Obama Maintains Confidence in Embattled Treasury Secretary Amid AIG Questions

President Barack Obama has full confidence in Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, now under scrutiny for e-mails that suggest the Federal Reserve Bank of New York pressured the bailed-out American International Group to conceal information.

Economy Loses 85K Jobs as Employers Remain Wary

Lack of confidence in the economic recovery led employers to shed a more-than-expected 85,000 net jobs in December even as the unemployment rate held at 10 percent. The rate would have been higher if more people had been looking for work instead of leaving the labor force because they can't find jobs.

Obama’s Interpol Order Won’t Send ‘Blue Bereted Officers’ Onto American Streets, Expert Says

Mind-Reading Systems Could Change Air Security, AP Reports

As far-fetched as it sounds, systems that aim to get inside an evil-doer's head are among the proposals floated by security experts thinking beyond the X-ray machines and metal detectors used on millions of passengers and bags each year.

Obama Administration Underestimated the Immediate Threat Posed by ‘Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’

President Obama and his White House counterterrorism adviser on Thursday accepted responsibility for attempted terror attack on Christmas Day that could have knocked an airliner out of the sky over Michigan.