all wars, must end -…
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  • Rep. Jo Bonner to resign from House for university job

    23 May 2013, 5:51 pm

    Bonner, an Alabama Republican, will leave his seat Aug. 15 to work at the University of Alabama
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  • IRS official Lois Lerner placed on leave

    23 May 2013, 5:47 pm

    Head of tax-exempt organizations division placed on leave after scandal; House Oversight Committee chairman says she may be called back to testify
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  • Video: Drones have not "made us any safer," argues Amnesty leader

    23 May 2013, 4:33 pm

    Face to Face: Following President Obama's speech on drone policy, Amnesty International's Michelle Ringuette said "we don't need to make a new rulebook" on drones, because international human rights and humanitarian laws should already govern engagement in…
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  • Video: Gitmo closing: Time for rhetoric has passed, says Amnesty leader

    23 May 2013, 4:24 pm

    Face to Face: Amnesty International's Michelle Ringuette says she wants to believe that President Obama plans to close Guantanamo Bay prison, but warns it's "so beyond the point where rhetoric is adequate," and it's time to see real steps taking place.
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  • Video: Alex Gibney on Obama admin. and whistleblowers

    23 May 2013, 4:23 pm

    The director of the documentary "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks" talks to CBSNews.com about the U.S. government's increasingly "aggressive prosecution" of leakers of classified secrets.
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  • Video: Protester heckles Obama during counterterrorism speech

    23 May 2013, 3:36 pm

    As President Obama outlined a renewed push to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, he was repeatedly interrupted by a protester, Medea Benjamin of advocacy group Code Pink, who accused the president of spurning the rule of law and demanded he…
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  • Obama: America at a "crossroads" in fighting terrorism

    23 May 2013, 3:29 pm

    In broad speech on national security, Obama outlines new policy on drones, Guantanamo
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  • Video: Obama: Citizenship not always a "shield" against drone strikes

    23 May 2013, 3:14 pm

    President Obama defended his administration's recently declassified decision to kill Anwar Awlaki, a U.S. citizen in Yemen who was deemed to be a terrorist, explaining, "When a U.S. citizen goes abroad to wage war against America and is actively plotting to…
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  • Could the GOP pull an upset in Mass. senate race?

    23 May 2013, 12:59 pm

    Three and half years ago, Republicans won a Senate special election in the heavily-Democratic Bay State; could it happen again?
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  • Weiner kicks off his campaign - and his apology tour

    23 May 2013, 12:29 pm

    The disgraced former congressman makes first campaign stop in NYC mayor's race; N.Y. Gov. Cuomo expresses his displeasure
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