AP - A Defense Department analyst and a former engineer for Boeing Co. were accused Monday in separate spy cases with helping deliver military secrets to the Chinese government, the Justice Department said.
AP - Against overwhelming odds, Mike Huckabee keeps brushing off calls to drop his presidential bid for the good of the Republican Party. The former Arkansas governor and ordained Baptist minister is following in the footsteps of past spoilers such as Republican Ronald Reagan in 1976 and Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in 1980, who both pressed uphill primary challenges to the limits.
AP - The Pentagon has charged six detainees at Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. Officials said Monday they'll seek the death penalty in what would be the first capital trials under the terrorism-era military tribunal system.
The U.S. military is seriously deficient in meeting "the threat of Islamist insurgencies," says a Pentagon-commissioned study released Monday. The Rand Corp. report characterizes "U.S. military intervention and occupation in the Muslim world" as "at best inadequate, at worst counter-productive." The Pentagon asked the nonprofit research organization to review strategies to thwart insurgents.
Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are neck-and-neck in the battle for delegates. Clinton holds a narrow 27-delegate lead over Obama -- 1,148 to 1,121. That margin includes Clinton's share of "superdelegates," the almost 800 Democratic party leaders who also will vote at the convention this summer. Without the superdelegates, Clinton would trail Obama.