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Thousands carry flag-draped coffins, 'Indict Bush' signs in DC protest on Iraq war anniversary. Thousands are protesting in the nation's capital on the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, carrying signs reading "Indict Bush Now" and flag-draped cardboard coffins.

Passage of President Barack Obama's historic health care bill would "pretty much kill" chances for a sweeping immigration overhaul this year, a Republican senator warned Friday.

The US military in 2008 shut down a website set up by the CIA and Saudi Arabia to expose terror plots, angering both parties, who saw the site as a vital intelligence tool, the Washington Post reported Friday.

The US military in 2008 shut down a website set up by the CIA and Saudi Arabia to expose terror plots, angering both parties, who saw the site as a vital intelligence tool, the Washington Post reported Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under pressure to keep a campaign promise to revamp U.S. immigration policy, embraced a "promising, bipartisan framework" on Thursday offered by two senior senators.

Two gay service members arrested Thursday outside the White House pleaded not guilty in DC Superior Court Friday . Two gay service members arrested Thursday outside the White House pleaded not guilty in DC Superior Court Friday. Army Lt. Dan Choi, one of the most visible opponents of ?don't ask, don't tell,? along with Capt. James E. Pietrangelo were arrested by Park Police after the men handcuffed themselves to the White House fence in protest of the policy which bans gay and lesbian service members from revealing their sexual orientation at the risk of being fired. Choi, 29, was discharged from the Army under the policy last year after he announced he was gay on MSNBC's 'The Rachel Maddow Show'. He is currently appealing the Army's decision. Pietrangelo, 44, of Sandusky, Ohio, was discharged in 2004. Speaking at a DC event hosted by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest gay rights advocate, Choi called on the crowd to join him in delivering a message to the president.

Two senators Thursday outlined a bipartisan framework for comprehensive immigration reform legislation, drawing immediate praise from President Barack Obama.

An Al-Qaeda figure who helped plan a deadly attack on the CIA in Afghanistan is believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan, a US counterterrorism official said.

An Al-Qaeda figure who helped plan a deadly attack on the CIA in Afghanistan is believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan, a US counter-terrorism official has told AFP.

An Al-Qaeda figure who helped plan a deadly attack on the CIA in Afghanistan is believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan, a US counterterrorism official said.

An Al-Qaeda figure who helped plan a deadly attack on the CIA in Afghanistan is believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan, a US counterterrorism official said.

An Al-Qaeda figure who helped plan a deadly attack on the CIA in Afghanistan is believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan, a US counterterrorism official said.

Senior official: al-Qaida leader linked to bombing of CIA post believed killed in US strike. An al-Qaida leader believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan last December was apparently killed by an American missile strike last week, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.

American terror suspects living in average US communities show challenge of homegrown problem. The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street. The terror cases that have emerged in the past week have one common characteristic: The suspects are all Americans.

Obama spars with Fox News anchor during interview punctuated by interruptions and chiding. President Barack Obama on Wednesday took to the Fox News Channel, derided by his White House as a wing of the Republican Party, to sell his embattled health care overhaul in an interview punctuated with interruptions from the host and chiding from the guest.

An Al-Qaeda figure who helped plan a deadly attack on the CIA in Afghanistan is believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan, a US counterterrorism official said Wednesday.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday took to the Fox News Channel, derided by his White House as a wing of the Republican Party, to sell his embattled health care overhaul in an interview punctuated with interruptions from the host and chiding from the guest.

SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - One of the most important trade routes in Asia was closed last week while a boyish-looking man everyone calls "the general" showed around the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike in Pakistan last week appears to have killed a top al Qaeda planner who Washington believes helped organize December's deadly suicide bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

A key Al-Qaeda figure, Hussein al-Yemeni, involved in a recent attack on the CIA in Afghanistan, apparently has been killed in Pakistan, a US counterterrorism official told AFP Wednesday.