"They are not al Qaeda, they are not extremists,” McCain said after meeting Syrian rebels.

Rep. George Miller (Calif.) just returned from a lengthy trip examining Bangladesh's garment industry with a damning verdict.

House Intelligence Chairman Rogers has accused China of waging a sweeping cyber espionage campaign against American companies and the government.

The president is under pressure from both supporters and critics to announce the size of the U.S. force after 2014.

The U.S. Embassy urged caution at the pyramids in Giza because of a "lack of visible security or police" there.

Defense secretary urged China to work with the United States to establish "international norms of responsible behavior in cyberspace."

"We're not reinventing the wheel here," TransCanada Corp. CEO Russ Girling said of the controversial pipeline.

The Obama administration is taking action against a number of companies around the globe that have helped the Iranian government evade sanctions.

The State and Treasury Departments are targeting a company based in Cyprus and the Ukraine that has concealed oil transactions with Iran as well as an aircraft procurement network that has done business with the country's airlines.

Federal officials claim that, to avoid detection and evade sanctions, the Ukrainian and Cypriot company took part in a scheme to transfer crude oil between three ships, the first of which was owned by Iran's government tanker company. The company also faked documentation to claim that the oil was from Iraq.

The Obama administration said Friday it remains “concerned” with a proposed civil society Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi sent to the Shura Council for review.

Critics say the law would enable government security agencies to restrict the activities of civil society groups and starve them of funding. Morsi's democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood government has been accused of emulating the restrictions on political freedoms that were in place under the authoritarian rule of Hosni Mubarak.

“The United States believes the proposed law is likely to impede Egyptians’ ability to form civic groups that are critical to advancing freedoms, supporting democracy, and acting as appropriate checks on the government,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement Friday. “As the Shura Council reviews the draft legislation, we urge further consultations with civil society and revisions to ensure the law respects universal human rights, empowers civil society to play its legitimate role, and responds to the Egyptian people’s aspirations for democracy as guaranteed specifically in Egypt’s new constitution.”