Death of Osama bin Laden: Phone call pointed U.S. to compound — and to ‘the pacer’  —  It seemed an innocuous, catch-up phone call.  Last year Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the pseudonym for a Pakistani known to U.S. intelligence as the main courier for Osama bin Laden, took a call from an old friend.

Face That Screamed War's Pain Looks Back, 6 Hard Years Later  —  MOSUL, Iraq — Until the past week, Samar Hassan had never glimpsed the photograph of her that millions had seen, never knew it had become one of the most famous images of the Iraq war.  —  “My brother was sick …

Shadow of the Torturers  —  After reading John Yoo's attack on the president for not taking Osama alive and bringing him to Gitmo, I thought I might take a minute to explain something I sometimes say.  Once in a while I mention, in passing, that the Bush administration saw torturing people as a plus, not a cost.

My Reaction to Osama bin Laden's Death  —  We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.  —  It's increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law.

Barack Obama: Clean energy will deliver the ‘jobs of the future’  —  For the third weekend in a row, President Barack Obama used his weekly address to the nation on Saturday to promote his energy agenda, calling clean energy jobs the “jobs of the future.”  —  Speaking from the Allison …

Kloppenburg Laying Foundation To Delegitimize Inevitable Prosser Win  —  The recount in Wisconsin is moving along pretty much as expected given the history of recounts in Wisconsin: There hasn't been much change in the vote count.  —  As of the end of the day yesterday, with 82% of the voting units in …

Afghanistan: Fierce fighting follows Kandahar attack  —  Heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades have reportedly been used by both sides  —  Intense fighting is taking place in Afghanistan's second city of Kandahar amid co-ordinated militant attacks, including at least six suicide bombs.

Muslim group: two imams pulled from plane bound for North Carolina  —  (CNN) — An airline is investigating the removal of two imams from a flight headed to North Carolina, ostensibly because passengers felt uncomfortable with their presence of the pair — both clad in Islamic attire.

Gov. Bobby Jindal releases his birth certificate  —  Gov. Bobby Jindal arrived in the United States in utero, his mother about three months pregnant.  —  As he wrote last year in his book, “Leadership and Crisis,” his mother had been offered a scholarship in 1970 to complete a graduate degree in nuclear physics at LSU.

Police: IED Found Near Chester Train Tracks  —  CHESTER, Pa. (CBS) - Chester police are urging vigilance after they found an improvised explosive device, this afternoon, near Amtrak and Septa railroad tracks and the Commodore Barry Bridge.  —  Police say the device consisted of two bottles with a yellow liquid inside.

You Call That Tough?  —  The only thing missing from Preet Bharara's press conference was the blaring of trumpets.  —  It was Tuesday, and the U.S. attorney in Manhattan was proudly unveiling a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank that his office had filed that morning.

More U.S. Oil Drilling Won't Lower Gas Prices, Experts Say … WASHINGTON — Republicans used the politically potent argument about the cost of gas Thursday to pass a bill expanding offshore oil and gas exploration.  But analysts say there's a major flaw in their case: More drilling will barely budge prices.