Obama: Americans can’t wait for Afghanistan to be ‘perfect’

President Barack Obama on Monday acknowledged "risks" in his decision to withdraw U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 but said war-weary Americans can't wait for that strife-torn country to be "perfect." "I don't think that there is ...

Obama: Bain attacks ‘not a distraction’

Targeting Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital "is what this campaign is going to be about," he says.

Landmark deal will end the Afghan War for the West

NATO leaders sealed a landmark agreement on Monday to hand control of Afghanistan over to its own security forces by the middle of next year, putting the Western alliance on an "irreversible" path out of an unpopular, decade-long war.

Say what? The odyssey of Kraft’s new name

The sarcasm was palpable in the one-word headline that appeared in The New York Post on the day after Kraft Foods revealed that it planned to name its new global snack business "Mondelez," an interpretation of a mash-up of the Latin words for "world" a...

‘I ? NY’ artist arrested for ‘planting bombs’ in Brooklyn

An artist who installed illuminated plastic shopping bags emblazoned with the "I  ? NY" logo on lampposts in Brooklyn was arrested over the weekend, charged with "planting false bombs" and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation. Takeshi Miyak...