Chuck Hagel News

The new entertainment district - Nebraska's first - will be situated across the street from the new Pinnacle Bank Arena in the west Haymarket area.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is making his first trip back to Nebraska for a speech at his alma mater, the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Danielle Powell, who was kicked out a semester before graduation, says the university has denied release of her transcripts, preventing from her enrolling elsewhere.

That's not an editorial position. There really are people saying the Obama administration should declassify more information about the intelligence community's phone and Internet dragnets.

The government's massive collection of Americans' phone records is drawing protests and lawsuits from civil liberties groups, but major legal obstacles stand in the way.

In a major second-term foreign policy shuffle, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will announce that Susan Rice, his U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will take over from Tom Donilon as his national security adviser, a White House official said.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel gets a tour of the USS Freedom from Navy Cmdr. Timothy Wilke.

In this Jan. 31 file photo, Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., questions President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., during his Capitol Hill confirmation hearing.

Senate Armed Services Committee members Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., questions former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's choice for defense secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Hagel's nomination.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is coming back to Nebraska for the first time since he was nominated for the high-level post early this year.

WASHINGTON >> President Barack Obama's defiant selection of Susan Rice as his new national security adviser Wednesday underscored the newly assertive approach he has taken to appointments ever since he abandoned a potential cabinet nominee named Susan Rice.

When the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the U.S. military's sexual assault crisis, lawmakers grilled Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine officials on the alarmingly high number of rapes and other sexual abuses in their ranks.

In recent days, after a month of civil and productive work, the Judiciary Committee approved a comprehensive, bipartisan plan to fix the nation's broken immigration system.

FILE – In this May 17, 2013 file photo Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen.

In the early 20th century, David Abbott hosted some of the world's most famous magicians -- Harry Houdini, Harry Kellar and Han Ping Chien, among them -- at his midtown home, wowing them with his own tricks.

James Comey, 52, is President Barack Obama's choice to become the next FBI director.

A funny thing happened on the way to a predicted disaster: The Pentagon is learning to live with the automatic budget cuts its leaders had warned would threaten national security.

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel listens to the opening address at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Shangri-la Dialogue, in Singapore, Friday, May 31 SINGAPORE - US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered a two-pronged message to Beijing - holding out hope for a slowly improving military relationship while issuing a stern warning ... (more)

Republicans said Thursday they see no major obstacles to Senate confirmation of James Comey , the former deputy attorney general in the Bush administration who is expected to be nominated by President Barack Obama as the next FBI director.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will meet with members of a Chinese delegation this weekend and likely talk about ongoing cyberthreats amid new reports that China used computer-based attacks to access data from dozens of Pentagon weapons programs and other defense technologies.