The FBI, in a rare response to rampant rumors on the Internet, said it is not investigating Alaska Gov. Sara Palin on public corruption charges. "Normally, we don't confirm or deny those kind of allegations out there. But, by not doing so, it just casts her in a very bad light," said FBI Special Agent Eric Gonzalez, who confirmed for CNN the statement he made to the Anchorage Daily News. "There is just no truth to those rumors ...

The United States is launching a diplomatic effort to get North Korean nuclear talks back on the rails. Stephen Bosworth, tapped by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to take the lead on North Korea policy, leaves Washington Wednesday on a weeklong swing through Asia. He'll visit China, South Korea, Japan and Russia -- the other members of the so-called six-party talks. Bosworth is not scheduled to visit North Korea. "There are no plans for that delegation to travel to North ...

President Obama urged nations Sunday to get rid of nuclear weapons, saying that the U.S. is committed to reducing nuclear stocks within the next four years. "Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous legacies of the Cold War," Obama said in a speech in front of a huge crowd outside the medieval Prague Castle in the Czech Republic. "The U.S. will take concrete steps. ... We will begin the work of reducing our arsenals and stockpiles." The president, who was on ...