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U.S. and Taliban representatives will meet soon for the first time to begin what are expected to be long and complex negotiations for a peaceful settlement to the war in Afghanistan, senior Obama administration officials said Tuesday.The officials told NBC News that the meeting will take place in the next several days in the Qatari capital of Doha. The Taliban will open an office there for the pur...
In what is feared to be the worst wildfire season in a century, a central California blaze is gathering strength from dry air and wind gusts to threaten hundreds of homes.The Carstens Fire, which began Sunday afternoon, continues to burn through brush and timber in the Sierra Nevada foothills southwest of Yosemite National Park, according to Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Departmen...
National Security Agency surveillance programs helped disrupt plots to bomb the New York Stock Exchange and the New York subway system, an FBI official told Congress on Tuesday.The official, Deputy Director Sean Joyce, said that the programs also linked an American citizen in Chicago to the 2008 terror attacks on hotels in India and to a plot to bomb the offices of a Danish newspaper that publishe...
Government surveillance programs have helped stop more than 50 “potential terrorist events” since the Sept. 11 attacks, the director of the National Security Agency told Congress on Tuesday.The director, Gen. Keith Alexander, told the House Intelligence Committee that he would discuss two of those plots later Tuesday. He said that he would provide classified details of all of them to the committee...
U.S. and Taliban representatives will meet soon for the first time to begin what are expected to be long and complex negotiations for a peaceful settlement to the war in Afghanistan, senior Obama administration officials said Tuesday.The officials told NBC News that the meeting will take place in the next several days in the Qatari capital of Doha. The Taliban will open an office there for the pur...
The U.S. Senate is in the midst of debating the long-awaited comprehensive immigration bill to address the plight of millions of workers in the United States who need resolution to finding them a path to citizenship. Republicans in Congress have been warned by some in their leadership that the Republican Party must be on the right side of history on this bill and help it pass. This sentiment is a light in recent public debates where the Republican Party has preferred the darkness of saying no to progress on America’s journey, like voting rights and workers’ rights.
