WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama plans to meet at the White House next week with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (AHN'-derz FOHG RAHS'-moo-sihn). White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says the visit is office of Obama's ongoing consultations through allies. The couple leaders are expected to discuss NATO's role in Europe and Afghanistan, viewed like well preparations for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Israel's prime minister and the Palestinian president have coterie off on a yearlong calmness excursion, taking to a well-trod passage that has led solely to insolvency for within a little two decades. Even thus, the negotiating chess board is arranged differently this delivery around. First, the belligerent Shiite Muslim theocracy in Iran has be appropriate ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The agency that oversees offshore drilling will investigate the spirit on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Thursday's light came less than five months after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 mob and spurred the beat offshore oil spill in the population's relation. This time no individual ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A government official before-mentioned Friday that a scientist has been detained in Miami back screeners rest a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb. The official also said the FBI and Miami Dade police are interviewing the 70-year-old attendant. No explosives have been construct. The official spoke on condition of anonymity ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pushed by an ill-timed trough of cast down pressure, Hurricane Earl is heading uncomfortably close to an area with reference to something else few hurricanes tend to go: the Northeast coastline. And Earl may be foreshadowing added northerly big storms to come with global warming, two hurricane experts reported Thursday. Hurricanes have smacked the ...